Yep, completely depends on whether there is a tower near where you want to talk! One thing I learned from the Sprint rep and verified through personal experience is that Sprint phones are allowed to roam onto Verizon's network if there is no Sprint coverage. I tested that and it's true!
Not sure if AT&T/Cingular and T-Mobile have such an agreement in the GSM world, but I feel that with my Sprint 755p I get the best of both: the places Sprint has excellent coverage and the places Verizon does. Happy camper here. For now. Well, actually maybe I want something new. Heck, I've had the 755p for almost 2 months now. I want a Treo IX. Now please!! Cheers, Don -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of john.messeder Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 9:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] Cingular 680 Probably not. Cell towers have an effective radius limited by the terrain and their power, and some companies simply have more towers in an area than do other companies. A friend of mine went with Sprint and discovered it didn't work near his home. He went with Sprint because that company claimed better coverage than ATT/Cingular/ATT, which I had, and mine didn't work where he lived. Alas, ATT installed another tower, Sprint didn't, and now my phone works and his doesn't. I went to ATT, by the way, because the company I was with kept promising to fill in the holes where I live and work and I got tired of waiting. There are places where, depending on the company, the darn things won't work. I suggest anyone thinking of getting a cell phone or changing carriers talk to people in the primary use area and see who they are with and how they like the service. It would be nice if the companies would allow new customers to test the service. Unfortunately, although I've known some users to get such a test, VZW seems to be the only one doing that as a matter of company policy. srivaths srinivasan wrote: > Is the Cingular/AT&T network not as comprehensive as VZW. My new 680p > doesn't seem to work from home (no n/w coverage) while I had no problems > with VZW. Any thing I can do? > > -- /"Thirty-five million deaths leave an empty place at only one family table." / (News commentator Eric Severied in a radio essay on the 25th anniversary of the start of World War Two. 8/31/64) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
