Re: Change phone without renewing Cingular contract?

I'm in the bay area and have heard that GSM service is not very good
here, and I'm am going to need a new phone soon. I don't know if I can
even find a "new" TDMA phone, but if I did, could I switch it with the

Your not hanging on to much. From what I heard TDMA is a dying horse.

Looks like someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into the 20th
century with GSM GSM is the way of the future.

Er, 21st century, n'est-ce pas?

But I agree. I switched to GSM about 1.5 years ago, knowing that I would
temporarily lose some coverage in rural Georgia (near where I live). GSM is
catching up fast and I'm not having problems.

Here is their *current* GSM 1900 coverage map:
http://www.gsmworld.com/cgi-bin/ni_map.pl?cc=us&net=be

For a map that includes roaming:
http://onlinestorez.cingular.com/cell-phone-service/maps/pop_mapfinder.jsp?fromzip=zipcode&zip=90001&x=0&y=0

They claim to cover the San Francisco Bay Area quite solidly. What they
don't cover is the north central states, but roaming fills that in.




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