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Cailiff04 · 07-11-2004, 1:22 PM

Can anyone tell me if better coverage is coming for T-mobile in NW ohio? I live in findlay Ohio and the coverage is good on the western side of town (along I-75) but you got o the east side of town where all of the mall area is..and coverage is really poor...Anyone help?

Etorres777 · 07-11-2004, 1:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Cailiff04

Can anyone tell me if better coverage is coming for T-mobile in NW ohio? I live in findlay Ohio and the coverage is good on the western side of town (along I-75) but you got o the east side of town where all of the mall area is..and coverage is really poor...Anyone help?

Help in what way? What other carrier you can go with?

Cailiff04 · 07-11-2004, 1:54 PM

Well..i can go with Verizon (which wants a $400.00 deposit) Alltal wants a 1000.00 deposit and those are the major ones then you have attws which uses the same network as T-mobile and nextel which wants 400.00 deposit from me

Etorres777 · 07-11-2004, 2:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Cailiff04

Well..i can go with Verizon (which wants a $400.00 deposit) Alltal wants a 1000.00 deposit and those are the major ones then you have attws which uses the same network as T-mobile and nextel which wants 400.00 deposit from me

If you're able to make and receive calls decently, stay with TMO, but if it's getting really bad then you'll have to pay one of those hefty deposits. Have you though about getting a pre-paid phone just for back up? Might I suggest 7-Eleve Speak Out. They charge no roaming, and calls are 20 cents a minute.

Cailiff04 · 07-11-2004, 2:24 PM

I can receive and make calls pretty good here at my home. however the eastside and northside of town has very poor coverage. I have not considered a prepaid phone as a back up..but TMO keeps telling me that better coverage is coming. They've told me this for about 6 months now. 7elev Speak Easy? What is that?

Etorres777 · 07-11-2004, 2:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Cailiff04

I can receive and make calls pretty good here at my home. however the eastside and northside of town has very poor coverage. I have not considered a prepaid phone as a back up..but TMO keeps telling me that better coverage is coming. They've told me this for about 6 months now. 7elev Speak Easy? What is that?

Well, 7-Eleven Easy speak is a pre-paid service from 7-Eleven. It runs off of the Cingular network I believe. (not sure). It's 20 cents a minute anytime. It runs on TDMA, which is covered almost anywhere in the U. S. and i'm sure it will work great in those areas that you are having trouble in. They have a phone that's a TDMA model that is almost exactly like your GSM TMO phone. I would consider the pre-paid first. 20 cents a minute is not a bad deal and you don't get charged roaming. Plus, Nokia's are great with reception. Can I help you with anything else?

Cailiff04 · 07-11-2004, 2:39 PM

Sounds good..Does 7elev sell the phones and cards too? I was our local 7elev and didn't see any phones just cards too. But one problem..we dont have Cingular here. Verizon, Alltel, Nextel, TMO, and ATTws

Etorres777 · 07-11-2004, 2:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Cailiff04

Sounds good..Does 7elev sell the phones and cards too? I was our local 7elev and didn't see any phones just cards too. But one problem..we dont have Cingular here. Verizon, Alltel, Nextel, TMO, and ATTws

It doesn't matter. The phone picks up any signal that's available and you're not penalized for it. You won't get penalized and yes they sell them at 7 Eleven stores. It started about 2 weeks ago or less. I suggest you go and find out, then ask.

Cailiff04 · 07-11-2004, 3:11 PM

thanx for all of your input...I'll go look for that at my local 7-11

Etorres777 · 07-11-2004, 3:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Cailiff04

thanx for all of your input...I'll go look for that at my local 7-11

Welcome, always here to help

jones · 07-11-2004, 5:32 PM

there's only 2 carriers w/ extensive coverage in OHIO that is:
VZW and CINGULAR.

Cailiff04 · 07-11-2004, 6:05 PM

Cingular is not available in findlay..but VZW is and they want a $400.00 deposit from me..which I think should be against the law..but that is why I chose TMO..b/c they werent as particular about the credit cheack as anyone else was.

jones · 07-11-2004, 10:13 PM

CINGULAR coverage map shows I75 coverage where Finlay is.
They may not be selling service here but they're showing coverage.
Like Hillsboro where it's not on their website but there's coverage.
T-Mobile has the same coverage for I75 coverage for Finlay but has huge coverage gaps in Ohio.

warriorfootball9 · 07-13-2004, 1:14 AM

T-Mobile should fill in those gaps. Because I think more and more people are going to want to go Cingular and another service provider.

