Cingular vs VZV in Salisbury, MD and the delmarva peninsula

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I know that airport well, there should be Verizon coverage there. Ask some one if their phone works there. Lots of General Aviation pilots will be hanging around the FBO,(Fixed based operator) office. They will all have cell phones. Also there are some commuters there, ask them what service they use.

As to Cingular you did not say what kind of phone you had, You did not say if you were on ATT service before it was taken over by Cingular., that may be important there.

RE: Bars of signal strength; forget them for the moment and see if you can make and hold on to calls.

 

I second.

What phone do you have?
Can you make and receive phone calls in your house?
Do you hold or drop calls in your house?

 

No, this is not true.

 

yeah Cingular CS
dialing 611

 

Re: Cingular vs VZW in Salisbury, MD and the delmarva peninsula

You mentioned that the Cingular guy mentioned that a small airport can interfere. Well that is mostly untrue. And if it did it would be on rare occasions, like if your in the vicinity of a plane who is powering up its radar transponder you may get interference or cut off, but that is really a long shot. I have had this happen once in many decades of flying.

Also;there is an FAA facility there while the public terminal is not like Phl, JKF or BWI, by General Aviation standards it is well equipped. As I mentioned there are lots of people at the facility who you could just ask which carrier they have and what works best in that area. If they tell you that Cingular is working well there,then its not Cingulars fault. But since you have 2 phones
they may be weak there. And then you may have to beg your way out of the contract.
Best of Luck.

 

Re: Cingular vs VZW in Salisbury, MD and the delmarva peninsula

Cingular is the best in Delaware. They have really good coverage on the eastern shore as well...but its 'weird' coverage. It's a mix between ATT PCS, T-Mobile, and Cingular (old old Cellular One that just merged into Cingular in 2003?). The old Cell1 network isn't completely converted...or it has holes along 301 in which ATT or T-Mobile take over. You'll get 5/5 bars everywhere, but probably some dropped calls between the networks. I have no idea why!

Verizon's really weak on the eastern shore and overloaded in many places in Delaware.

I have no idea about either carrier in Salisbury though. Sorry

 

Yes, the airport Tower/building is between their CellTower
and your House. After I looked at a Tower Map.

 

Why don't you find a big cheese at Cingular who will understand your problem ( hopefully) and ask for them to wave the fee. It has been done. You will need to tell them who told you the wrong info.
good Luck

 

Re: Cingular vs VZW in Salisbury, MD and the delmarva peninsula

And if you head further south into the VA part of the Delmarva peninsula you'll run into Triton PCS exSunCom that is now Cingular as well. In many cases the two operate from the same tower! The tower on Jarvis Farm Road in Northampton County is a perfect example of this...

 

Cingular can cover 95% of DE and miss 5%;
and that 2% of the 5% could be your House.

 

Does anyone know if the Cingular service has improved on Delmarva?

 

Well they just added another cell site in Dover (better covering Dover Downs and the Dover mall) and another one in New Castle county on route 896. So, it is improving. Nextel and Cingular are doing the most expansion in my area.

 

Well that's good to know, even though I didn't seem to have a problem in June it could have been the COW's they were using. So when I go back next June I can expect to continue to have good reception with Cingular & now Nextel. Thanks for the update Airb.

 

I've been with both and Verizon Wireless works best.

I switched to Verizon Wireless because of better phone service in Maryland and the the Eastern shore. My only problem with them is how they nickel and dime you to death when you want to put something on your phone like your own music or your own photos!:nono:

 

Re: I've been with both and Verizon Wireless works best.

Thats why you buy a hackable phone or you learn all the hacks for your own phone.

 

There's a lot of info on the internet.
Here's an example:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=674803