Interesting... (MA)

If you could have, a nice photo of both the billboard and the phone showing the 2 bars in the same image should have been taken and sent to Cingular.

After trying out several prepays over six months, I finally went with T-Mobile for postpay (and I can thank the disagreement between the local Cingular store and Cingular customer service for it.)

 

:lol:

Isn't that false advertising on Cingular's part?......j/k.....:smilebig:

Thanks for sharing that with us Gideon.

 

just like Bobo said

When you are good, you can afford to lie a little bit and still get away with it. But when you are horrible, nobody is going to believe you otherwise, so you better be honest.

This reminds me of one of the Posters here in WA but
it was in Wisconsin where there was a
"Can You Hear Me Now" Billboard.
The Billboard was right on a Dead Zone.

 

Raising the Bar
means
"More Bars in More Places"
than any Other National Carrier
and not "Full Bars in All Places"


This is what they mean
http://www.cingular.com/cingular_advantage

 

Cingular advertising the number of bars is misleading. My phone might have less bars than your phone yet have a better signal.

Bars on phones are not a good indicator of reception since different phone manufacturers have different measuring scales.

What really counts is how the phone works with your carrier when and where you use it not the number of bars it shows.

 

GH, your phone could have had 5 bars if in a call though. Hey, as long as it works, right? Imagine if calls always dropped there, that'd irritate people. I know Verizon had a billboard in Miami, and there was a Verizon and ATT cellsite right next to it, which was cool. Too bad that site was further away from my hotel than the others, leading to poor ATT GSM (I had gophone then) and Verizon service!

 

It's a good thing we don't have a signal strength meters on our car FM radios. Everyone would complain that the bars are poor, while enjoying the music. Reminds me of the Ham days. We would always relate the guys received signal (which btw is half the fun) while still hearing him clearly and carrying on a good conversation.

Remember, in advertising, Perception IS Reality.

Good story though. I have one of my own that is very similar.

 

These ADS
raises the question of WHERE?
Like Can U Hear Me Now? Can u Hear me Now Where?
In Iowa or Washington?

 

Isn't there a blue tower right next to that billboard (in a self-storage lot)?