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JDTravellers · 05-29-2005, 3:31 AM

HELLO,
I LIVE OVERSEAS, BUT WOULD LIKE TO MAINTAIN A US PHONE NUMBER THAT WILL BE:

A LOCAL NUMBER TO VENICE, FLORIDA
WILL NOT BE CANCELLED IF NOT USED FOR PERIODS UP TO 9 MONTHS
NO MONTHLY FEE
PAY FOR USAGE ONLY

WITH THIS CRITERIA IN MIND I OBVIOUSLY DO NOT WISH TO SUBSCRIBE TO A MONTHLY SERVICE. I OWN A NOKIA 6230 UNLOCKED PHONE AND HAVE A COLLECTION OF SIM CARDS FOR MANY COUNTRIES, BUT NOTHING YET FOR THE USA.
I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY SUGGESTIONS ON AVAILABILITY.
THANKS

ShoresGuy · 05-29-2005, 5:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gamer03

Well from what I have heard (from my friend) is that Verizon, Cingular, and Sprint (if you don't do a lot of travelling) are the best ones for the Daytona Beach area.

I haven't had any problems with Verizon, but I live on the west coast of Florida.

I would also suggest posting a question like this in either the Cingular or Verizon forum on Howard Forums.

Good luck and welcome to WA.

The site is:

www.howardforums.com

Gamer03 · 05-30-2005, 1:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShoresGuy

The site is:

www.howardforums.com

Whoops.

I should have included the site....sorry.

ShoresGuy · 05-30-2005, 4:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JDTravellers

HELLO,
I LIVE OVERSEAS, BUT WOULD LIKE TO MAINTAIN A US PHONE NUMBER THAT WILL BE:

A LOCAL NUMBER TO VENICE, FLORIDA
WILL NOT BE CANCELLED IF NOT USED FOR PERIODS UP TO 9 MONTHS
NO MONTHLY FEE
PAY FOR USAGE ONLY

WITH THIS CRITERIA IN MIND I OBVIOUSLY DO NOT WISH TO SUBSCRIBE TO A MONTHLY SERVICE. I OWN A NOKIA 6230 UNLOCKED PHONE AND HAVE A COLLECTION OF SIM CARDS FOR MANY COUNTRIES, BUT NOTHING YET FOR THE USA.
I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY SUGGESTIONS ON AVAILABILITY.
THANKS

Look here:

www.prepaidgsm.net/en/operators.html

PTCO911 · 05-30-2005, 5:39 PM

Hello all. I just discovered and registered on this forum

Charlyee · 05-30-2005, 5:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PTCO911

Hello all. I just discovered and registered on this forum

WELCOME to the forums PTCO911.I hope you like it here.

PTCO911 · 05-30-2005, 5:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Charlyee

WELCOME to the forums PTCO911.I hope you like it here.

Thank you. It looks like a lot of good information here.

adgsteve · 05-31-2005, 4:41 AM

Hello all,
Recently found this place through a long time member here. I like the cell site gallery, and have started filling in Wash State.
Won't have a lot of time to spend here but will continue adding cell sites to the gallery and post when I can. Thanks,

NYCDru · 05-31-2005, 10:44 AM

Your efforts are much appreciated. Welcome back as it were.

Shizam76 · 05-31-2005, 11:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PTCO911

Hello all. I just discovered and registered on this forum

Welcome!

Hey RancidHooligan....are you recruiting people from Manhattan?? There seem to be a few people from Manhattan joining lately....

ShoresGuy · 06-02-2005, 5:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PTCO911

Hello all. I just discovered and registered on this forum

Welcome. how did you find us?

Fire14 · 06-02-2005, 12:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by adgsteve

Hello all,
Recently found this place through a long time member here. I like the cell site gallery, and have started filling in Wash State.
Won't have a lot of time to spend here but will continue adding cell sites to the gallery and post when I can. Thanks,

Welcome Steve, look forward to the pictures in Washington State & enjoy the forums.

javorn holder · 06-02-2005, 2:04 PM

do any one know the unlock code for the siemen s56?

Conemar · 06-02-2005, 3:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dorothyg

Hello!

Hi, How are u?

Dr.Dorothy · 06-02-2005, 9:19 PM

Hi, folks...

I'm Dr.Dorothy, and my husband and I are looking to change our rate plans and possibly wireless provider -- probably also our phones, and frankly, we need some help.

We use our cell phones as our only phones -- we do not have any "land line" phone service and don't want it. I still have the first cell phone we got some years ago now -- my husband lost his and has a replacement now. We went with AT&T Wireless when we first got our cell phones and service, and I guess we still are AT&T customers officially, even though our bills now say Cingular.

