[H] GSM phones ?

2005-06-14 Thread FORC5
Have a friend that is moving to Prescott and ATT forced him to a GSM phone which has no service outside city, highway limits. He says 4 miles out of town he looses signal, at first he took the phone back and they gave him his old one back ( like mine ) but he says Cingular is going to force

RE: [H] GSM phones ?

2005-06-14 Thread Chris Reeves
@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] GSM phones ? Have a friend that is moving to Prescott and ATT forced him to a GSM phone which has no service outside city, highway limits. He says 4 miles out of town he looses signal, at first he took the phone back and they gave him his old one back ( like mine ) but he

Re: [H] GSM phones ?

2005-06-14 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 03:29 PM 6/14/2005, FORC5 typed: Is Alltell OK ? I dropped Alltell years ago only because they didn't have the coverage area that I needed at the time have been with Verizon ever since but I had decent service otherwise I'm sure they're coverage area has expanded by now. Sorry but I

Re: [H] GSM phones ?

2005-06-14 Thread Brian Weeden
I really don't think his problem is with the GSM format itself. There are some tech differences but essentially GSM and CDMA are like VHS and Beta - competing standards which will both do the job. The biggest difference is that here in the US we use mostly CDMA while just about everything

Re: [H] GSM phones ?

2005-06-14 Thread joeuser
I use AllTel not a bad company. Prices could be better but the plans are good, service is good, and you can wheel and deal them from time to time. For rural service it can't be beat. I still have to use analog from time to time - if that gives you any idea. FORC5 wrote: Have a friend that is