Cingular GSM in New York City

[trump10069]

Does anyone know what is with the Cingular GSM service in New York City? Does it use the ATT towers as well as the T-mobile towers? If so, they can use both 850 and 1900MHz frequency.

In addition, why does Cingular market a tri-band Moto V180 phone whereas ATT previously marketed a quad band phone?

Thanks

[Fire14]

Does anyone know what is with the Cingular GSM service in New York City? Does it use the ATT towers as well as the T-mobile towers? If so, they can use both 850 and 1900MHz frequency.

In addition, why does Cingular market a tri-band Moto V180 phone whereas ATT previously marketed a quad band phone?

Thanks

They have been opening the AT&T Towers to Cingular users in the NY, NJ area since the merger which will give you the 850 band in this area as well as AT&T's 1900 & Cingular/T-Mobile's 1900 band.
As for the marketing of the V180 if i remember correctly AT&T's listing was wrong, it is a Tri-band & not a Quad band phone.

[egale]

I have noticed a few areas, track level at Penn Station in particular, where I used to get no or little service where now I get good service. Unfortunately, if the regular Cingular signal is very weak, I have to wait till it fades away to nothing before the phone switches to the ATT service which is quite strong.