We have old digital phones and service, and quite frankly, we should have investigated change years ago, but didn't get around to it. We really did NOT like the customer service AT&T provided in the past. But even more important than that, we find we are paying far, far too much for our phone service. Having talked to folks at Cingular, I know that we can get GSM (?whatever that is?) service and a rate plan and pay about half of what we are paying now, by going to a shared plan with rollover minutes.

Thing is, we are almost certainly looking at having to agree to a one or two year contract, no matter what company, phones, or rate plan we go with, and ... things have changed -- a lot, it seems since we got our phones years ago.

The technology has changed (at least -- hopefully progressed!) and there are a whole lot of new versions of alphabet soup achronyms with which we are totally unfamiliar, not to mention a plethora of companies, etc.

The salesperson at Cingular said that GSM is the new technology, and digital is outdated. I think he said there had been something else between the two of them... I don't know what the heck any of these things are and whether I'm hearing sales hype or reality when he said that there is better reception and coverage with GSM than digital. He also said that Cingular, since the merger, has the largest coverage network in the US, but just a scan of posts on this forum suggests that that is not the whole picture.

We live in Portland Oregon, and we don't need a lot of bells and whistles -- but we do need good coverage and reception, voice mail, caller ID, call waiting, shared minutes and rollover, nationwide coverage without long distance charges or roaming. (My husband has family in the Midwest, and I have family in Colorado, Georgia and other areas of the Pacific Northwest.) We would like to have better coverage in our own state than our digital phones/plans currently give us, as we like to go to the mountains and the coast where we currently do not often have service.

One of the posts above in this thread mentioned a glossary -- where might I find that? ...and is there a repository of useful definitions and commentary on the various different technologies?

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated. I'm very glad to have googled up this website today!

Thank you all for taking the time to read this.

Dr.Dorothy

RJB · 06-02-2005, 9:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dr.Dorothy

Hi, folks...

I'm Dr.Dorothy, and my husband and I are looking to change our rate plans and possibly wireless provider -- probably also our phones, and frankly, we need some help.

We use our cell phones as our only phones -- we do not have any "land line" phone service and don't want it. I still have the first cell phone we got some years ago now -- my husband lost his and has a replacement now. We went with AT&T Wireless when we first got our cell phones and service, and I guess we still are AT&T customers officially, even though our bills now say Cingular.

We have old digital phones and service, and quite frankly, we should have investigated change years ago, but didn't get around to it. We really did NOT like the customer service AT&T provided in the past. But even more important than that, we find we are paying far, far too much for our phone service. Having talked to folks at Cingular, I know that we can get GSM (?whatever that is?) service and a rate plan and pay about half of what we are paying now, by going to a shared plan with rollover minutes.

Thing is, we are almost certainly looking at having to agree to a one or two year contract, no matter what company, phones, or rate plan we go with, and ... things have changed -- a lot, it seems since we got our phones years ago.

The technology has changed (at least -- hopefully progressed!) and there are a whole lot of new versions of alphabet soup achronyms with which we are totally unfamiliar, not to mention a plethora of companies, etc.

The salesperson at Cingular said that GSM is the new technology, and digital is outdated. I think he said there had been something else between the two of them... I don't know what the heck any of these things are and whether I'm hearing sales hype or reality when he said that there is better reception and coverage with GSM than digital. He also said that Cingular, since the merger, has the largest coverage network in the US, but just a scan of posts on this forum suggests that that is not the whole picture.

We live in Portland Oregon, and we don't need a lot of bells and whistles -- but we do need good coverage and reception, voice mail, caller ID, call waiting, shared minutes and rollover, nationwide coverage without long distance charges or roaming. (My husband has family in the Midwest, and I have family in Colorado, Georgia and other areas of the Pacific Northwest.) We would like to have better coverage in our own state than our digital phones/plans currently give us, as we like to go to the mountains and the coast where we currently do not often have service.

One of the posts above in this thread mentioned a glossary -- where might I find that? ...and is there a repository of useful definitions and commentary on the various different technologies?

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated. I'm very glad to have googled up this website today!

Thank you all for taking the time to read this.

Dr.Dorothy

Hello-
Dr.Dorothy how are you? Anyways I am glad you found this site and I hope you enjoy it.

RJB · 06-02-2005, 10:04 PM

Dr.Dorothy I put your question in a place where it will be seen by more people. Here is the link http://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/sh...4095#post74095

Matt · 06-02-2005, 10:57 PM

You can get to the glossary by clicking here:

http://www.wirelessadvisor.com/Glossary.cfm

It's also available from the WA homepage.

Pizzle · 06-03-2005, 12:01 AM

New to the board, just wanted to say "hello!"

Shizam76 · 06-03-2005, 12:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pizzle

New to the board, just wanted to say "hello!"

Hello Pizzle! Welcome......where are you from?

ShoresGuy · 06-03-2005, 2:49 AM

Welcome to all new members

Tony E! · 06-03-2005, 3:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pizzle

New to the board, just wanted to say "hello!"

