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Just goes to show you CDMA is superior

Dogism

Sep 8, 2008, 10:01 AM
Why bother polling att and teenmobile we all know they blow!
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knx2

Sep 8, 2008, 10:12 AM
Agreed. I wonder how LTE is going to fair being gsm based...
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CDMA2

Sep 8, 2008, 10:16 AM
Agreed. I've tried AT&T. Had T-Mobile for 1 year. Not Sprint. I always come back to Verizon. I've had Verizon since 2005. Look at a coverage map of rural America. Verizon has the BEST coverage of ALL providers!
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jfjhong

Sep 8, 2008, 10:32 AM
Indeed, CDMA call quality is by far the best. I hope LTE and WiMax are as good.....
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stinkercole

Sep 8, 2008, 11:14 AM
CDMA is awesome, I would love to see At&t try to come back with the slogan "fewest dropped calls" more like the most dropped calls
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durkadurkha

Sep 8, 2008, 3:32 PM
I didn't see anywhere in the list that AT&T had the most dropped calls... there is a difference between call quality and the ability to hold a call.
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Slammer

Sep 8, 2008, 4:47 PM
actually it does explain in the beginning how they conducted the test and dropped calls was one of them. At&t was not mentioned. but in fairness, no carrier under the #1 ranking was.
Unfortunately the historical aspects of GSM have been plagued with the dropped calls right along because of the narrow bandwith. That's why CDMA "was" pushed to be the world standard. It's the newer technology and capable of so much more. But thanks to a little thing called the sim chip, the world will be robbed of superior technology. I again will propose the question on how Verizon will fair once they migrate to GSM.
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BigShowJB

Sep 8, 2008, 4:58 PM
if you click on the link, it will show each region and there you can see the ranking of the big 5 (six for USC regions) an ATT got about average (3/5) in the mid-atlantic and northeast and 'the rest' (2/5) in all the others.the big thing keeping ATT on top of the subscriber list is marketing, and customer service.
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GeekBro

Sep 8, 2008, 7:42 PM
CDMA is not the superior technology, the advantage of CDMA is that the signal can be transferred further, therefore requiring fewer towers. GSM and CDMA has the same sound quality but you need more towers to transmit the GSM signal. CDMA has a smaller bandwidth and less growth potential than WCDMA which operates UMTS, HSDPA and HSUPA which have much better bandwidth and can handle voice and data at the same time.
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Slammer

Sep 9, 2008, 9:02 AM
The GSM vs CDMA war has been around for years. In order to determine which is technically the better, you have to read the history on both and I highly advise that you do. I am not a young kid only interested in swaping and unlocking phones. I have been a cellphone user since 1984 and am into the technical advances of the wireless industry. GSM has the threshold or "footprint" in the industry because it was developed years before CDMA. GSM was developed in Europe to eliminate any segregation of the frequencies being used for different countries. This would allow for a unified system so no matter where you went, your phone could be used. The commission would deem it "The newest technology for global standardization". So GSM was born. It prov...
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mr_sparkle

Sep 8, 2008, 12:22 PM
CDMA2 said:
Look at a coverage map of rural America. Verizon has the BEST coverage of ALL providers!


and we all know that the carriers don't lie on those maps
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BigShowJB

Sep 8, 2008, 4:50 PM
vzw also makes no distinction between home and roaming coverage on the maps....Their phones (mostly) work in the roaming areas, so it's not really a lie, but nowhere near the truth either
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BigShowJB

Sep 8, 2008, 4:53 PM
You say you haven't tried sprint yet, so when your current contract is up w/ VZW try sprint for a 30-day trial. you might be surprised... 👀
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GeekBro

Sep 8, 2008, 7:45 PM
Save yourself the trouble, I give Sprint two years before there number is up. You can not lose 1,000,000 a quarter and continue to do business.
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BigShowJB

Sep 8, 2008, 8:02 PM
three things to answer that and then I'll be done (maybe)

well, sprint's ratings on that survey are higher than they were last year. The real survey I'm waiting for is the customer satisfaction survey. I am not expecting sprint to be out of the cellar on that one, but I do expect some improvement.

If you've never tried sprint yourself, you only have someone elses opinion to go on.

Trying sprint for 30 days or even just 2 weeks isn't going to kill you that much is it? you'll be paying for cell service that month anyway, so give it a shot. you can get on a 900 minute plan that includes text and data for only $90. if you don't need the data or text, it's $70 for 900 + unlimited text and $60 for 900 minutes. Get what ever phone fi...
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GeekBro

Sep 8, 2008, 10:40 PM
I had Sprint for 7 years, my wife lost her phone, we were not under contract. I called Sprint, waited for 30 minutes to speak to a rep, the rep told me that the only way I could get a new phone is with a new number. To make a long story short, she told me no, she refused to let me speak to a manager, she refused to transfer me to cancellation. I immediately after that call, phoned Cingular and a week later when I had time to wait again, called and canceled.
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BigShowJB

Sep 9, 2008, 2:47 PM
well if you only got one opinion on what to do, then I cvan no longer help you with that...you should have called again or went to a store, because if you knew so much that that rep was wrong (and she was) you should have gone to a store or a different rep
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ElTriste

