Cingular Changes Data Pricing
Expensive
miacol said:
U might get more data, but no service to go with it ๐ฒ ......
LOL you got that right. T-Mo's got more holes in their coverage than swiss cheese. Not only that, but when you factor in how cheap the data is, everyone and grandmother uses it. Including the kiddies with their sidekicks. You barely get EDGE or even GRPS speeds at all.
Cingular was smart in cities like NYC you need the 850 overlay to get by the skyscrappers and be able to provide service. That's why the purchased ATT Wireless (remember old Cingular use to run on T-Mobile in the NE). So now if your T-Mobile and have a Quad Based Phone u get good service because Cingular supports it, but if you have a tri-band phone (with no 850), you start ...
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T-Mobile - They have unlimited messaging, but they also have a sad network. As a current T-Mobile customer in Dallas, I fight often with the weakness of the network and I'm planning to switch to Cingular as soon as I can. What's the point of service if I can't maintain a conversation?
Sprint/Nextel - They do 100 messages for $5, 500 for $8 and unlimited for $15. Worse on the bottom end, better on the top end. Network is still mediocre.
Verizon - Verizon is the nearest competitor to Cingular as far as network is concerned. Their messaging prices are substantially worse - 500 messages for $9.99 or 2500 for $20.00 PLUS additional surcharges if you send to non-Verizon customers.
If you're looking purely for messaging and...
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I'd rather have more messages with no specified network rather than having to worry about it. Most folks I know aren't using Verizon.
Oh and there is no surcharge to send one of those 2500 messages to another carrier. The 2500 package for $20 gives you UNLIMITED VZW-VZW messages, as well as 2500 for any other carrier.
RShACkSUX said:
Furthermore, alot of those towers are overlapping. When Cingular bought AT&T, they got all thier towers...even if they had a tower next to another tower. Kind of useless if you ask me.
That was the purpose of network integration. Overlapping towers from each network were decommissioned and relocated in areas that needed better signal or a higher capacity. In a few short months when nationwide integration is complete, no tower on Cingular's network will "overlap" another.
youareretarded said:
WHOA! Wait a minute. Don't use Cingular's shady claim to have the least dropped calls. The leading independant research company is SBC -- the parent company of Cingular. That's like saying Bush's wife says he's doing a good job (dont open the door to a political thing here, it was the 1st thing that came to mind).
What are you talking about?! The independent research company is Telephia, which has no relation to SBC (AT&T). And furthermore, Verizon makes their claim to the most reliable network based upon their own drive tests. Now THAT is like Bush's wife saying he is doing a good job.
also, that independent study is GARBAGE... IMO, of course...
T-Mobile - They have unlimited messaging, but they also have a sad network. As a current T-Mobile customer in Dallas, I fight often with the weakness of the network and I'm planning to switch to Cingular as soon as I can. What's the point of service if I can't maintain a conversation?
the main reason that T-Mobile's network is so "sad" is that they oversell the heck out of it. Way too many people that should have cells are allowed onto T-Mobile. Using 8,000,000 night and weekends and mobile-mobile which kills the network.
Transient said:
Verizon - PLUS additional surcharges if you send to non-Verizon customers.
๐ณ Since when?
every time you sign a new contract, there are different terms that go along with it. most people don't bother to read the contracts. which is not the provider's fault (beit cingy, vzw, tmob, sprextel).
protege, stop bitching.. plain and simple... i would hope that you're educated enough to read a contract and terms of service....but apparently not, since you're complaining about something that you would have known about if you read your contract.
have a nice day
lets break that down the number of messages per day... lets say on average a person is awake from 7 am to 12am, give or take an hour or two either way... thats 17 hours in a day. multiply that by 30 days is 510 hours per month that a person is awake and texting. thats roughly 6 messages per hour that you can send or recieve. I would hope to god that you don't text message every hour...that you're productive enough to do something other that txting with your day.
when i had my employee line through cingy, i got unlimited text messages, and the most txts i had in a month were 3500...and thats only because my gf at the time didn't have the internet and her speak...
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IMs are counted as text messages and IM conversations are usually quicker than regular text messaging so believe me your text messages can waste in no time... even w/out being online for that long...
also, while mobile IM programs are a good alternative while you're at work, if someone wants to have a detailed conversation with you, maybe you should go to the restroom and call that person, as opposed to burning through all your texts...
perhaps i'm just being a stick in the mud here, but if something is that important, i'd just as soon talk to someone, rather than burning thought all those extra texts... granted, i go through about 2000 texts per month, most of them are split between 10 different people, most of which are things like "hunny, bring milk home" or "...
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https://www.cingular.com/media/media_net_purchase »
Media Max 29.99 is 1000, unlimted Web and unlimited Cingular Video and Media Max 19.99 is 200 messages, unlimited web, and unlimited video. Here is the link:
https://www.cingular.com/media/cingular_video_purchase »
Seems like an overall sweet deal.
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