schlittertex said:
Ghandi would also say people who give away cruddy phones for free with a purchase of a pizza, shall not cast the first stone...or something like that, I think I saw it in the bible once.

that's awesome. ghandi finally made it to the bible... preaching about cell phones. whoo whoo 🤣

There are actually international bucket packages so you don't pay a per kb until you've gone over your roaming allowance.

But how difficult is it to get the package provisioned?

What stringent requirements are in place to be eligible for it?

90 days service in good standing, or passing a credit check by Cingular's international provisioning center. All in all, not that stringent.

So if someone see's this ad, walks into a cingular store and activates a aircard, they have to wait 90 days?

If the customer passes the credit check with flying colors they can add it same day if not they have to wait 90 days and have good payment history during that time. ie no non-pay suspensions or disconnects

So what exactly is "passing with flying colors"? I'm a little curious as to what the minimum credit score would be and so forth.

I do not remember it has been a little over a year since I worked for Cingular.

It's pretty sad that of all the flag waving cingular croonies on this site, the only one who attempts to answer is you. Thanks for your effort at deciphering cingulars policy.

I am not a Cingular croonie I hate them personally they fired me for some pretty dirty reasons, I am t-mobile and verizon wireless user. It is my pleasure to help you have a great day

Have Fun With your EDGE

whats that supposed to mean? Typical cingular fan boy attacks a person and shoot off therw mouth vefore they think. I will have 3G in less than a year it is worth the wait

Death to the evil empire AT&T

Wasn't it just a little while ago that VERIZON was the evil empire? 🤣 I worked for Verizon for almost 4 years when I blew in someone doing fraudulent activations but that was swept under the rug and I was inturn let go for "90 days of failure to attain quota" even though I was trending 137% quoata attainment for the year! Hmmmmm...sounds logical huh? 🤣

Its really easy. I had a customer activate a card with the international roaming for canada and mexico plan in a matter of minutes. It was as simple as activating the card and changing its plan.

Im an ATT sales rep, most of the stores have a Tv shwoing all the latest comercials and promotions, i sit here all day and listen to them. go to your local store and check it out

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Anxiovert said:
I just saw this commercial on which a guy with a Cingular aircard tells the Sprint guy that his aircard works worldwide! I loved the way he spun the globe! LOL Only to end it with the announcer saying that Cingular aircards work in MORE cities around the globe than Sprint's! I liked it! 👿

I have a silly question, and I don't care which one is faster. Why do you care that they say it works in more cities around the world, how many of you are going to be using your cell service or cell cards out of the country? Yes there are people that will but what percentage? I personally would prefer to be fastest, and again I

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crackberry said:

bs259 said:

Anxiovert said:
I just saw this commercial on which a guy with a Cingular aircard tells the Sprint guy that his aircard works worldwide! I loved the way he spun the globe! LOL Only to end it with the announcer saying that Cingular aircards work in MORE cities around the globe than Sprint's! I liked it! 👿

I have a silly question, and I don't care which one is faster. Why do you care that they say it works in more cities around the world, how many of you are going to be using your cell service or cell cards out of the country? Yes there are people that will but what percentage? I personally would pr

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well i usually buy the higher end phones, not PDA's though, last time i went to a cingular store to test services i was told they didn't have any active test units, this is in NYC (queens). Right then and there I was turned off to Cingular, The rep told me I could try service for 30 days and then cancel if i didn't like it, search my past posts for more info on this. Regardless the point I was trying to make is that don't be happy because of a commercial which says you can use your service in other countries when you probably will never or if you do have limited need outside the USA. One last thing, wouldn't the charges in foreign counties be very excessive? I never researched it but I would imagine they would be.

bs259 said:
well i usually buy the higher end phones, not PDA's though, last time i went to a cingular store to test services i was told they didn't have any active test units, this is in NYC (queens). Right then and there I was turned off to Cingular, The rep told me I could try service for 30 days and then cancel if i didn't like it, search my past posts for more info on this. Regardless the point I was trying to make is that don't be happy because of a commercial which says you can use your service in other countries when you probably will never or if you do have limited need outside the USA. One last thing, wouldn't the charges in foreign counties be very excessive? I never researched it but I would imagine they would

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Ok, thanks for the information, I need service with good PTT anyway, I wanted to test Cingulars PTT before I went back to nextel, not really the best service, but the hybrid phone is decent, any way I went into other cingular sites as well and these stores had active phones, but no active PTT phones, anyhow I found out that the service is ok, but not as fast as iden or as fast as Qchat will be, but who knows it isnt released yet.

bs259 said:
Ok, thanks for the information, I need service with good PTT anyway, I wanted to test Cingulars PTT before I went back to nextel, not really the best service, but the hybrid phone is decent, any way I went into other cingular sites as well and these stores had active phones, but no active PTT phones, anyhow I found out that the service is ok, but not as fast as iden or as fast as Qchat will be, but who knows it isnt released yet.

did you test it in the store or real world. the few seconds of inital contact in real world isn't really noticeable and after the connection we are faster than iden.

