User: towermonkey
These are the most recent forum messages posted by towermonkey:
Re: motorola v400
nobio0 said:
i don't see where it says that the v400 is ptt cabable, but besides that it is a GSM only phone so it wouldn't be coming to sprint anyway.
*Amber*
you know what i went to moto web site and it said it have ptt.
http://commerce.motorola.com/consumer/Q Whtml/products/V400p.html
Ah. That would be the V400p. The original V400 is not PTT. That's where the confusion lies.
Re: Verizon and 7pm evenings???
mobile_guru said:
VZWCustServ said:
Hey, don't forget the free incoming calls. And about the long distance, the $.20 is for international long distance. Domestic long distance is free. In addition to that, VZW will PAY YOU $.05/min for any domestic calls you make within your area code.
We are also starting a $50.00 coverage guarentee. If you ever have a dropped call or no service anywhere in the world we will credit you $50.00/min for every minute you were ...
Re: Now I know why everybody hates AWS
One of the local VZW managers just came over from running an AT&T store, she's sharp & knows what the hell she's doing. When I met her, I asked her what was up with AT&T, and she told me that Chris Corrado singlehandedly destroyed AT&T worker morale.
Airprime 3220
If anybody out there has a PC3220 aircard & a laptop running Win98SE, I can clue you in on how to get it running. I recently had an experience with this combination, and getting it to work was not pretty.
It works now, but it took nearly a solid week of fiddling before I managed to get it together.
Re: Programming a Korean CDMA phone for Verizon w/ESN
This is true, but from what I remember, Korean CDMA uses different frequencies that US CDMA. I think CDMA800 is the only common freq.
Re: experience?: ENHANCED CUSTOMER SERVICE 101
Why would you want to do that?!? Asurion makes you fill out a police report if it's a lost/stolen situation. That's a right royal pain in the ass. Just put the damn phone in the little prepaid envelope they give you, mail it back.
Re: funny stories over the last few days?
Gotta love the bastards at Bell Labs. Evil, soulless men they are...
Actually, my grandmother had a rotary-dial phone leased from AT&T that she'd had ever since her & grampa built their house in the late '40s. I sat down with her & calculated exactly how much she'd spent in lease payments over the past 60 years... then took her to Target & bought her a nice push-button cordless phone, got her Touch-Tone service. You'd have thought I bought her ...
Re: first post!!!
So, then, the cretins in the V710 forum are creating a false sense of panic? Why does it seem to me that the V710 has been worse than usual with the delays & such?
Re: VZW data transfer services -your opinion?
Those Cellebrites aren't cheap, I think on the order of $1500 or so, but they work like a mofo, and if you're an indirect, co-op will pay for one. The thing is, the device itself has a limited number of uses, and the dealer has to pay to get it reset every so often. I did an informal poll of dealers in my area, and they do it free if you buy a new phone from them, but charge ...
Re: Costs when you cancel within 14 days
Yeah, I thought it was the same, too. I'm assuming that the bill Ducatiboy got was for the first months' service, and that they'll prorate it. I know VZW just makes you pay for airtime used, not the whole thing.
Re: Heres a question for you Verizon reps.
I'd guess they're pretty much equal, at least in terms of POPs covered. How does the Cingular plan match up price-wise with the NSR? I'm just curious. I personally like the NSR plan, we sell a bunch of 'em to truckers & the like. Not so good on the airtime, but hey, at least it works where you need it to.
Re: Tech Agent question on Possible Sales Job
Personally, I have NO idea why a tech would want to switch to sales (I'm in the process of moving in the opposite direction, heh), BUT...
I've worked for Radio Crack, Sprint & Verizon.
The 'Crack sucked donkeys. I hated the job, my idiot co-workers, my evil lying sack-of-**** boss, the customers, the junk I HAD to sell... I could go on ad nauseam.
Sprint was marginally better. At least I was dealing solely with phones. The customers were still pretty bad, ...
Re: Porting problems!
The only problem I've had is with Nextel ports. Every one I've done (about 10) has fallen out. The first few were my fault, because I wasn't clear on exactly what VZW needed from the Nextel customers, but then it seemed like they were all going to crap. I had one lady who it took almost 4 days for the port to finalize. At least she was cool about it. Cingular, AT&T & T-Mobile have been no problem. Centennial ...