Welcome to WA....enjoy your stay....

telosian · 06-03-2005, 9:00 AM

Hello

Quote:

Originally Posted by Webmaster

__________________________________

Are you are new to the WirelessAdvisor.com Forums?

Drop into this thread and introduce yourself. We are all glad to have you as a member!

You don't have to post much...just post...HELLO!

Even if you aren't new, feel free to introduce yourself or welcome the new members.

Enjoy the WA Forums!

(Of course, none of this applies if you are a spammer...in that case you will find yourself quickly banned and all your worthless spammy posts enthusiastically wiped out!

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telosian · 06-03-2005, 9:00 AM

Hello

ShoresGuy · 06-03-2005, 9:52 AM

^Overly excited to be here judging from your 2 hellos

.

WiggyFife · 06-03-2005, 11:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by telosian

Hello

Hello to you too!!! What part of Canada are you from???

Tony E! · 06-04-2005, 12:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by telosian

Hello

hola.....welcome to WA...

Gamer03 · 06-04-2005, 7:09 PM

Welcome to WA to anyone that has recently joined!!

clsof2k6 · 06-06-2005, 8:04 PM

Im new, looking around but Hello!

Gamer03 · 06-06-2005, 8:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by clsof2k6

Im new, looking around but Hello!

Welcome clsof2k6.

People on this forum are friendly and very helpful.

Enjoy your stay!!!

05-29-2005, 3:31 AM	#121
JDTravellers I made my first post! Join Date: May 2005 Location: ANGOLA Posts: 1 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Best Sim Card Option HELLO, I LIVE OVERSEAS, BUT WOULD LIKE TO MAINTAIN A US PHONE NUMBER THAT WILL BE: A LOCAL NUMBER TO VENICE, FLORIDA WILL NOT BE CANCELLED IF NOT USED FOR PERIODS UP TO 9 MONTHS NO MONTHLY FEE PAY FOR USAGE ONLY WITH THIS CRITERIA IN MIND I OBVIOUSLY DO NOT WISH TO SUBSCRIBE TO A MONTHLY SERVICE. I OWN A NOKIA 6230 UNLOCKED PHONE AND HAVE A COLLECTION OF SIM CARDS FOR MANY COUNTRIES, BUT NOTHING YET FOR THE USA. I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY SUGGESTIONS ON AVAILABILITY. THANKS

05-30-2005, 5:39 PM	#125
PTCO911 Junior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Manhattan, KS Posts: 83 Phone(s): HTC Diamond, Motorola V3c (Wife), V9m Razr @ Provider(s): Alltel Devices: Motorola H 12 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: The Welcome Thread ! Hello all. I just discovered and registered on this forum

05-31-2005, 4:41 AM	#128
adgsteve Tower Hunting Addict Join Date: May 2005 Location: Seattle Posts: 514 Phone(s): Nokia 6230b, Nokia 3595 Provider(s): Cingular-Blue Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Images: 226	Re: The Welcome Thread ! Hello all, Recently found this place through a long time member here. I like the cell site gallery, and have started filling in Wash State. Won't have a lot of time to spend here but will continue adding cell sites to the gallery and post when I can. Thanks, __________________ ADG Steve Adapt to it, Deal with it, or Get over it.

05-31-2005, 10:44 AM	#129
NYCDru Sprint Newbie Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: NYC Posts: 3,255 Phone(s): Motrola V3m, Moto E815, Audiovox 9900, Audiovox 8900, LGvx 10,, Nokia 3360, Moto P8767 Provider(s): Sprint, Verizon(former), ATT(former), Devices: IPod Nano. Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: The Welcome Thread ! Your efforts are much appreciated. Welcome back as it were.

06-02-2005, 2:04 PM	#133
javorn holder I made my first post! Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: STVINCENT Posts: 1 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: The Welcome Thread ! do any one know the unlock code for the siemen s56?

