Anyone Roaming on Cingular Network??

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HoosierAthlete

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Okay, I'm a bit perplexed! Last night& tonight, I have noticed that between the hours of 10 pm (roughly) and 12 midnight, my TMO 8700 has been roaming on the Cingular network while @ home?? I don't get it?? I've tried a hard re-boot (pulling battery out & re-setting) as well as turning off & on several times w/ no changes. In addition to such, upon firing up my bb this am, I was still roaming on Cingular for about 20 minutes. No offense 2 Cingular users; but, the service is subpar compared to my TMO! Is TMO doing service on their towers for the daylight savings time switch-over or is this a precursor to a major corporate acquisition? I pray that it's not the latter...ps- if it helps, I live in the Philadelphia Metro area...anyone else experiencing same thing (I'm on Cingular now damnit!)
 
Well T-Mo and Cingular have contracts for roaming. It just maybe that you're in an area where T-MO service isn't that great so you get switched over to cingular.
 
exactly, if you have free roaming in your plan (most plans are) you should have nothing to worry about...Cingular and T-mobile towers are about the same..IMO, but...I don't like the Customer Service of Cingular, and at&t...they simply suck....t-mobile is the best!
 
~via BB (wap.rabroad.com)~ Thanks hunain & boomboom! I appreciate the info. I've heard of the roaming b4 between the carriers; although, had never experienced this prior to 2day! Boomboom, u r correct! TMO Rocks!!
 
Hi, What are are you in? I"m in socal, and when i have no tmobile signal and ares a touble --------- woo i was wondering why noone responded.

I meant, I'm in socal. in areas where there is no tmobile signal, but there is a cingular signal, i try to force over to the cingular network. But it just says searching the whole time. even though when i do a scan the cingular network shows up. Anyone else have this problem? anyone know how to fix it?
 
Yes, you can roam on T-mobile's plans. All BB plans are Nationwide and there are no roaming or long distance charges.
Just like all the other wireless carriers TMO has roaming aggreements with the 3 major carriers(Verizon,Sprint,Cingular).
If you're in an area where the Cingular signal is strong/good and the TMO signal is weak/fair or there is no TMO signal, your phone will Automaticly find the "best" signal.
To manualy switch networks go to: Options (its the tool icon)
Under settings
go to Network
then under Network selection mode change it to Manual
then select Search for network
Choose the one you want
 
Hi Spur, thanks. but when i try that, i won't let me onto the cingular network. I just show no bars, and "Searching" even though i know Cingular has a signal there. (this is in socal). Anyone else have this problem?
 
I tried to do the same thing on my Pearl, and my girlfriend's Nokia out in Lubbock where the t-mobile signal is spotty, but I couldn't get manual selection to work on either phone.
 
I was in sol cal 2 weeks ago and I noticed that I was on Cingular the whole time. I found the data service to be a bit slower then it was in the east coast on TMO.
 
The roaming agreements are placed on a per tower basis. Normally in areas that are covered by T-Mobile (areas where you can get a local phone number with T-Mobile) they do not allow roaming. This is why you can't always force your phone to another carrier.
 
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