Re: Porting problems!
dsmith5237 said:
Despite being able to keep their number, only about half of my customers coming from other carriers even want to keep the old number. Anyone else experience that?
Yeah, and it's more business customers than the other. I'm not really sure why that is. The business people I can understand, that way you don't have to contact all your old customers, get new business cards, etc. One person told me he wanted to change his number because he ...
Re: Funny stories in wireless
abbazabba said:
I'm still amazed at the number of people who "mash" the menu button, and can't pronounce nokia.
Nokio
Noo-kee-er
Nukiuh
The list goes on. I especially love it when people say, "Yeah, that Japanese company, Nokkier"
Makes my head hurt.
Re: experience?: ENHANCED CUSTOMER SERVICE 101
Word. In the past two years that I've worked for VZW, I've seen the non-program situation happen exactly three times. Twice, a local RAdio Smack employee forgot to program the handsets, and then the customer came to us to fix it, and then once I saw a fellow employee complete a sale, hand the customer the phone, and we both watched the customer walk out. Then I said, "DID you program that phone?" and my buddy ran out & ...
Re: Call Failed ¿?¿?
I know, it's a lot but it is verified. She has a Blackberry too, the girl is a certifiable cellular hoochie-mama. Pretty much the only time I've seen her without at least one phone pressed to her ear was when we were in New Orleans for some seminar that I slept through. She was still clicking away, sending text messages & working the Blackberry... brings multitasking to a whole new level.
Re: VZW and NE2 Troubles
Aha. I think you're right. I needed to look at that again.
One other thing that drives me nuts is that sometimes salespeople don't tell the customers that in order to get a NE2 on a secondary line, the secondary price plan must be $39.99 or higher. I've been seeing it more & more lately, people expect the NE2 on a $20 shareplan, and it's just not gonna happen, folks. You can get the 2-year pricing, but not the ...
Re: VZW and NE2 Troubles
Yeah, from what dd45acp said, I think he's definitely trying to scam the system. Sometimes you can get away with it, sometimes you get kicked in the balls.
I think there might be a problem with the way the NE2 date didn't get carried over properly, but that's what you get for trying to work the system that way. I'm not trying to be a jerk, but that's how it looks, and unless he can find some idiot CC ...
Re: This is how i Chose
Oops, sorry 'bout that. Speaking of phones as sex toys, there's a neat little app written by some Eurotrash that will make a particular Nokia GSM handset into a vibrator... Don't rmember where I saw it, but it's out there.
Re: This is how i Chose
I thought you were a Tmob/Cing guy, and here you are pimping VZW... I am shocked :D
Re: Call Failed ¿?¿?
I too live on my phone(s). Moto T720 (dead), Timeport 270, V60S, and I have a scraped-up VX6000 bumping around under all the crap on my desk.
Last month, between my VZW-issued handset & my personal phone, I burned 2100 peak & 3200 offpeak. Not a WHOLE lot, I know, but 1600 :o text messages is a lot. Slightly over 53 per day. Sick, isn't it? In 20 years, I'll have a brain tumor the size of a ...
Re: TREO 600 BEWARE!
You sure you racked up 2000 minutes in less than 24 hours? I just ask because according to my calculations, 24 hours X 60 minutes =1440 minutes... :D That's a neat trick. 8O
You might wanna call CC and have them add the $44.99 unlimited PDA feature to your calling plan. That way you get unlimited Nat'l Access & your voice minutes will be left alone.
It's an expensive fix, I think, unless you're a power user, and I'm ...
Re: Call Failed ¿?¿?
I'm not really sure what causes it. What it seems like to me is this: The phone is still streaming data (in my case, text message) to the tower. Since the phone will use the same channel to call, it has to wait until the channel is cleared of the text message before it can initiate the voice call. If you dial out before, the processor sees that the link is still in use & fails the call.
I did ...
Re: Best Phone / Worst Phone you have ever owned or used?
How's about the world-famous S/E T61, as envisioned by VZW??? Now THERE was a quality paperweight.
MD, pretty much any Sanyo phone was awesome. The 4500 was a bit squirrely, but the 4700/4900/4920 line has been really good.
Re: Call Failed ¿?¿?
Oh, OK. Like I said, sometimes it's hard to tell, especially in this particular forum. 8O
When I had a T720, your problem happened to me all the time. I am frequently talking on one handset while text-messaging on another, or talking on two handsets at once. I'm sure I'll have a tumor the size of a grapefruit in 20 years.