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06-02-2005, 9:19 PM	#135
Dr.Dorothy I have arrived! Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 2 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: The Welcome Thread ! Hi, folks... I'm Dr.Dorothy, and my husband and I are looking to change our rate plans and possibly wireless provider -- probably also our phones, and frankly, we need some help. We use our cell phones as our only phones -- we do not have any "land line" phone service and don't want it. I still have the first cell phone we got some years ago now -- my husband lost his and has a replacement now. We went with AT&T Wireless when we first got our cell phones and service, and I guess we still are AT&T customers officially, even though our bills now say Cingular. We have old digital phones and service, and quite frankly, we should have investigated change years ago, but didn't get around to it. We really did NOT like the customer service AT&T provided in the past. But even more important than that, we find we are paying far, far too much for our phone service. Having talked to folks at Cingular, I know that we can get GSM (?whatever that is?) service and a rate plan and pay about half of what we are paying now, by going to a shared plan with rollover minutes. Thing is, we are almost certainly looking at having to agree to a one or two year contract, no matter what company, phones, or rate plan we go with, and ... things have changed -- a lot, it seems since we got our phones years ago. The technology has changed (at least -- hopefully progressed!) and there are a whole lot of new versions of alphabet soup achronyms with which we are totally unfamiliar, not to mention a plethora of companies, etc. The salesperson at Cingular said that GSM is the new technology, and digital is outdated. I think he said there had been something else between the two of them... I don't know what the heck any of these things are and whether I'm hearing sales hype or reality when he said that there is better reception and coverage with GSM than digital. He also said that Cingular, since the merger, has the largest coverage network in the US, but just a scan of posts on this forum suggests that that is not the whole picture. We live in Portland Oregon, and we don't need a lot of bells and whistles -- but we do need good coverage and reception, voice mail, caller ID, call waiting, shared minutes and rollover, nationwide coverage without long distance charges or roaming. (My husband has family in the Midwest, and I have family in Colorado, Georgia and other areas of the Pacific Northwest.) We would like to have better coverage in our own state than our digital phones/plans currently give us, as we like to go to the mountains and the coast where we currently do not often have service. One of the posts above in this thread mentioned a glossary -- where might I find that? ...and is there a repository of useful definitions and commentary on the various different technologies? Any and all help will be greatly appreciated. I'm very glad to have googled up this website today! Thank you all for taking the time to read this. Dr.Dorothy

06-02-2005, 10:04 PM	#137
RJB Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 7,139 Thanks: 39 Thanked 18 Times in 18 Posts Images: 96	Re: The Welcome Thread ! Dr.Dorothy I put your question in a place where it will be seen by more people. Here is the link http://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/sh...4095#post74095

06-02-2005, 10:57 PM	#138
Matt Busy chasing my son Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Lititz, Pa. Posts: 4,883 Phone(s): Motorola Cliq, BlackBerry 8820 Provider(s): T-Mobile Thanks: 4 Thanked 7 Times in 6 Posts Images: 2	Re: The Welcome Thread ! You can get to the glossary by clicking here: http://www.wirelessadvisor.com/Glossary.cfm It's also available from the WA homepage.

06-03-2005, 12:01 AM	#139
Pizzle I have arrived! Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 2 Provider(s): Cingular Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: The Welcome Thread ! New to the board, just wanted to say "hello!"

06-03-2005, 2:49 AM	#141
ShoresGuy Euer WA Experte in Europa Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: 94065,US/Köln, Germany Posts: 6,568 Phone(s): HTC/T-Mobile MDA II PPC, Motorola E770V Provider(s): E-Plus (BASE 12 month flatrate)/Vodafone Germany Devices: T-Mobile MDA II - GSM 900/1800/1900 w/WM 2003 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Images: 419	Re: The Welcome Thread ! Welcome to all new members __________________ Visiting Europe?Ask me: http://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/forumdisplay.php?f=10 http://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/showthread.php?t=8351 Nokia Reset Codes: http://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/showthread.php?t=7973 Originally from: Redwood City, CA Living in: Cologne, Germany

06-03-2005, 9:00 AM	#144
telosian I have arrived! Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 2 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: The Welcome Thread ! Hello

06-03-2005, 9:52 AM	#145
ShoresGuy Euer WA Experte in Europa Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: 94065,US/Köln, Germany Posts: 6,568 Phone(s): HTC/T-Mobile MDA II PPC, Motorola E770V Provider(s): E-Plus (BASE 12 month flatrate)/Vodafone Germany Devices: T-Mobile MDA II - GSM 900/1800/1900 w/WM 2003 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Images: 419	Re: The Welcome Thread ! ^Overly excited to be here judging from your 2 hellos .

06-04-2005, 7:09 PM	#148
Gamer03 Technology Aficionado Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: The Florida Everglades Posts: 8,632 Phone(s): BlackBerry Storm2 9550, Moto Adventure V750 (dad), Moto E815 (mom), LG Chocolate 3 (sis) Provider(s): Verizon (4 lines on a FS plan); AT&T (past) Devices: NB;GPS;Slingbox PRO;iPod 80GB;Kenwood DDX512 Thanks: 14 Thanked 16 Times in 12 Posts Images: 68	Re: The Welcome Thread ! Welcome to WA to anyone that has recently joined!! __________________ My Carriers: Cellular One (TDMA) [1998-1999]>>AT&T (TDMA) [1999-2001]>>Cingular (TDMA) [2001-2003]>>Sprint [2003-2005]>>Verizon Wireless [2005 to 2008]>>Sprint SERO [2006-2008]>>AT&T [2008 to present]>>Verizon Wireless INpulse [2009 to present]

06-06-2005, 8:04 PM	#149
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