What's a Treo IX? Dick On Jul 28, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Don Ferguson wrote:
> 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 > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > Richard E Johnson, MD [EMAIL PROTECTED]
