kingfrog77 said:
I have had mobile service there for 8 years and I know ATT TDMA was great but their GSM just got boosted big time with the use of Cingulars assets. Cingular is also great there. My daughters and my Dad has them and have no complaints. Cingular cannot use ATT assets yet but still has a huge footprint of coverage there as well. I would not go with Teen-Mobile there.

You really can't go wrong with any of the other Carriers, In that town shop for the phone you want, then pick the Carrier who will giv you the most value. You won't go wrong with any of them in Las Vegas and the SW corridor in general.

Thats good advice...

Yes the are indeed but they are giving up needless bandwidth that ATT will easily cover.
And the "better" coverge will not be due to area but less clogging of the oversold networks if that is even going to happen as cingular will still be using the towers in a roaming deal.

T mobile has the most gaps in coverage in Las Vegas and is behind the others nationally so they offer more useless minutes and focus on frills like ringtones. This deal is not particularly good for them. Thats why the gov is forcing cingular to sell them bandwidth to fill the holes this deal is creating. That bandwidth will fill many holes but Cingular/ATTWS will swamp T mobile in nationwide GSM coverage not to mention analog and TDMA,

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kingfrog77 said:
T mobile has the most gaps in coverage in Las Vegas and is behind the others nationally so they offer more useless minutes and focus on frills like ringtones.

Have you ever used T-Mobile service in Las Vegas to say that. I mean, it does not make sense to say "Oh this is no good because I say so."
A person replies: 'Have you tried it.'
The ignorant says: "No but that's what I think."

When you know five people who have ported out of a Carrier and are now satisfied with their new Carriers, I would say that is enough for me. Sometimes another person's word of mouth experience saves personal aggravation. I never owned a Yugo but knew not to in my "ignorance" as you imply. IN these cases ignorance is truly bliss!

That said I know of those who ported out of ATTWS as well but I do have more personal experience there and my experience does mean more. The Carrier of choice was Cingular in most of the cases, which I don't understand in the ATTWS cases as they will be one company anyway....must be the phone choices. They got the V400 which is not available on ATT. A couple who travel extensively went to Verizon and are happy the...
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Kingfrog, you are really getting to be irritating. Just a little while back you you were slamming Verizon constantly until enough people told you to shut up. Now you seem to have moved on to T-Mobile. Yes, we all think its HILARIOUS how you have taken the name and made it "Teen Mobile". Maybe you could say it a couple more times for me so I can laugh some more? Funny how T-Mobile is the fastest growing company in wireless if the only people who are buying it are teenagers... I know you think you are very well informed, but why not try listening to somebody who sells and uses both T-Mobile and Verizon. Every carrier is trying to market games and ringtones and "frills" right now, because those features and downloads are pure profit. Th...
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I'm very proud of you!

But as I am someone who does deep research before signing away a year I have learned a lot and just like everyone else sharing that with whomever wants to listen. I do not have an ax to grind I do not sell phones or work for a specific provider i need to defend and protect.

I'm just a lowly customer trying to find the best solution. It's not Teen Mobile (an apt name judging from their specific advertising target which does not take an ad exec to see)
It also most likely will not be self aggrandized Verizon until they post a map showing where they have the massive coverage other do not as they claim.

T-Mobile is great if you don't travel too far from your home area by car and the coverage in those regional ar...
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In spite of all your "research" you are still quite ignorant. I have no axe to grind with one particular carrier, because I deal with three of them (Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T Wireless). Best Buy and Circuit City are not "resellers", they are indirect agents, or dealers as they are sometimes called. And when dealers give bad information it is usually because of poor training or an over-zealous effort to make a sale. Regardless, it IS the service that those merchants care about selling, not the phones themselves. Phones are a negative profit ALWAYS. Any dealers makes their money from commissions paid by the carrier to the dealer for selling SERVICE. In the case of Verizon, I lose at least $100 on every phone I sell. That gets made up...
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i agree, I am ignorant and take no offense at that term. I am learning and am sharing what I learn from others. I learned today that I called resellers, what are really indirect agents and the rest of the multi service offerers. Regardless, one of the things I have learned from reading the employee issues is that the indirect agents and multi provider agents are a lot of the CS issue. As such I will only deal with a factory or corporate store. My experience with other than direct corporate sales has been met with much ignorance. My ignorance plus their ignorance equals a mess of misunderstanding, CS issues , LNP issues and the like to a greater extent than one would have with Carrier empoyees. I'm not making this stuff up. I'm learning this ...
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