Cingular or T-Mobile??

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Kunmui

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Hello everyone,

My contract with Verizon is up in March 2007, and I want to switch to a GSM carrier (because those seem to work better at my house, and I will be going abroad this summer). However, currently there is a pocket of low/no coverage for my house/neighborhood on T-Mobile's network, whereas Cingular gets great service. However, with T-Mobile recent win with UMTS networks in the US (for 1700MHz and 2100MHz) will T-Mobiles coverage been widened or increased. Also, does anyone know if the new T-Mobile phone will have GSM+UMTS or just one or the other?

Thanks,
William
 
go with cingular...

i could give you a long list of logical reasoning but im busy so just listen to me, i have curly hair which = smart = usually right = get cingular...
 
great reasoning, but I'll say curly hair = carrot top = we don't wanna look like him = go with T-mobile


If Cingular has better coverage then they might be a better option but amazing CS, better prices, and 6$ completely unlimited T-Zones = Win for me and T-mobile
 
well, like i said, currently, T-mobile's coverage at my house is pretty bad, but I'm curious if it's planning on getting more widespread with UMTS. And I agree, their prices do seem cheaper than cingular, and i do like some of their phonees much better.
 
get Cingular without a contract and then just wait for T-Mobile to get better in your area. Once it gets better you can switch.
 
I have t-mobile myself and I love it. great value.

but if tmobile coverage is bad to the point of your phone not being able to take a phone call, then you should stay away.

Even if Tmobile gets wider coverage, it probably will be another year or so.
 
coverage will not get better even if tmobile has UMTS, unless you have a phone thats compatible with the 1700/2100 frequency, but there are NO phones available.
 
theres always pre-paid. or you can bring in your own equipment (your own phone) to get cingular post-paid service without a contract. the only downside to this is, you have to do without M2M
 
just go with Cingular its a lot easier...

if you really just wanna try it out, then get a pay as you go plan. you can choose either 10 cents a minute, or $1 a day with free mobile to mobile. my gf has the latter, because i (all of her friends) are on Cingular. so she only pays like $1 a day even though we talk for hours every day...
 
I have another similar question. I mentioned in an earlier post that, according to T-Mobile's online coverege map, right around my house/neighborhood is a pocket of low coverage reception. However, my neighbor with Cingular get good/decent coverage in our neighborhood. So, what is the roaming deal/network saring between T-Mobile and Cingular? If I was to get a tri-/quad-band phone (which I will have to get for international travel anyway), if the phone could pick up T-Mobile's 1900MHz network, would it then connect to Cingular's 850MHz? Or can it jump to a Cingular 1900MHz? (How do I find out what networks (MHz, etc) are in my area?)

I'm just very dubious about Cingular in their customer service area. And I have heard that T-Mobile is much much better in that regard.

Thanks,
William
 
You seem to be focusing in on GSM carriers. You also might want to look at other CDMA carriers such as Sprint because they might also cover your house better than Verizon.

The Cingular and T-Mobile roaming agreement depends on where you area. Some areas they will roam on one another and in others they will not. I'm not sure about your location so I can't really give you any better of an answer.
 
I'm focusing on GSM because I am traveling abroad in summer 2007, and would like to have an unlocked phone to travel with. (And I've heard that both T-Mobile and Cingular will unlock your phone for you after 90 days in a contract?)

I think, since my family is on a Family Plan with VZW right now, is that once our contract expire in March, that we will do a little experimentation, taking advantage of the required 30 day trial. I may go with T-mobile and my mother/brother will go with Cingular, and whichever one we like better, the other person will switch over.
 
The t-mobile online coverage map for my neighborhood shows the lightest color = lowest coverage. When I had my motorola v635, I had 2-3 bars max inside my house and I couldnt use my phone in my garage or driveway; and had to wait to drive to the end of the street for it to pick up signall again. I recently bought an SE K800i, and now I get full bars inside my house and 2 bars in the garage and driveway. So coverage also depends partly on the phone. I suggest you get t-mobile and get an SE k790a or K800i.
 
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