anyone see the great cellular test on WBBM??
it was a report on wbbm chicago where they bought 7 prepaids, took people all around Chitown and tested for dropped calls and breakups...uscc rocked..sprint did so bad they had to issue a statement that same day....
http://cbs2chicago.com/special/local_story_309163624 ... »
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http://cbs2chicago.com/special/local_story_309163624 ... »
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Our regional manager forwarded it to everyone here. Now we just need some sweet phones, Jennifer Love Hewitt as our spokesperson and "Goodbye Cingular!"
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Nobody would ever have issues with USCC's network, just its attitude. USCC engineers are the best I have run into in my many years in the industry. The "wait and see" attitude of corporate is lame because even the GSM carriers are ahead of USCC in data. Easyedge is not even close to Sprint's Vision, or Verizon's Mobile Web.
Because of these things USCC in its rural markets is vulnerable to the upcoming intrusion of Verizon following the Qwest deal and the planned buildout of Sprint.
Because of these things USCC in its rural markets is vulnerable to the upcoming intrusion of Verizon following the Qwest deal and the planned buildout of Sprint.
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HA....it would take forever for sprint to cover this area, in Iowa they have towers only in certian places and that is the interstates....the hole 4 of them they have here. That would end up being roughly 5% of the state being covered now either they could blanket the area and go broke or it isn't happening.
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They are working on that right now. Don't be so smug. They offer what they call the America attachment on both Fair and Flexible and Free And Clear which allows up to 50% of the total minutes used to be used on other networks.
Nationwide they are putting up 2000 towers per year. At their current growth rate they will cover every Interstate and major US highway within 5 years. They are growing faster than the combined ATTWS/Cingular company and they are receiving revenue from Virgin Mobile, Qwest PCS and the future AT&T PCS customers using their network. They are also Verizon's preferred roaming partner which gives them a ton of roaming revenue. They will not go broke. In fact they are in a very good position at this time.
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Nationwide they are putting up 2000 towers per year. At their current growth rate they will cover every Interstate and major US highway within 5 years. They are growing faster than the combined ATTWS/Cingular company and they are receiving revenue from Virgin Mobile, Qwest PCS and the future AT&T PCS customers using their network. They are also Verizon's preferred roaming partner which gives them a ton of roaming revenue. They will not go broke. In fact they are in a very good position at this time.
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but sprint is sposed to be the big dog...theyve been around the longest, haven't undergone 3 name changes, and are supposed to have more resources..
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No, their band has only been authorized by the FCC since 1995. They and T-Mobile are actually the new kids on the block so to speak. There are many places in the country where Sprint's coverage is better than Verizon's. Mostly metro areas. Like all large carriers they build out where the customers are first and fill in the blanks later. USCC licenses are pretty much where the blanks are. When I worked for USCC our inside joke was that we covered all of the Northwest except where the people live. This makes USCC markets the last to have investments from carriers like Sprint, Verizon, Cingular and T-Mobile.
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untrue in the central region, can't be possible that the coverage isn't where the people are when it's in Chicago, Des Moines, Green Bay, Omaha, St. Louis, on and on.... USC does have investments from other carriers, verizon roams off of usc as I have friends that come out where we live and their on a usc tower then. It would be impossible for cingular and t-mobile to roam off of usc....ever hear of gsm?
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GSM is its own problem. No Roaming = No talking with GSM. If there is no GSM signal your phone cannot use analog it becomes a paperweight.
Still there are some who like it.
USCC is the largest rural carrier in the industry and has done a lot of good things. My only problem with them is they are definitely a "wait and see" company. All the other CDMA carriers will have EVDO or EVDV or some other VOIP product installed before USCC makes a deployment decision. In a major metro that could be costly. Especially if some of the new data products catch on which I think they will. For now cellular data is just for geeks like me but so was the internet a few years ago.
Still there are some who like it.
USCC is the largest rural carrier in the industry and has done a lot of good things. My only problem with them is they are definitely a "wait and see" company. All the other CDMA carriers will have EVDO or EVDV or some other VOIP product installed before USCC makes a deployment decision. In a major metro that could be costly. Especially if some of the new data products catch on which I think they will. For now cellular data is just for geeks like me but so was the internet a few years ago.
