Sony Ericsson K550 / W610

Verizon is better than Cingular. Atleast Verizon has better coverage and call quality up to par with T-Mobile, compared with Cingular's lying "Fewest dropped calls" crap. Alot of people complain about Cingular's horrible service.

Hmmm....

Well, Verizon charges you up the wazooooo for anything you do... (hell, they charge you if you want to change ESNs...)

The reason a lot of people's calls drop on Cingular is because they have crappy phones. I have a Nokia 6682, and my call barely drops in San Diego, CA.

Rafster

That statement about people having crappy phone is bogus. Some of the phones Cingular sell all have the same issues. So blame Cingular. I have read that people even with high quality phones, are dropping calls. 🤣

no we're not! I can't even remember the last time I dropped a call.

It's because of the technology: GSM. It's largely based on TDMA (which is why Cingular and the old AT&T Wireless built a GSM network to upgrade from TDMA) which naturally cannot handle many calls at one time. GSM improves this, but it still is a problem. It's because the switches work by rotating time slots for each call every few minutes (this is where TDMA gets its name, Time Division Multiple Access).

And a dropped call is when the NETWORK cannot handle the call, not when you leave the service area. This is what confuses most people.

T-mobile doesn't have as many dropped calls as Cingular is probably due to Cingular being #1 in terms of the amount of customers (thats going to change when we buy Alltel 😈 ) so it has more peo...
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Why don't you just go and read about how GSM works please? The only one who seems to be confused here is you.

i have a 6682 also, best phone ever!

tmbold said:
i have a 6682 also, best phone ever!

Damn straight!!

Can you tell these people that it really does matter what phone you use as far as reception/dropped calls?

Do you drop often on your 6682?

Rafster

i never drop calls

rafster said:
(hell, they charge you if you want to change ESNs...)

Verizon should seriously consider adopting R-UIM cards (basically CDMA SIM cards). I have a PDA but I would not like to take it anywhere where it can get broken (because PDAs aren't very durable, pretty much one bad drop and it's done) and quickly switch R-UIMs. I guess I can do an online ESN change, but what about if I'm on vacation and want to use my PDA but when I go to the beach, use my old Audiovox 8910?


I say we start a petition.

As someone who had Verizon for a loooong time (bell atlantic)...I recently switched to T-Mobile and I can tell you that I am so much happier with T-mo than MacWireless. I just hated the direction vzw has been going, their customer service is plummetting, their pricing structures are insulting. T-mo's coverage and voice quality is actually better, if you can believe that, atleast where I am, right in the middle of NYC. Its not even close. I couldn't be happier that I left MacWireless.

MacWireless? What do you mean? Is that Mac, as in Macintosh computers? Please don't insult Apple like that! 😡

If you read the context of the post, you can see that "MacWireless" is my term for Verizon Wireless. Because they treat their customers like they're stupid. I love mac, its all I use.

You replied to me instead. Tell that to them. They love CDMA.