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

[Robert Williams]

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?