Cailiff04 · 07-21-2004, 6:09 PM

Tmo probabally will get better coverage here, Once they find out that our local wal mart just started selling their phones a couple months ago. This might help the better coverage in NW ohio with T-mo

UPDATE::::

I have switched to Alltel..and let me tell you..it's the best decision I've made this month. just got the Audiovox CDM8410 and let me tell you....full signal anywhere in Findlay and in the out lying ares...no less than 3..Thanks everyone for all of your input!!

jones · 07-23-2004, 9:55 PM

The problem w/ T-Mobile is that they don't want to sign roaming agreements w/ ATTWS or Cingular in Places they don't have coverage.
There are places where there's GSM but there's no roaming agreement in place so you get NO coverage.

Cailiff04 · 07-23-2004, 9:57 PM

exactly bones. Which is why I switched carriers to Alltel..better coverage and they have romaing agreements. Plus I got more minutes for less went from 400 for 45.00 to 700 for 39.99. but if T-Mobile had better coverage..dont you think that they would possibly get more customers?

Cailiff04 · 07-23-2004, 9:58 PM

my appoligies..Jones..I called ya bones on mistake

Matt · 07-24-2004, 11:35 PM

Right or wrong, T-Mobile is continuing to add more customers for anyone except Verizon, and they've been doing this for about two years. Roaming agreements cost money, and what T-Mobile has decided NOT to pay for is "in-market" roaming - meaning if you have TM service in one city, but lose coverage as you go to the outside of the city, your phone won't pick up other GSM coverage (assuming it's at 1900 which is 95% of TM phones support). TM has out of market roaming agreements with many carriers, including AT&T and Cingular. They are also agressively expanding their network all the time - they expect to add over 4000 towers in all of 2004. They added 770 cell sites in the first quarter of this year.

Califf04 - you had T-Mobile and had 400 minutes for $45? I've never heard of that plan.

Cailiff04 · 07-25-2004, 12:17 AM

Well..if they expect to save customers..thay'll have to imply roaming agreements or expand coverage. I live where US 68, 224, I-75 and US 23 all intersect..you'd think that all major US routes would be covered by TM. 4000 new towers? HAHA where in BIG cities! No new towers were put up here for TM since they were voicestream and put up the 1st towere in Findlay..The reason I switched carriers was for better coverage and more minutes. but mostly for better coverage. I got sick of not having no service on my phone everytime I went to use it. GSM is GSM..maybe TM will realize that roaming agreements are needed and quit being cheapies and pay the money for in market roaming agreements for their customers!

Cailiff04 · 08-03-2004, 10:14 PM

HAHA this is funny....I got a flyer in the mail today from T-mobile. It said that they added 24 new cell sites in Detroit. Well i live in Findlay Ohio..who cares about Detroit? How about coverage here....Little do they know that I am no longer a t-mobile customer...Stupid people!!

Matt · 08-04-2004, 10:34 AM

Findlay is probably considered part of the Detroit market, so they sent the card to all their customers in that market. I would guess the cards were probably printed a couple months ago, since I got a card this weekend as well. They might be sending them out nationwide, so that's a lot of cards to print

bobolito · 08-04-2004, 2:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Cailiff04

Well..i can go with Verizon (which wants a $400.00 deposit) Alltal wants a 1000.00 deposit and those are the major ones then you have attws which uses the same network as T-mobile and nextel which wants 400.00 deposit from me

AT&T does not use the same network as T-Mobile.

07-11-2004, 1:22 PM	#1 (permalink)
Cailiff04 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Arlington Ohio Posts: 291 Phone(s): LG Scoop (AX260) Provider(s): Alltel Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Images: 28	T-mobile coverage in Nw ohio Can anyone tell me if better coverage is coming for T-mobile in NW ohio? I live in findlay Ohio and the coverage is good on the western side of town (along I-75) but you got o the east side of town where all of the mall area is..and coverage is really poor...Anyone help?