You're welcome, BTW. Glad I could be of service.
Re: Call Failed ¿?¿?
Really? Or are you being facetious? Hard to tell on these boards sometimes... :D
Re: Call Failed ¿?¿?
If your phone is completing a data session and you try to dial out, it will fail, also.
ie, send a text message, then dial a number. Boop boop boop, call failed.
Re: siemens
I'm your ice-cream man, stop me when I'm passing by...
I'm your ice-cream man, baby, stop me when I'm passing by...
All my flavors are guaranteed to satisfy.
David Lee Roth was so cool in the '80s, I wanted to be him when I grew up.
Have you seen him lately? I saw him this past weekend on VH1's "I love the '90s", and he looks like a crack-addled mental patient. Poor bastard.
Re: What’s wrong with bells and whistles?
Gotta love the Autocensor. :D
Re: Best Phone / Worst Phone you have ever owned or used?
Any of you guys that have worked for Sprint or Radio Smack -
Worst phone ever?
A little thing called the LG 1010. It came in 3 funderful colors, and none of the three worked worth a damn. Once, I had three in a row fail during activation, never to function again.
Best phone? I was always partial to the StarTac, in its various forms, and I have a Timeport 270 that I love.
I think it's funny how the name Motorola ...
Re: New Contract ?
In the Northeast corridor it might not be all that important to have a trimode, unless you were going waaaaaay out into the boonies, Deer Hunter-style. VZW was formed from NYNEX & Bell Atlantic Mobile, so they have all the old towers, plus a ton on new ones, I'm sure.
On phones, I can suggest a couple of things. From low-end to high-end, I suggest:
1. Nokia 3589i. Trimode, great signal strength. Durable - I sell these to a couple of ...
Re: Roll Call
There is undoubtedly a spot in Heaven waiting for you call-center guys. I can handle the few idiots I see every day, I can't imagine having to put up with rude jackasses all day long...
I know I'm a bit late, but yesterday I sold 2 Motorola V60S' & a Pay-As-You-Go. So far today I have a PC3220 Aircard in the bag, but I'd been waiting for a week for the guy to come get it. I was about to ...
Re: V60s Problem
The latest software (8610_02.0F.03) seems to work well. Make sure you have that release under Settings-Phone Status-Other Info-Software. The charging port thing is a running problem, it's not a very good design IMHO, almost as bad as the Nokia 5100 series with the adapter to hook a headset in...
Otherwise, it's a solid phone. I like it. My T720 died over the weekend, and I'm using a V60s & a Timeport 270c.
Best of luck.
Re: Phones that you can hear it ring through the Headset
The 6200 didn't. Old phone, though. Tough as nails.
Re: ummm...
muchdrama said:
Neither do I. While we all may be anxious to get our hands on them, I don't think all of us would necessarily condemn Motorola on the whole. I liked my t730 :) , but I happened to like the Nokia 3589 better (and man, I wouldn't mind that speaker phone on the v60s).
'Drama, it's awesome. Loud as hell. I had to replace my recently departed T720 with one that I happened to have kicking around, and ...
Re: experience?: ENHANCED CUSTOMER SERVICE 101
Nos4a2 said:
First things first: I've been in retail sales and management for over 15 years, but I just started with Go Wireless, an exclusive US Cellular agent, in November. I love this job, and I'm proud of what I do here on a daily basis. :)
I agree that common sense is sometimes in short supply, and I also agree that people who take ownership for their own actions are in equally short supply at times. ...
Re: Verizon (any new phones coming ??) LOL.......
Schweinhund!
Porsche is German. You must be thinking of Fiat, or Alfa Romeo, or Lancia. They make some... interesting cars. Ferrari makes some beautiful automobiles, IMO, especially the 360 Modena. Lambo is for hairy losers with tiny wieners.
Re: ummm...
Boo-ya! In your face, Space Coyote!
I nominate Rich as King of the Mountain... of course, this IS his website :)
Re: Satisfied?
Aitm908 said:
ok, im going to bet on August 10.. the reason its called 710 is because it shouldve been out this month on 7/10 but kept getting post-poned hahahah thats my conspiracy theory!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
August 31, it's official, that's what the voices in my head told me. :)
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