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More info?)
Larry,
As far as coverage, untill the merger, T-Mobile and Cingular shared the
same Infrastructure. Now, Cingular has sold the infrastrure to T-mobile
and will using AttWS infrastructure.
As for Plans, you will have to decide for yourself.
Chip
Larry Scholnick wrote:
> "Ski" wrote:
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>>In Los Angeles which is better Cingular or T-Mobile. I like the one year contract with T-Mobile.
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> Hey, you're asking a biased audience here. We are here because we have Cingular. Comparatively few
> have previously had T-Mobile so there's not much basis for comparison. Some are here because they
> signed up with AT&T Wireless and were transferred here without much choice.
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> We're not all Cingular fans. Many of us use the newsgroup because we are upset about how we are
> treated by Cingular.
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> But there's one thing that Cingular has that nobody else has. ROLLOVER. That's not what your
> well-trained dog does; it's what your unused daytime minutes do at the end of the month.
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> I went on a cross-country driving trip in June with 6 other cars; we were calling back and forth to
> one another constantly. If not for the unused minutes from the previous minutes, I would have
> gotten a huge bill. Instead, it was the same monthly amount like any other month.
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> Another nice thing that Cingular has: FAST FORWARD. For $50 for the cradle and $2.99 per month,
> you put your phone into this special charger at home and your calls area automatically transferred
> to your home phone; take your phone out of the cradle and calls are no longer forwarded. And the
> minutes of the transferred calls don't count against you.
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> Rollover and Fast Forward are the key reasons I would stay with Cingular, even if I wasn't locked
> into a 2-year contract.
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