07-11-2004, 1:54 PM	#3 (permalink)
Cailiff04 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Arlington Ohio Posts: 291 Phone(s): LG Scoop (AX260) Provider(s): Alltel Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Images: 28	Re: T-mobile coverage in Nw ohio Well..i can go with Verizon (which wants a $400.00 deposit) Alltal wants a 1000.00 deposit and those are the major ones then you have attws which uses the same network as T-mobile and nextel which wants 400.00 deposit from me

07-11-2004, 2:24 PM	#5 (permalink)
Cailiff04 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Arlington Ohio Posts: 291 Phone(s): LG Scoop (AX260) Provider(s): Alltel Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Images: 28	Re: T-mobile coverage in Nw ohio I can receive and make calls pretty good here at my home. however the eastside and northside of town has very poor coverage. I have not considered a prepaid phone as a back up..but TMO keeps telling me that better coverage is coming. They've told me this for about 6 months now. 7elev Speak Easy? What is that?

07-11-2004, 2:39 PM	#7 (permalink)
Cailiff04 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Arlington Ohio Posts: 291 Phone(s): LG Scoop (AX260) Provider(s): Alltel Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Images: 28	Re: T-mobile coverage in Nw ohio Sounds good..Does 7elev sell the phones and cards too? I was our local 7elev and didn't see any phones just cards too. But one problem..we dont have Cingular here. Verizon, Alltel, Nextel, TMO, and ATTws

07-11-2004, 3:11 PM	#9 (permalink)
Cailiff04 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Arlington Ohio Posts: 291 Phone(s): LG Scoop (AX260) Provider(s): Alltel Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Images: 28	Re: T-mobile coverage in Nw ohio thanx for all of your input...I'll go look for that at my local 7-11

07-11-2004, 5:32 PM	#11 (permalink)
jones Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,425 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: T-mobile coverage in Nw ohio there's only 2 carriers w/ extensive coverage in OHIO that is: VZW and CINGULAR.

07-11-2004, 6:05 PM	#12 (permalink)
Cailiff04 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Arlington Ohio Posts: 291 Phone(s): LG Scoop (AX260) Provider(s): Alltel Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Images: 28	Re: T-mobile coverage in Nw ohio Cingular is not available in findlay..but VZW is and they want a $400.00 deposit from me..which I think should be against the law..but that is why I chose TMO..b/c they werent as particular about the credit cheack as anyone else was.

07-11-2004, 10:13 PM	#13 (permalink)
jones Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,425 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: T-mobile coverage in Nw ohio CINGULAR coverage map shows I75 coverage where Finlay is. They may not be selling service here but they're showing coverage. Like Hillsboro where it's not on their website but there's coverage. T-Mobile has the same coverage for I75 coverage for Finlay but has huge coverage gaps in Ohio. Last edited by jones; 07-11-2004 at 10:35 PM.

07-13-2004, 1:14 AM	#14 (permalink)
warriorfootball9 Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Streetsboro, Ohio Posts: 121 Phone(s): Samsung X427 Provider(s): Cingular Wireless Devices: MP3, Palm Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts My Auctions	Re: T-mobile coverage in Nw ohio T-Mobile should fill in those gaps. Because I think more and more people are going to want to go Cingular and another service provider.

07-21-2004, 6:09 PM	#15 (permalink)
Cailiff04 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Arlington Ohio Posts: 291 Phone(s): LG Scoop (AX260) Provider(s): Alltel Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Images: 28	Re: T-mobile coverage in Nw ohio Tmo probabally will get better coverage here, Once they find out that our local wal mart just started selling their phones a couple months ago. This might help the better coverage in NW ohio with T-mo UPDATE:::: I have switched to Alltel..and let me tell you..it's the best decision I've made this month. just got the Audiovox CDM8410 and let me tell you....full signal anywhere in Findlay and in the out lying ares...no less than 3..Thanks everyone for all of your input!!