Sep 8, 2008, 8:16 PM
Someone stated above that ATT is the largest carrier because of marketing and customer service, not thier service. 3G is nice, but I've used both ATT and sprints laptop cards, and sprint is way faster, and as far as mobile web, I buffer media on my centro (only rev O) faster then our blackjack II. Maybe it's a stockton thing, but sprint performs here flawlessly, and I've had quite a few att customers less then pleased with the actual service. It's all about marketing, and even more about word of mouth. Sprints is tanking because people simply hate on sprint. I've had them for 4 years, and honestly, I couldn't afford verizon or ATT (or even get credit) and Tmo just seemed too teeny bopper to me. Sprint had a area wide unlimited for 55 a month...
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miacol

Sep 8, 2008, 2:30 PM
I think LTE is being forced on Verizon by Vodafone, they have been wanting to move Verizon to be able to directly compete with AT&T as an international carrier from the US and the CEO of Vodafone wants to be able to roam on the Verizon network when in the US and not onto the ATT or T-Mobile network.
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Slammer

Sep 8, 2008, 11:13 AM
I agree with you on CDMA being better. Its the newer technology, its been proven, its dependable, there is less dropped calls, call quality is better, Data is transferred faster and easier and most importantly its more secure. CDMA is also expandable in the ability to build on it. GSM is limited. CDMA will perform the same applications better because of its bandwith. It is unfortunate in todays wireless world that people would sacrifice all this just to have a phone with a removable card.

I must disagree with your comment on Tmo and AT&T. There is a difference between Blow and Suck. 😁
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New_2_T-Mobile

Sep 8, 2008, 12:55 PM
So true it has been my experience that GSM truly sucks
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miacol

Sep 8, 2008, 2:10 PM
You are correct CDMA is superior, but it's not a world standard. Unfortunately I can not take a Verizon/Sprint Phone and be in Paris tomorrow, Tokyo the next day, Sao Paolo for the weekend, and back home for Monday work.

Who can ATT and T-Mobile. Well know that Vodafone (45% owner of Verizon) is forcing Verizon to have international phones, maybe they will move to GSM.
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adilus

Sep 8, 2008, 2:38 PM
miacol said:
You are correct CDMA is superior, but it's not a world standard. Unfortunately I can not take a Verizon/Sprint Phone and be in Paris tomorrow, Tokyo the next day, Sao Paolo for the weekend, and back home for Monday work.

Who can ATT and T-Mobile. Well know that Vodafone (45% owner of Verizon) is forcing Verizon to have international phones, maybe they will move to GSM.


Too bad you can't do that with AT&T either unless you have a quad band phone, and even then you're service maybe marginal.

Paris: 800 Mhz
Tokyo: 2200 Mhz
Sao Paulo: 450 Mhz

I am English and travel extensively and I keep my Verizon Wireless phone for the US, my Vodofone Espana for Europe and if I traveled to Tokyo...
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miacol

Sep 8, 2008, 3:05 PM
I travel with my ATT phone to all the countries I mentioned and I have never had an issue. I suggest you check GSMWorld, because I'm not sure where you got your information

France is 900/1800
Japan is 3G 1700/2100
Sao Paulo is 900/1800 and 3G 850

Espana (Spain) is 900/1800 and 3G 2100
Chile is 1900 and 3G 1900

So all my ATT phones work fine in all the counties mentioned above. If you are having a problems with your handset I would recommend that you have it replaced.
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GeekBro

Sep 8, 2008, 7:49 PM
Since the 3G iPhone, AT&T Tilt, BlackJack 2, Palm Treo 750, and the soon to be released BlackBerry Bold cover all of those frequencies, I don't think it will be a problem.
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Tmo Slave

Sep 8, 2008, 4:09 PM
Yeah because over paying for the same plan is so much better. 😉 If you want to be a verizon fanboy then go to their forums. Verizon is good but way over priced and their coverage is no better than everyone else.
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willv

Sep 8, 2008, 4:13 PM
i would rather be a vzw fanboy then a tmobile slave lol. how is that 3g reception workin for ya lol, oh wait. i guess thats only if your in one of a few cities.

dont hate on vzw because your stuck with tmobile.
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BROWN27

Sep 8, 2008, 4:28 PM
Tmo Slave said:
and their coverage is no better than everyone else.


🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 really so tmobile has just as much coverage?
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BigShowJB

Sep 8, 2008, 5:02 PM
I'll take Sprint's coverage over t-mo's anyday...I've had t-mo, ATT and sprint. sofar, sprint's coverage is blowing away the gsm carriers and I have less dropped calls w/ sprint in the last 15 mosnths combined as I would get in 1 month on gsm
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Windsponge

Sep 9, 2008, 1:22 PM
you must live somewhere I dont . Dont even have sprint in my area and Att is best by far over others.
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BigShowJB

Sep 9, 2008, 2:50 PM
where do you live? here in mid michigan it's the exact opposite. ther is no t-mo coverage at all and sprint's coverage just surpassed everyone else in our market overall, and next year sprint's coverage should eclipse everyone else statewide
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Slammer

Sep 9, 2008, 4:07 PM
Where do you live? I would like to know more about the expanded coverage next year in your area as I am a huge Sprint guy. Could this be a WiMax launch?
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Mark_S

Sep 9, 2008, 2:03 PM
This is CDMA just in the U.S. I have seen SIM cards for CDMA phones in China. does not necessarily mean better service
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