As of June 16th, I am officially no longer a Cingular customer. It is slightly sad, as I have been with Cingular since they began operation in Washington state. I do not remember when that was, but I remember T-Mobile was still called Voicestream. Now that was a long time ago.
I did not want to switch, as I am a huge fan of the rollover minutes, but the dropped calls was simply killing me. I know Cingular is the carrier with the fewest dropped calls (or so their commercials say), but that statement simply did not apply to me. I would say, conservativly, about 40% of all of my phone calls dropped. Usually between the 15 and 45 minute mark. It was frustrating. And before you ask, I tried different phones (all Motorola’s ironically enough), and my calls were still dropped all the time.
So, to alleviate the problem (hopefully), I switched to Sprint. I have heard some bad things about Sprint in the past, but I figured they were the lesser of the two three evils (Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon), so I went with them. Actually, I think Verizon is the lesser of the three, but also the most expensive, so Sprint won. I should be posting some thoughts on Sprint and my already returned Samsung A900 and newly acquired LG Fusic in the near future (maybe).
What carrier do you currently use?
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Totally feel you on the dropped calls. I’ve had so many of those over the past 2 months. In fact, they cut my bill in half and added 200 minutes to my time because of it. Good luck with Sprint though, a friend of mine had them - not good.
Really? That’s not a bad deal. So far Sprint is great (no complaints). The service/reception is hand-over-fist better than the service I was getting with Cingular. And, they have affordable internet access, which is a must for me. There was not way I was paying the $50+ Cingular wanted when Sprint was offering faster speeds for only $15.
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