TDMA Minute Checking Available

Yes, I noticed that also. You can call their toll-free number and they have redesigned the menus. Its easier to follow and you can check your minutes used. You can check your minutes online and pay your bill as well. They just need to reconfigure 611 access because since the recent change you can't connect to them anymore. It's not easy to bring about 10 different companies (from which they were born) under one single operating structure, from the phone display, to the bill statements, to online account access.

 

Cool.

At&T is behind in that service

Jack

 

good for cingular. while they are progressing, sprint, which has been ahead of the game in letting you check minutes used.....is regressing. from now on dialing *4 to check account usage will now take airtime away from you. however, as i tell all spcs customers i talk to you can still check your minutes free online or by dialing *2 and simply telling Claire to 'check minutes used' or something to that nature.

 

Idiot, if you call Sprint's customer svc number, isn't there an option to check the minutes? It would be free that way. Whenever you call Cingular's toll free number from your cell it doesn't take your minutes away.

 

pardon.......for a moment i forgot we arent all sprint customers when i say *2 from your handset that is sprint Customer Service. at first you get that ever popular Voice Recognition person named CLAIRE...........but which you can ask "check minutes used" and she will tell you your account usage or you can also check your balance etc........*2 is a free call.......so is *3 which is where you can pay your bill over the phone with a CC or check.

 

Whoa...i guess being a GSM user has spoilt me. I always thought that daily updates to cell phone minutes was too long, I guess minute usage checking is actually new to some users here. I cant imagine that kind of lag time in reporting minutes, I wonder what switches we use that take this long to update CSR records. Must be some extremely old bay switches...

 

i just found out that sprint users will no longer be able to check account usage via *2 starting on august 28th. thus making the only way to check minutes used over the phone via *4 which takes airtime. the only free way is via the web. very stupid move on sprint in order to save themselves a few minutes of airtime they are eating into customers minutes.....its not that big a deal just check your minutes during N&W hours when airtime is more then plentiful; but I still view this move by sprint as very customer unfriendly and i strongly disagree with it.

 

Why Is Sprint becoming so cheap lately? They just seem to be getting worse and worse. Their maps haven't been updated in forever, their rate plans suck and aren't competive at all, and now they are getting rid of the free air time checking. Sprint PCS

 

Smarteqnology what I meant was if you actually dial Sprint's toll-free number (from your home phone maybe), can you check your minutes that way? With Cingular, if you dial 1-866-CINGULAR from your cellphone it does not eat up your airtime minutes. Can you do this with Sprint as well instead of dialing *2, *3 or *4?

 

well from what i know the toll free CS number you can call from home is the same as dialing *2 from your handset which is free........they both goto the same place. so i am assuming (and i will test it from home later) that if you call the toll free # from home and check minutes that way it will be unavailable starting 8/28 as well. they are leaving no loopholes on this one i think. they must want that airtime bad.

 

I've noticed how Sprint has that same control-freak attitude that AT&T has.

 

it didnt used to be this way ....sniff

 

I saw somewhere that Sprint charges to talk to a rep. True?

 

if you are a credit challenged customer who calls a live rep to check something that you can do with the automated system easily (like say check your balance or check you rminutes etc) they will charge you$3. if you are not on a credit challenged plan there should be no fee for CS period.

if you are a credit challenged customer who needs to speak to a rep for an issue that could not be taken care of automated they will waive the fee.

personally i wish that there was no fee period. basically CS has limited resources and i have seen a lot of customers call CS just to ask about minutes used or bill amount and all this info is available automated so they are trying to free up CS time from all that time wasting issues in order to deal with more problem related calls.

unfortunately sprint CS could use some help as a lot of the reps aren't too knowledgeable but i have also gotten great reps as well.

 

Perhaps they don't have enough staff or they are simply trying to keep costs down. It is ironic how credit troubled people get to pay more than those with good credit in any kind of business.

 

AT&T will be offering the service later this year (online checking of minutes used) but only for pcs (obviously).

 

Where on cingular's website can you check your minutes??

 

Enter your area and click on "Manage my account". Then, click on "View Minutes Used". If you don't see a "View Minutes Used" option then the feature is not available in your area yet.