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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?

05-29-2005, 3:31 AM	#121 (permalink)
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 (permalink)
PTCO911 Junior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Manhattan, KS Posts: 79 Phone(s): Motorola RAZR2 V9m, Nokia 6255i (Wife), Motorola RAZR V3c (Son), Motorola V3c Provider(s): Alltel Devices: Dell Axim X30h, Motorola HS850 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 (permalink)
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	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 (permalink)
NYCDru Sprint Newbie Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: NYC Posts: 3,243 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 (permalink)
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?

06-02-2005, 9:19 PM	#135 (permalink)
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 (permalink)
~~RJB~~ Banned Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 7,040 Thanks: 35 Thanked 13 Times in 13 Posts	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 (permalink)
Matt Super Moderator Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Lititz, Pa. Posts: 4,652 Phone(s): BlackBerry Pearl Provider(s): T-Mobile Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	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 (permalink)
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!"

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