[missing-sync-palmos-talk] [OT] Coverage

[Paul Berkowitz]

Thanks, Bob. I probably don't travel as much as you. I've never had any
problem in California. That was using AT&T, but my phone virtually always
showed "D" for Digital (as opposed to the really old Analog network also
available where Digital wasn't) and that might be the same shared network as
the Cingular GSM, or more likely not. Anyway, I never lost signal in my
limited usage. I guess I'll find out first hand in the months to come. (As
it happens, Verizon is the local phone company in my city/county, but not in
much more of California, though. No connection to wireless, of course.)

-- 
Paul Berkowitz


> From: Robert Williams <bobwilliams at knology.net>
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> Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 03:42:34 -0500
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> Subject: Re: [missing-sync-palmos-talk] [OT] Coverage
> 
> Paul,
> 
> When I lived in New Mexico, Verizon was the only carrier that would let you
> get off the interstate and still get a signal (even then, Verizon was always
> more robust and reliable)
> 
> I enjoyed the same coverage when we moved to Alabama - except a lack of
> coverage when we were in Talladega (we were there for a Nextel-sponsored
> NASCAR race and everyone who was not on Nextel was having problems so I am a
> bit suspicious about that data point! :-)
> 
> When we switched to Cingular briefly this year, I went to the same places I
> went with my 2 year old Verizon phone and had problems making calls. Even in
> my office, where I always had 4 bars with my Verizon I could not get a
> signal with Cingular.
> 
> And don't even get me started about the RFI a GSM phone puts out. . . HOW
> annoying! I could always tell when I was getting a incoming call because I
> would hear static and white noise on my car radio just before the phone rang
> (I was told by Cingular tech support that this was just the nature of the
> GSM beast).
> 
> I traveled with the Cingular for 2 weeks and can categorically state that
> coverage with Verizon was vastly superior to what I received with Cingular
> (same locations, different times but different services and Verizon was
> always bulletproof & Cingular would simply drop calls in major metropolitan
> areas [while driving] - I assume this was an artifact of passing from one
> cell tower to another.
> 
> So there you have it Paul - my story of Cingular.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Bob 
> 
> 
> On 5/1/05 1:27 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <berkowit at silcom.com> wrote:
> 
>> Several of you have said here you're waiting on the Treo 650 until Verizon
>> carries it because Verizon's coverage is better. You mean nationally, or in
>> your neck of the woods? And how do you come by that knowledge? - all the
>> website maps are pretty small-scale.
>> 
>> Cingular seems excellent in California, where I live and drive. And of
>> course they cover all major cities and population centers, where I'll fly. I
>> don't particularly care about the back roads of distant states.
>> 
>> I did note that someone said that Verizon has a CDMA (?) network, not GSM.
>> The Cingular salesman on the phone did say that CDMA was better and was what
>> they have "in Europe". Not surprisingly he did not mention that the
>> competition here also has it. What's the scale of the difference?
> 
> 
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