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Cool. We all know Sprint bites but T Mobile, Cingular and espescially Verizon will smoke youre lil US Cellular bung hole. Luckily Prime CO bailed. The only reason why Verizon wont smoke you now is because of the FCC. Uh, they smoked Howard Stern but hes moving to a 100 million contract to pay radio. OUT
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Tmobile....Nope....Cingular maybe, that means they would have to completly build a network here in Iowa though, as the AT%T network was very small, about the same size as sprints....the reason Tmobile can't do **** in Iowa is due to the fact that they are "Iwireless" here in Iowa. It's the little localy owned telephone companies banded together to make a cell phone company basicly. Problem there is that not every town has their own telephone company, some have quest. The local telephone company thing ends up being a good thing since they also banded together to serve small rural areas with high speed internet and digital cable...just makes you laugh that little telephone companies can do this but yet big Mediacom and other companies go br...
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Perhaps...but atleast US Cellular isn't giving our customers a "gimped" Motorola V710. US Cellular doesn't remove phone features just to take more money from customers. 😛
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Sprint Bites?
Their network is only the most advanced in the USA and close to the most advanced in the world.
USCC has only been able to send pictures for a few months while Sprint customers have been able to do it for 2 years. Sprint has built all of their coverage in less than 8 years while the incumbent cellular companies have had over 20 years. Cell site acquisition is often a multi year process. just ask your USCC people in Cal-1 and Cal-9 where the tree huggers have kept certain sites from being built for many years. I sell both Sprint and USCC and I prefer Sprint. Sprint installed 2000 new cell sites this year and will continue at that pace indefinitely In a few years coverage and call quality issues will be no different from carrie...
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Their network is only the most advanced in the USA and close to the most advanced in the world.
USCC has only been able to send pictures for a few months while Sprint customers have been able to do it for 2 years. Sprint has built all of their coverage in less than 8 years while the incumbent cellular companies have had over 20 years. Cell site acquisition is often a multi year process. just ask your USCC people in Cal-1 and Cal-9 where the tree huggers have kept certain sites from being built for many years. I sell both Sprint and USCC and I prefer Sprint. Sprint installed 2000 new cell sites this year and will continue at that pace indefinitely In a few years coverage and call quality issues will be no different from carrie...
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first of all ...uscc tests the features first, to strict tolereances before unleashing them on an unsuspecting public..which is why Uscc was the last to get picture messaging,,If in fact you are a local person who doesn't travel all over Uscc is the best deal going..also as far as TV?? la dee FREEEKIN da!!
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I was never saying that Sprint sucks, I was just simply saying that it will take them forever, sorry but more than 4 years, to build up a complete network here in Iowa. Oh, and adding a roaming package so you use other tower groups don't help all to much here, a friend of mine has that and still coverage is very poor, that and who would want that when you could only use half of your minutes where you live shop and do everything, theres many locations around here that are over a hour away from a interstate so it serves virtualy no purpose to spend that much money when US Cellular does better than any other company out there....(here in Iowa only)
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why is everyone on this forum having a cell phone company battle?? LOL The point of this topic was to say that CBS news did a test of all the cell phone companies in Chicago, and USCC came out either #1 or tied with Verizon in all categories. So.....there is really nothing that can be argued against that. Providers in other areas are irrelavent because the article was about CHICAGO so....whats all the fuss about?? Let's just eb honest with ourselves here...all service providers offer something thats better than the others, all of them also have things that really suck about them, so lets just leave it at that, and all of them are after YOUR money somehow, some way, so lets just leave it at that...and stop being such service provider cheerle...
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Most advanced in the world??? How the h*ll do you calculate that?
Of all the CDMA cariers here in the US, only Verizion offers a phone that has any hope of getting signal anywhere else in the world. I've not heard of Sprint trying to find a solution for that particular problem.
Also try not to forget that here in the Americas we are far far behind the rest of the world in cellphone usage and design.
Lastly, its not a "wait and see" attitude as you claim with so much fervor. It is a "Lets get this right the first time so we don't looks like a bunch of fools" attitude that causes some problems with all the testing, but keeps customer satisfaction higher because we don't have to re-release new features.
Of all the CDMA cariers here in the US, only Verizion offers a phone that has any hope of getting signal anywhere else in the world. I've not heard of Sprint trying to find a solution for that particular problem.
Also try not to forget that here in the Americas we are far far behind the rest of the world in cellphone usage and design.
Lastly, its not a "wait and see" attitude as you claim with so much fervor. It is a "Lets get this right the first time so we don't looks like a bunch of fools" attitude that causes some problems with all the testing, but keeps customer satisfaction higher because we don't have to re-release new features.
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