I'm so slow... (Rollover)
I didn't know Rollover was on a rolling 12 months (for those slow as me, that means you dont lose your Rollover every ANNUAL 12 months or your ANNIVERSARY date, BUT that for ex. Nov 2004 rollover minutes wouldn't expire until Nov 2005, Dec 2004 rollover minutes wouldn't expire until Dec 2005) this is Awesome! Cingular your the CHAMP, why would anyone go with any other provider?????? 😁
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cingular77 said:
I didn't know Rollover was on a rolling 12 months (for those slow as me, that means you dont lose your Rollover every ANNUAL 12 months or your ANNIVERSARY date, BUT that for ex. Nov 2004 rollover minutes wouldn't expire until Nov 2005, Dec 2004 rollover minutes wouldn't expire until Dec 2005) this is Awesome! Cingular your the CHAMP, why would anyone go with any other provider?????? 😁
Data and Text Messaging are much cheaper with other carriers.
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That's true, but they are alos slower, wait till new Media Net 3.0 comes out, and 3g! 🙂
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EVDO is not alot slower than EDGE. Now, HSDPA will be faster than EVDO, but that is a little way away in my market.
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From my source at the Cingular owned kiosk here, they say that the "New" rollover minutes only last a month.
Say you get 100 min from january, they expire on march 1st. You get 100 min from february, they expire on april 1st.
Anyone confirm this?
Say you get 100 min from january, they expire on march 1st. You get 100 min from february, they expire on april 1st.
Anyone confirm this?
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false. The min. will continue rolling over just as they had done before. The only time your min are messed with is if you lets say for examole have 1 line with 3000 rollover min,and you want to add a 2nd line and go to the 700 ftplan then you would lose all but 700 of those accumilated rollover min. and they still expire after 1 year
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No, no. This is 100% a COR kiosk.
It's 100% owned and operated by cingular, not agents.
Thank you G-Rad for your explanation and correction. Now I know the truth!
It's 100% owned and operated by cingular, not agents.
Thank you G-Rad for your explanation and correction. Now I know the truth!
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No prob. I answer the same question 10-12 times a day. I got tired of people telling me i was lying so when we had the clients here(i work in a cingular call center) I had my om get one of them and i asked them. so my info came straight from the top.
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Also, rollover minutes don't mean much when you have 500 minutes and never go above 250....but 500 is the lowest plan they had at the time that made sense to me...now to upgrade, I'd have to get 700 or 800; I still won't use much more than about 250 minutes/month though. So even if I had rollover, I would never actually use it, so it isn't a draw at all.
The only time rollover makes sense is if you use your phone occasionally, but might when you use it, you use it a LOT. I use my phone nearly every day...but not a lot of minutes; mostly becuase of M2M minutes, mostly with my wife.
If you are always "on the bubble" for minutes, rollover might make sense, becuase you can take 50 minutes from last month, and apply them to this month...
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The only time rollover makes sense is if you use your phone occasionally, but might when you use it, you use it a LOT. I use my phone nearly every day...but not a lot of minutes; mostly becuase of M2M minutes, mostly with my wife.
If you are always "on the bubble" for minutes, rollover might make sense, becuase you can take 50 minutes from last month, and apply them to this month...
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mupi said:
...now to upgrade, I'd have to get 700 or 800; I still won't use much more than about 250 minutes/month though. So even if I had rollover, I would never actually use it, so it isn't a draw at all.
Are you talking about a family plan? On individual the lowest plan is 450 minutes. Also if you rarely do more than 25-20 messages a month the Cingular MEdia Basic for $9.99 would be just as good as sprint's power vision.
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Yes, I am talking about family plan. Actually, I went with the lowest plan that let me add a second line for $9.99.
I could have spent $49.99, plus $19 for the second line, or $59.99, plus $9.99. Plus I got 7pm nights at the $59 rate 🙂
Actually, Media Basic isn't as god as PowerVision, becuase 1) it doesn't have unlimited internet, it is limited to 1MB ( I currently have 2MB, and I regularly use more than 1). 2) even if it does, it isn't EV-DO, the best I will get is Edge, and 3) it doesn't have the TV features. Granted, I won't likely use it much as I don't relish the though of watching TV on a (less than) 2" screen, but it is something attractive to me in the "this is pretty cool" mode.
IN all honesty, I don't really need the ...
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I could have spent $49.99, plus $19 for the second line, or $59.99, plus $9.99. Plus I got 7pm nights at the $59 rate 🙂
Actually, Media Basic isn't as god as PowerVision, becuase 1) it doesn't have unlimited internet, it is limited to 1MB ( I currently have 2MB, and I regularly use more than 1). 2) even if it does, it isn't EV-DO, the best I will get is Edge, and 3) it doesn't have the TV features. Granted, I won't likely use it much as I don't relish the though of watching TV on a (less than) 2" screen, but it is something attractive to me in the "this is pretty cool" mode.
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I went because of the terrible reception in my area. It was a tough decision, but you have to make a choice on wireless providers. One that's a good company, or one that's going to PROVIDE service.
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Cingular your the CHAMP, why would anyone go with any other provider??????
Because Rollover is a marketing gimmick...nothing more. The vast majority of cellular users are nothing if not consistent about their minutes useage (i.e. either always staying under or always going over their minutes allowance...which comes down to qualifying the customer first but that's another rant for another day). What this comes down to are saved minutes that'll never get rolled over or minutes that don't exist to get rolled over.
I'm also pretty sure that Cingular won't buy back your unused minutes at the end of the year...
Because Rollover is a marketing gimmick...nothing more. The vast majority of cellular users are nothing if not consistent about their minutes useage (i.e. either always staying under or always going over their minutes allowance...which comes down to qualifying the customer first but that's another rant for another day). What this comes down to are saved minutes that'll never get rolled over or minutes that don't exist to get rolled over.
I'm also pretty sure that Cingular won't buy back your unused minutes at the end of the year...
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