Mary Anne, I'd rethink the switch to Nextel, we use them at work and everyone hates them, countless drop calls, fade in and out. We even get a deal on them through our work and very few people take advantage of it because of the horrible service and atrocious customer service.
John On Jul 19, 2007, at 6:56 PM, Mary Anne Stout wrote: >> Our cell phones are go=phones from T-mobile and cost only the >> minutes we use, and one does not lose any minute for a whole year.So >> we are spoiled . Does anybody else, if not the iPhone, use at least >> AT&T for their carrier to see whether it does OK in the Louisville >> vicinity? >> Marta > > I am in the process of switching from them to Nextel. When I started > (two years ago--arrrgh!) building the new house, I found that my > Verizon phone had almost no coverage there, so I dragged everybody I > could get hold of out to test their cell coverage. I found that > Cingular had the best, so I switched to them. I needed to change my > holdover-from-GTE no minutes plan anyway so that my architect and > contractors could leave voicemail. The Cingular phone worked > beautifully at this remote spot in northern Spencer county. It also > worked everywhere else I tried it in Spencer, Shelby, and Jefferson > counties. Then we finally got the roof on the house. It's a metal > roof. I have no reception at all indoors. So I switched to Nextel and > bought the same phone as the one contractor who gets reception > inside. (It's not all coverage--it's partly the phone. His partner > has a different phone and has to go outside to call.) > I seldom go west of Middletown in Jefferson County, but the few times > I've checked my Cingular phone in downtown Louisville or over near > the fairgrounds I've been all right. (I was sorry to leave just as > the iPhone came out, but what good would one do me if I had to go up > to the mailbox to check my messages?) > -- > Mary Anne in Taylorsville, Kentucky > "Sadly, the program didn't always work." > Macworld, September 2003 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be July 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >
