Cell phones forum: I have T-Mobile, should I switch to Cingular?

i was just at cingular and they seem fairly inflexible in terms of setting up accounts without 2 year contracts.

t-mob was at least offering the option.

how do i know what i want to be doing in 2 years?

verizon was the same way when i used them but that was almost 5 years ago.

Yeah but they don't offer that information freely, so you have to do some digging to find out. In fact, they steer you away from finding that out. Oh, and you pay for the privelege too.

In the past month I have been with Sprint (8 years with them), Verizon, and Cingular. Sprint couldn't care less anymore about their customers. Sunny indifference, is how I would describe their attitude. I spent $450 to get out of my contracts with them. They still don't even know I'm gone. When I first went with them years ago they bent over backwards to help you out.

Verizon has great coverage in our area, no dropped calls that my family or I have experienced. But NO EXTENDED NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS. This wasn't good for us. They cheerfully refunded my money including the activation fees, but only after I went back to the store to complain about the $977.25 bill the company had sent me. I stayed with them 4 days.

Then I went to Cingular and have been with them about 22 days. We have three different phones (Sony Ericsson, LG, and Nokia). ALL OF THEM make the TVs and speakers buzz. Since all three do it I would have to guess IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH CINGULAR'S SIGNAL.

By the way, we can't live with Cingular's bad signal strength and dropped calls. Terrible in our area. All my friends who had ATT loved their service and say that it is much worse now. Also they all comment that it has been worse since the beginning of this year. No body seems to know why. It doesn't make much sense if it is the same service, same towers.

The cell phone is our business phone. We can't afford to have repeated dropped calls. I guess we will go back to Verizon, though I'm not thrilled.

In terms of signal strength and dependability in San Antonio, TX and the surrounding area, Verizon is best, followed by Sprint and, a sad last, Cingular.

Maybe I should try T-Mobile. Any one have any experience with T-mobile in the SA area and up I H 10 through the Hill Country?

one word, allover...and its GSM too

T-mobile has a larger selection of phones. They have the same prices for the plan, almost .

5,600 min?, i envy you jeepgirl. I have around like 3,000

Cingular is a GSM carrier just like T-Mobile. Now that T-Mobile has made agreements with other roaming partners the coverage is better. The problem with Cingular is that they rely to much on the 850mhz frequency. Your phone may show good coverage but the call quality is not as good. T-Mobile's priamry frequency is 1900mhz and only really use 850mhz in more rural areas. The problem with 850 is the amount of interference and dropped calls. You have probably seen commercials talking about Cingulars low percentage of dropped calls. Well the firm that wrote that report probably isnt as reputable as J.D. Power and Assoc. who says T-Mobile and Verizon has the most reliable network with the least amount of dropped calls. Dont switch to a carrier because you think they have better phones. If you like one of the models they carry visit www.simoncells.com or www.expansys.com or even ebay and buy the phone you want. make sure its unlocked and has 1900/850 mhz. The price will be higher so you use your tenure at T-Mob to get a discounted handset like a RAZR or PEBL and turn around and sell it on eBay to make some of the money back. What phone do you want? The stupid iTunes phone? If so, you need to realize that T-Mobile has 4 phones that play MP3's (itunes name is a branding thing)

Sure Cingular has rollover, but if you use all of your minutes in the first place, then what's left to roll over? If you're so into their phones, why not buy an unlocked Cingular phone?