Radio Shack To Ditch Verizon for Cingular
Goodbye, old friend...
I've heard horror stories of Cingular in the past but not lately.
While change is good most of the time, I'm a little weary of how Cingular will stack up with their GSM coverage to VZW's.
I guess only time will tell if this was a wise move or not. I'm keeping my fingers crossed since 10 years is a long time if not.
Hoping we made the right move.
Sprint has been the first on far more stuff than Verizon.
But Sprint is starting to learn that being first isn't always the best.
Take a look at Verizon.. They ran to be the first CDMA carrier with PTT. IT SUCKED! Had TONS of problems. Sprint held off untill they were sure thiers would be more RELIABLE..
Verizon came out with EV-DO.. so what.. I bet it has lots of problems too, and was only available in a couple of markets. When Sprint fully launces it and actually starts PROMOTING it. It will work better than Verizon's and be active in a LOT more markets, if not Nationwide.
Look how long it took Verizon to adopt Unlimited Mobile to Mobile to someone who isn;t part fo your "Family Shar...
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Changing your ESN for *any* reason will reset this date.
Kupo.
Having the same esn for 12-23 months Gets you a $75 instant Rebate 24 + gets your a $150
Verizon give you $100 after 24 months.
I think Sprint's new rebate system is great!
Why do you need to change you phone every couple months?
And only activating a NEW esn resets your rebate eligabilty clock. Insurance replacements do NOT reset it either.
Just face up to it man. Verizon sucks!
Big Poppa said:
Your wrong on the Upgrade buddy. Re-Read my post.
Having the same esn for 12-23 months Gets you a $75 instant Rebate 24 + gets your a $150
Verizon give you $100 after 24 months.
I think Sprint's new rebate system is great!
Why do you need to change you phone every couple months?
And only activating a NEW esn resets your rebate eligabilty clock. Insurance replacements do NOT reset it either.
Just face up to it man. Verizon sucks!
The NE2 program that gives the $100 rebate for VZW is off of the new cotnract pricing of the phone, not the full retail price. If I'm not mistaken, is the discount through sprint off of the full retail price?
I can't go in specifics about what trouble they're having, I didn't bother to ask. It was just a discussion that came up over lunch, I hadn't seen him since I left AT&T about 3 years ago so we had a lot of ground to cover. All I can say that he was totally discouraged with how things were going with the project and was looking for any chance to get out.
And if he's going to work at T-Mobile, it most not be the technology, it must be a problem he had with Cingular management. Cingular and T-Mobile use the same technology (less Cingular's AMPS/TDMA assets, which are being phased out.)
That being said to my friend the technologies involded had very little to do with his decesion and more to how it was being developed. Yes, part of it was management. A lot of his old team are leaving or looking to leave , so much of the project will be delayed in just getting new developers on board.
No matter what, they both have advantages and disadvantages.
GSM has better voice quality, better hardware, more roaming, and a more advanced setup (such as forwarding, et al). GSM also has recognized the difference from when a call was submitted to when a call is connected, something that CDMA cannot currently do. GSM has the SIM which makes swapping phones easy and convenient. GSM has the IMEI, a serial-type number on the phone to help prevent fraudulent use if the phone is lost/stolen.
CDMA has better voice capacity, and can support voice and data in the same channel (but that does not mean it does...EV-DO is EVolution - Data Only, meaning it i...
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From all the studies ive looked into, CDMA is cheaper to run, sounds better and can have more people per tower. So GSM has more customers ....great!!!! u win the boobie prize.
DMvampiress said:In fact GSM was the first to actually work in that band here though Sprint likes to make people believe they are the first and only *all* digital carrier. GSM has been that since it came over here.
Actually you're right and Sprint is right. Sprint did build the first all digital network in the U.S and it was GSM.
http://www.cellular.co.za/news_1999/news-12281999_om ... »
For those of you behind firewalls here is the story:
"Dec 29 1999
Sprint announced today that it has sold its Global System for Mobile (GSM) communications wireless network infrastructure (formerly known as Sprint Spectrum) in the Washington/Baltimore area to Omnipoint Corporation. In the transacti...
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Cingular is doing just fine. Most of my activations are either Cingular or Sprint because they have more coverage than T-Mobile. Many ppl do like the fact that they can take their GSM phone out of the country and use their same phone # and phone. And prices for a GSM phone start at FREE. Where as with Verizon or Sprint u'd pay $400 just to have a GSM phone with them.
While a lot of Verizon customers do come in here at Sam's Club (We're inside Sam's CLub) They trully are blinded and do not see that Sprint has the largest coverage of an...
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