Roaming

depends on where in the country...

 

in that neck of the woods you are about 90% cingular network coverage... with small pockets of Tmobile...

you can tell what network you are on by the "alfa tag" on the screen... ie... your phone reads cingular on the screen... your on the cingular network...same for Tmobile

 

Cingular has no roaming agreements in NJ with T-Mobile, since they are the only 2 GSM carriers in NJ, all of your reception is with Cingular.

 

If you're using a phone that Cingular sold to you then you will not know unless you make some modifications to your phone. Cingular branded phones by default override the alpha tag and always display Cingular, no matter what network you are on.

-Jay

 

you can see the alfa tag with a manual network search

 

how would i go about doing that on a LG CU320?

 

I went here...https://onlinecare.cingular.com/support/chooseDevice.do?universe=cingular&make=All

I dont see that menu item....most phones you can...

 

a cingular tech told me that it's "hard-coded" on my sim and that there is no way to alter my phone from saying 'cingular' even if i'm roaming.

 

It is not. I have changed all of my Motorola phones to display the true network name instead of Cingular for all networks.

 

I'd check on HoFo under LG modding and see if anyone there knows. I only had the LG CU320 for 26 hours before I couldn't stand it anymore.

-Jay

 

thats one of my only complaints against cingular is specifying where your roaming on the phone and the map

 

I agree or at least have like the TDMA phones did & say "Cingular Extended".
if they are worried people would see another name on their display

For most people this isn't a problem though & I think that's what Cingular was thinking when they did this, it's the people that either relocate or send their children to college in a roaming partners area that causes problems like this.

 

yes but if i had cingular i would want to know if im spending time off cingular's native network roaming and know what im roaming on so i can change to the network i end up roaming on the most

 

If you manually switched your phone to another carrier where you live, then you have to worry about the 50% rule kicking in on you.

I do understand what your saying & did like manually switching networks when I could on my Blue phone, or if I am out of my area & can switch carriers manually.

Normally though depending on where you live, they limit the ability to roam on another carrier, where they have native coverage.

I do think they should have the display say something else to show you that your using another carriers network, they just don't want you to know, so you think your always on their network.

 

that just goes to show you that they are run by snobs who want to make the nation think that nobody will ever be better than cingular theyre way too proud