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Cingular imporvement

simplymarcus

Aug 18, 2004, 4:36 PM
In what area's do you think cingular needs to improve. I want to hear from everyone dealers techs customers. What areas do u think cingular needs to work on the most?
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disturbed1

Aug 18, 2004, 4:42 PM
I'd like to see some better training passed down from corporate to agent stores. I know it's a little much to ask, but I've even ran into an agent sales rep who I had to correct about features on a phone. The guy thought that the v600 had video capture on it and had been telling people that when he sold the phone. I wonder how many folks got home and tried to take a video and started thinkin their phone was defective. If that's what they know about the phones themselves it doesn't make me terribly confident about more complicated things like rate plans and MEdia packages.
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saiguanas

Aug 18, 2004, 5:39 PM
I'm a new customer but I've noticed a couple of things. Don't know if this is Cingular of Motorola but my v400 won't let me change the Cingular name to my name at the top of the screen or delete some of the sounds,pics,ss,wallpaper. Got my first bill and it is very vague as to the charges (online anyway). I was told not to go to Cingular by a few people because of there billing. I thought "hello?! Have you people ever been with another cellular company? They all make billing mistakes and have no 'complaint system'". If these are the only complaints I can come up with 2 years from now I'll consider myself lucky.
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RichLok

Aug 18, 2004, 6:53 PM
You can't remove the operator logo (Cingular) and some tones and graphics are locked so they can't be deleted, copied or sent. That's why I hate about carrier locked phones. The only bright side to that is that they sell them cheaper than unlocked, straight from the manufacturer phones.
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SammyJankis

Aug 18, 2004, 6:59 PM
coming from a former cingular insider. i would have to say that cingular needs to train their reps better. sales and customer service. as far as the service is concerned. cingular also doesn't do a very good job of informing customers of upcoming changes to the network. cingular gives almost no notification of major company changes that may cause customer problems. but there were times that the customers new stuff before we did, which goes back to the training issue.
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BEEPERDEPOT7

Aug 19, 2004, 12:13 AM
Cingular Wireless needs a huge Network improvement in New York. Especially in Suffolk County New York. I currently have a store location in which we are authorized dealer for Cingular Wirless. If I sold 20 Cingulars I would have 18 returns. This is no exageration. Cingular overall has a great program which includes rollover minutes in which no one else can offer and new handsets that are very eye apealing. But the bottom line is you can give a customer 10,000 minutes or 450 minutes it always comes down to you Coverage and Network. General feed back from our customer is that when they travel they have better cellular service that they do here in NY. How can you sell a product that lacks service. There is to many dead spots here in NY. I hop...
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Dyingunman

Aug 19, 2004, 9:05 AM
i work for indirect here in Nassau county NY the coverage is alittle better here but not muck thats why i would go with t-mobile for coverage on LI.
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Chapperal

Aug 19, 2004, 11:05 PM
I wanted to thank you for that infomation you listed.
I live in Gainesville, Fl. 32614, and at the moment I'm a Verizon customer.
I have a parent who lives in Suffolk County, N.Y. I was thinking of switching to Cingular, but this is the second time I've heard of the lousy coverage of both Cing. and Attws.
It may take awhile for those two carriers to get their act together, and I'm not going to waste my time with those two.
Here in Gainesville, Fl. they have a kiosk in the Oaks Mall and a store outside the mall. Attws can't even afford to put an ad in the papper. So most people don't even bother with ATTWS. Cingular coverage isn't that much better.
The biggest carriers here are: Verizon, Alltell, Sprint, T-Mobile.
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phonepimp3376

Aug 20, 2004, 10:01 AM
Sorry, but I have to weigh in on this. As you might know we have mapping tools that allow us to see what coverage is like in any given zip code. I plugged yours in and found that Cingular has what we call 'high' coverage in Gainesville. You border on an area that includes high and medium coverage.

This is only Cingular's coverage in the area. I can't speak for ATTWS.

If there are other parts of the state you have concerns about, let me know and I'll check them out for you as well.
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BEEPERDEPOT7

Aug 22, 2004, 12:38 PM
I WOULD RECOMEND EITHER SPRINT PCS OR VERIZON FOR CUSTOMERS IN SUFFOLK COUNTY NEW YORK. IF YOU WANT SPRINT PCS I WOULD BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO ASSIST YOU IN PURCHASING A UNIT FOR YOUR PARENTS AT OUR LOCATION HERE IN OAKDALE NY. UNFORTUNALLY WE DONT SELL VERIZON WIRELESS AT OUR LOCATION. BEST OF LUCK TO YOU. IF INTERESTED EMAIL CELLWAREHOUSE1@AOL.COM AND WE WILL CONTACT YOU AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
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BEEPERDEPOT7

Aug 26, 2004, 9:17 PM
Improvements For Cingular Wireless that are neccesary in in these surrounding areas!!!!

Suffolk County New York
Oakdale
Bayport
Bohemia
Ronkonkoma
Bellport
Islip
Central Islip
Wading River
Hamptons
Shoreham
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BEEPERDEPOT7

Aug 26, 2004, 9:19 PM
The reason why I now these are bad areas are due to thats where mu store is located or feedback from customers returning phones from. The areas listed are the top areas in Suffolk County that we get the most returns from.
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Chapperal

Aug 26, 2004, 9:51 PM
I wanted thank you for that info. I am an Verizon customer contract expires this coming jan/05. I was thinking of switching to Cingular, but all I've heard is out bad Cingular is in Suffolk county.
I brought my Verzion phone up there not to long ago, and it worked great in all of Suffolk and Nassau counties.
I'll take coverage OVER roll over minutes any day of the week.
Thanks again, for saving me time, money and confirming my research.
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