07-23-2004, 9:55 PM	#16 (permalink)
jones Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,425 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: T-mobile coverage in Nw ohio The problem w/ T-Mobile is that they don't want to sign roaming agreements w/ ATTWS or Cingular in Places they don't have coverage. There are places where there's GSM but there's no roaming agreement in place so you get NO coverage. __________________ - 3 Billion GSM Users by 2009. - 700 GSM Carriers in 220 Countries - 82% of the Global Market 45,000 Cell Sites and Adding.

07-23-2004, 9:57 PM	#17 (permalink)
Cailiff04 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Arlington Ohio Posts: 291 Phone(s): LG Scoop (AX260) Provider(s): Alltel Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Images: 28	Re: T-mobile coverage in Nw ohio exactly bones. Which is why I switched carriers to Alltel..better coverage and they have romaing agreements. Plus I got more minutes for less went from 400 for 45.00 to 700 for 39.99. but if T-Mobile had better coverage..dont you think that they would possibly get more customers?

07-23-2004, 9:58 PM	#18 (permalink)
Cailiff04 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Arlington Ohio Posts: 291 Phone(s): LG Scoop (AX260) Provider(s): Alltel Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Images: 28	Re: T-mobile coverage in Nw ohio my appoligies..Jones..I called ya bones on mistake

07-24-2004, 11:35 PM	#19 (permalink)
Matt Super Moderator Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Lititz, Pa. Posts: 4,705 Phone(s): BlackBerry Pearl Provider(s): T-Mobile Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Images: 2	Re: T-mobile coverage in Nw ohio Right or wrong, T-Mobile is continuing to add more customers for anyone except Verizon, and they've been doing this for about two years. Roaming agreements cost money, and what T-Mobile has decided NOT to pay for is "in-market" roaming - meaning if you have TM service in one city, but lose coverage as you go to the outside of the city, your phone won't pick up other GSM coverage (assuming it's at 1900 which is 95% of TM phones support). TM has out of market roaming agreements with many carriers, including AT&T and Cingular. They are also agressively expanding their network all the time - they expect to add over 4000 towers in all of 2004. They added 770 cell sites in the first quarter of this year. Califf04 - you had T-Mobile and had 400 minutes for $45? I've never heard of that plan. __________________ Join the T-Mobile Group Forum (or any other!) ...a/k/a cheerioboy26 elsewhere on the net....

07-25-2004, 12:17 AM	#20 (permalink)
Cailiff04 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Arlington Ohio Posts: 291 Phone(s): LG Scoop (AX260) Provider(s): Alltel Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Images: 28	Re: T-mobile coverage in Nw ohio Well..if they expect to save customers..thay'll have to imply roaming agreements or expand coverage. I live where US 68, 224, I-75 and US 23 all intersect..you'd think that all major US routes would be covered by TM. 4000 new towers? HAHA where in BIG cities! No new towers were put up here for TM since they were voicestream and put up the 1st towere in Findlay..The reason I switched carriers was for better coverage and more minutes. but mostly for better coverage. I got sick of not having no service on my phone everytime I went to use it. GSM is GSM..maybe TM will realize that roaming agreements are needed and quit being cheapies and pay the money for in market roaming agreements for their customers!

08-03-2004, 10:14 PM	#21 (permalink)
Cailiff04 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Arlington Ohio Posts: 291 Phone(s): LG Scoop (AX260) Provider(s): Alltel Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Images: 28	Re: T-mobile coverage in Nw ohio HAHA this is funny....I got a flyer in the mail today from T-mobile. It said that they added 24 new cell sites in Detroit. Well i live in Findlay Ohio..who cares about Detroit? How about coverage here....Little do they know that I am no longer a t-mobile customer...Stupid people!!

08-04-2004, 10:34 AM	#22 (permalink)
Matt Super Moderator Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Lititz, Pa. Posts: 4,705 Phone(s): BlackBerry Pearl Provider(s): T-Mobile Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Images: 2	Re: T-mobile coverage in Nw ohio Findlay is probably considered part of the Detroit market, so they sent the card to all their customers in that market. I would guess the cards were probably printed a couple months ago, since I got a card this weekend as well. They might be sending them out nationwide, so that's a lot of cards to print __________________ Join the T-Mobile Group Forum (or any other!) ...a/k/a cheerioboy26 elsewhere on the net....

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