Which cell service sucks the least?

A couple things to keep in mind.
Analog/digital is nice, for anoth 8 months 2007 is drop dead for analog, and congress has indicated another reprieve will not be granted (despite excessive lobbying by my industry... no analog will pulverize (at least initially)the fire/burg alarm industry)
But also there are differences in individual phone antenna signal gain reception. With Nextel when I had my i90 I had signal everywhere including my house (big time BFE).
Since we got blackberries I dont have signal for 2-3 miles down the road, I was shocked it could make this much difference!
Not sure how you would find which phone has best service, but there is a difference from hardware to hardare
 
I know part of the problem is the phone it's a Nokia 3585i and has not worked right from the first day, locks up bad signal. I called the second day and was told that the phone need replacing.
 
Caver Dave said:
I had Nextel for 10+ years... great signal anywhere along a major highway, but sucked in "more rural areas"...
Had Cingular for about 14 months... just plain sucks ANYWHERE other directly beside a tower! Including my house near Rural Hall which seems to be at the fringe of coverage :mad:
11 months from now, my plan is going to Verizon (unless there's some major sucking up from Cingular & the tower count gets fixed! :shaking: )
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Well I have Cingular pay-as-you-go and the main problem I've had with that is that you don't get the "roll over minutes". That is, until I finally went out to Uwharrie on 4/1. I got all the way to a gas station on 109 and stopped to top off, and tried to call the wife. Phone worked fine.

Twenty miles later, at Eldorado Outpost, I got ZIP. "No coverage" or whatever the little message said.

Does Verizon offer pay-as-you-go too, or any of the other services? I don't use the thing anywhere near often enough to merit a "regular" plan.
 
ive heard the complaints about cingular but it works well for me. Verizon has terrible service in Wilmington if you're ever around here and it does not work too well in the south of charlotte area...ie weddington, waxhaw
 
We have Verizon and we have had very little problems. On all the four wheeling trips we have went on if there is a tower in the vicinity at the top of the mountain we have service when people around us with other cell companies do not. It could be the phones, but the ones we have were just the special buy one get one free they were offereing at the time we signed up 3 years ago.
We had a little problem with them not honoring the "free minute time" and "mobile to mobile", but after we contacted them it was staightened out.

Crystal
 
THAT's what I was just gonna ask! I took my Cingular pay-go out there and lost service about 20 miles out from the Outpost. Got a Tracfone over the weekend just to see if it would work there next time I can go. That, plus according to the ad and user guide, any minutes ("Units") still on the phone don't evaporate as long as you buy more by the "due date" that displays right on the screen! Cingular's do. I had about $20 or so still on it when the time limit hit and they all just went poof. The same thing happened once before when I bought more even a few days before the time was up. And nothing at Uwharrie, right where I'm likely to need it MOST? Nah. Let me see how Tracfone does instead.

Don't get me wrong, when you're using Cingular where there IS service it's okay. But I understand Tracfone uses signal towers from several different services, whichever one's closest.
 
I lost service from Alltell out at Richlands the other day..

It was on the back portion, out at Penley Road. I had service all the way through, but then it was gone when I came out haha
 
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