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Cingular and their crappy Mercer County, NJ GSM Reception

Discussion in 'Northeastern US Wireless Forum' started by dday64, Dec 10, 2003.

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  1. jones

    jones Silver Senior Member
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    I think they really need to Merge.


    WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - Shares of AT&T Wireless surged Tuesday after another report that SBC Communications might seek to acquire the wireless phone company.

    Earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported that SBC and BellSouth, co-owners of Cingular, have expressed renewed interest in a merger with AT&T Wireless (AWE: news, chart, profile). Rumors of such a deal have percolated in the market for more than a year.
     
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    #31 jones, Dec 23, 2003
  2. peteynice

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    This surprised the hell out of me. I live in Monmouth County and have a NYC number so I figured I had to be part of the NYC market right? Nope. I am part of the "Long Branch/Asbury Park Market" somehow. Happily, that is still a top 100 market so I could switch but it still surprised me.
     
    #32 peteynice, Dec 23, 2003
  3. bobolito

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    That's right....Although Monmouth is not part of the NYC market, it is still part of the T-Mobile/Cingular sharing agreement.
     
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    #33 bobolito, Dec 23, 2003
  4. njsvrzncdma

    njsvrzncdma i cant stop the ringing..
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    get away from 1900mhz....Verizon will get your call through
     
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  5. jones

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    i believe VZW also uses 1900 MHz in NYC in Addition to the 850, which they bought from NORTHCOAST PCS.
     
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  6. dday64

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    Ever since I called Cingular to complain a week or so ago I SWEAR my service has gotten WORSE!

    Normally at work I can get 2-3 bars, except when I'm in the breakroom where I lose service for some unknown reason. However, earlier this week I lost reception completely for THREE HOURS! And I've been in and out of "network search" so much at work this past week that my battery is almost drained by the time I leave.

    And I usually am able to send text messages from my house (if my phone is right by the window, go figure), but the past two days its been very hard to. Today I've been trying to send a text message for an hour and it's STILL NOT WORKING! It's either "Message Not Sent" or "No Network Available!"

    ARG!

    All I want is a wireless company with bluetooth phones and a better coverage area in Mercer County than Cingular [​IMG] T-Mobile looks good, but everyone is saying no so I'm inclined to believe them, especially since I travel in NJ a lot - at least most places besides Mercer i can get signal with Cingular. Sprint and Verizon do not like Bluetooth.. what about AT&T?

    If I could get my Siemens unlocked and switch carriers I'd be happy - but getting unlock codes is going to be a hassle I'm sure, and who knows if I can switch my # to a new carrier yet. Even if I got the Motorola V600 which I guess TMobile and AT&T are getting that'd be nice.. who knows about Cingular with that one.

    Someone else here posted that they put their # into a website and it let them know if they could switch or not - where did you find this? Nevermind, I found it: NUMBER PORTABILITY STATUS: NO - You may need to wait until after May 24, 2004 to move your phone number to a new wireless company.

    BAH!!!

    I'm sure some of you know how aggrivating this is.

    Oh, on another note - I can get the same thing with T-Mobile as I can through Cingular (plans and features) for half the price, heh..
     
    #36 dday64, Dec 25, 2003
  7. RichXKU

    RichXKU Once had +5 dBm RSSI
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    Because it's served by Cingular site #1 on the big brown FCC building right in the mall complex (4 bright white panels per sector). Go 2 miles into Yardley and you're screwed... No 850 control channels!
     
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