Re: Leave Cingular for Verizon?

I have both and prefer Cingular. The Cingular rollover minutes and not
having a phone with half the features blocked is worth it for me.

I don't live near a major city and Cingular seems to have the better
coverage in my area. My verizon phone has the most dropped calls and worse
signal.


"Malathan" <malathan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Wanting feedback from those who switched from Cingular to Verizon and
your experiences regarding the two companies.


I am a cingular customer who is tired of their cr@p and am looking at
switching to Verizon. Unfortunately in switching (either to Verizon
or renewing contract with Cingular), I will lose my 7pm evenings and
lose 200 minutes (family plan). I am an AT&T grandfathed customer.

If I renew with Cingular, I will get rollover minutes, which will
offset the lost minutes and calling time. Verizon doesn't have that.


Currently I have a Sony Ericson 637 phone (both family lines) and have
notices over past 6 months to get increasingly dropped calls and
static when calling between them. The phones, while over 2 years old,
support blue tooth. I recently got a headset and find I get static on
it quite a bit. I suspect the phone is the primary culprit, but also
believe a lot of the dropped calls, voice echos, and static are due to
Cingular as well.


So for those who have switched from Cingular to Verizon, what is your
experience? Better/worse call quality? Areas of service that are not
as strong as Cingular (I am in Portland OR)? Should I bite the bullet
and stay with Cingular given the lack of promotional offers with
regards to rollover minutes or early call times with Verizon?



- Clayton


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