If I can't get cell phone connections IN the house, I'm going to need two phone lines, one for my new at-home business. Since one residential line averages more than sixty dollars a month (with area-wide calling and caller ID, not including long-distance) I really don't want to do that, and going up to the end of the driveway every time I want to call my clients or check for messages doesn't appeal to me even in summer. (Customer service? I have to say, since AT&T bought Cingular, customer service has gone over a cliff.)
>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 > > >> -- Mary Anne, from the Aluminum Powerbook running 10.4.10
