EVDO rev O has been out since 2004. How can they not be sure if it works. I just don't think data will ever be US Cell's cup of tea. I mean they focus on low end users who don't travel outside of their calling area. You really need a high revenue Subscriber base to get a ROI on the network upgrade. I mean how many months did US Cells Blackberry roll-out get pushed back?

US Cell is a low cost regional provider. A cheap regional calling plan is about the only reason to go with them.

actually this isn't as true any more with there new minute plans and not having local plans just "wide area" and "national" plus having separate family plans it use to be you could get a local plan with 1000 min. for $39.99 and add a phone for
$15.00 thats $55.00 now a similar wide-area family plan would cost $70.00 i could goto sprint and get similar plans but alas I'm forced to go with uscc

You missed my point and the point of the financial statement.

They stated that they were testing Rev O already but waiting to see how REV A would turn out. That makes a HUGE amount of sense finacially. Test Rev O in select markets... Then see how Rev A goes. Once Rev A succeeds or fails then move forward with Network upgrade instead of investing millions in something that may not work.

SOme people call it slow but when you are Super Regional company and not as big as the others it is the smartest way to do business. Ever notice that some of these companies that RUSH to be first with stuff often have major problems and have major customer dissatifaction?

Its just smart planning. As an agent that relies on USC's products for my way o...
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yes i see your point definitely but you are looking over one of my initial questions when is uscc gonna get real internet on every phone not just easyedge or nweb which works on like 10 phones released in the last 2 years i mean internet is a proven to work there are smaller companies that have internet access for example if anyone has heard of midwest wireless they are very similar to uscc and have it

Yes you are right... I missed that. From my sources I hear USC is TOTALLY revamping EasyEdge and their EV-DO service should be launched just before X mas. These may just be rumors.

On the subject of Midwest Wireless... I have to chuckle. I have heard of them, but never done any research. My fist thought is that they are a small company and must be owned/backed by a larger TelCom and not to my surprise this is true.

The funny part is that one first and probably largest shareholders of this privately owned company is TDS Telecom. The company that owns over 50% of non other than US Cellular.

I'll have to do a lil more research but here's a quote...

...Today, the privately held company has 65 shareholders, 60 of which are local phone...
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to funny that this is true 🤣

I think it is pretty funny that drksyd or w/e his name is got disproven by deadpsycho and drksyd is supposed to be a sales rep for us cell. Do you actually work for them or do you work for a company that sells them (like OT Communications) I have had uscc and they had good service but easyedge was about Pathetic. I browsed for about 4 mins and bought 2 ringtones and when my bill came the charged me 20.00 for prepaid Browsing just for those ringtones. I got the plan with my mom and brother and i got the free phone (The SoHo) And it was the worst Buy That i ever made. The only good phone that we did bye were the Nokia's and the
LG's And i will go with them again when they get internet which will Probably be never.

Where is it that I was disproven? There were no instances where anyone was trying to prove anything.

dead psycho asked when USC would get real internet. I answered the question by stating from my sources USC plans to launch EV-DO around Christmas and that there is also a major overhaul of EasyEdge coming.

He asked if anyone had heard of Midwest Wireless. I replied yes, did a lil research and found out an interesting FACT that TDS the majority stock holder of USC is also the majority stock holder of Midwest Wireless. This proves/disproves nothing. Its simply a fact that a company named

Telephone
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Systems felt it was a good investment to buy stock/back Midwest. TDS does not make the decisions for USC or MW. They ar

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I Did not post that reply. Sry to every that read it. Long Story Short Freind was pissed at me and wrote that Sry. dead said ur a good guy. and i believe what dead said and im glad that ur not with ot or cellular specialist caz the ones i have been to have ripped me off

Are you sure it wasn't one of your other personalities? 😛

LOL just kidding. I didn't take offense to it. I just wanted to be clear in my statement. Good reason never to share your passwords or save them automatically on your puter that others have access to.

uscc locks the browser built into phones so you will have to buy nweb to geton the internet. 😡 😡

You get what you pay for. If you want a hunk of junk free phone then you can get that but if you want a good reliable phone you have to spend money.

This is like complaining about buying a pinto for 100 bucks compaired to buying a bmw at 50k.

Oh and Dead_Psycho,

Not saying Midwest is a bad company at all as it seems what I have read about them so far is that they are a very good LITTLE company.

They have a very small licensed market territory in three states which consist of a few counties and have 700K customers.

The reason I emphasized "little" above is because being a small wireless provider like that would take far less resources to switch their network to EV-DO. Unlike USC they have relatively few towers comparatively speaking. Just less costly for them to rollout that service.

Hope what I have told you in this thread helps.

yes i see that but what im mostly talking about is the fact that such a small company has any internet at all when such a large company such has uscc doesn't have any at all even when they have the technology and half of the phones they get either have web browers or would have come with a web browser if they were on a differant company

They are owned by Alltel now. Up until about 2 months ago they were owned by TDS, parent company of US Cellular. US Cellular received $100M from the sale of Midwest.