From what I remember the initial connection speed was like 10 seconds and the latency from person talking to the time person heard them was about 1 to 3 seconds, that is nowhere as fast as a nextel, again now that i have a 2 year contract and I paid a termination fee to leave verizon, i have no plan to pay another term fee, If everything qualcomm is saying is true Qchat will be faster than iden, initial connection will be possibly a little slower from what I read Nextel is .92 of a second (not sure of this number it might be less I read it somewhere 2 weeks ago) and Qhat is under a second, is there a difference there? Qchat is supposed to be faster in the latency from the time person talks to the person on the other end hearing them and that...
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Cingular's PTT is faster in-call with lower latency than iDen. It's reasonable to believe when you understand that Cingular's PTT platform is essentially a half-duplex voice call.

jjgreene said:
surprised no one else has brought this up.....Sprint wont compare apples to apples......they compare our edge network to their EV-DO, where as the UMTS(HSDPA) would be the appropriate comparison, the UMTS is currently slightly faster, and will be upgraded twice this year, first doubling the current speed, then quad.. from the current download speeds....that not heading into the 2008 expectations.....and it seems like in the near future(2009) EDGE will have a software upgrade available which will provide pretty much a blanket of broadband coverage over the country and throughout the world...

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well i know yuou say you don't care but your bringing it up....sprint is not faster, they have never and will never say they are faster than cingular, sprint says they're faster than cingy's edge network, not faster than their 3G network....

Wimax is great will take a long time to get it deployed, cingy should have HSPA+ in '08 which will yield 28Mbps down and 11 Mbps up.....how much more speed will you need come that time, and will also offer broadband overage pretty much anywhere in the country where as sprint will only be in major cities.

I will say it again I dont care about the speed issue , my point was the premise of this we work in more countries is pretty much a non issue for most americans. Also if what i read was wrong or I didn't understand it properly I appologize, what is faster anyhow wimax or HSPA? also as I said as technology gets better these will probably be considered slow in a couple of years.

HSPA+ yields 28 Mbps, Wimax has a theoritical speed of i believe 60-70, from what i've read you'll prob experience around 30 Mbps....Wimax will be faster, but will take quite a while they try and work out the system, they are leading the way in this technology so they'll prob encounter numerous problems while deploying it....HSPA+ will be available next year for cingy to deploy, it's basically an add-on to existing systems,

Well for one, Cingular doesnt disable Bluetooth file transfers. If you geta bluetooth phone, you can make your own ringtone & transfer them to your phone (provided you have a bluetooth adapter for your pc). Second, the handsets are WAY cooler. GSM phones in general are better designed. Verizon limits their handset & seems to lag behind the competition sometimes. And Verizon like to nickel & dime you to death. Cingular does it too, as well as other carriers, but not nearly as bad as VZW. Plus, I have heard & seen that Cingular is just better. My friends sometimes have issues, where I dont.

Ah, the nickels... how we love them.

I'd check the local area, because honestly we suck in some areas. Not every company is great everywhere. I've always been on GSM phones. I had T-mo back in the day, then switched to Cingy. My friends were on Sprint and Verizon, because they were older and what was around here back in the day. Over time, they all switched to Cingy (except for the one that works for Verizon and only pays $20 a month for 2 phone lines, but he's the cheapest guy I know).

I'm most excited about uVerse services. This wireless world is getting more and more connected.

actually cingular does have a few phones that do not have obex echange profiles.

Not many tho... And usually those who dont have the protocol simply dont offer it, like Crackberrys & HTC. You can see why tho- Viruses. A typical virus is more capable of screwing up a PDA than just your typical handset.

I just switched from Cingular/AT&T to Verizon. Sooo much better in my area. I had more bars in more places with Cingular... but phone said "SEARCHING FOR NETWORK" at the same time.

Now we have one phone (v551) that still remains Cingular/AT&T and I tried to bluetooth my favorite ringtone to my new phone. No go. Says it found me (v385), but then v551 just goes dead. Are you saying Cingular doesn't lock out Verizon bluetooth? Then what gives?

if you get your ringtone from media net the phone will lock it to prevent you from doing just that. however, if you made your own ringtone (which most of us do on AT&T) then you can share it with friends and stuff.

I did make my own, but I sent it thru a text (just ordered MPT). Is that my problem? It was locked when texted?

What gives with people bumping these old threads?

is that why my dog growls when i log onto myspace?

No, your dog just thinks your crotch smells like dog food.

Kibbles n Bits or Mighty Dog?

Moist and Meaty. Yum!