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Network Size - AT&T's is bigger than Cingular's...

aws_chris

Jun 3, 2004, 9:24 PM
Just to make you all aware, this is FACTUAL information:

Before you go making any uneducated decisions, I thought you may like to know that physically, AT&T Wireless does actually possess a larger network than Cingular. These roaming enhancements that everyone comes cracking down on AT&T for also benefit Cingular. For every person that says "I have AT&T and I didn't have coverage where I was, but then these enhancements came out and I did" there is a person that says "I have Cingular and I didn't have coverage where I was, but then these enhancements came out and I did". At least AT&T gives all their customer's the benefit of the doubt and their phone's alpha tag says "Cingular". Most Cingular's phones say "Cingular Extend" when they are ...
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VZWCustServ

Jun 4, 2004, 4:47 AM
Considering AT&T basically invented cell phones and has tones coverage in ALASKA(even outside of the cities) and AT&T built a cell tower in antartica(sold it to U.S. govt and it's used for radio communication down there now) I would say you could be safe in saying that AT&T's network isn't something to laugh at. An oldy, but a goody. Why do you think Cingular dropped 40 billion dollars to get it?
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NeumZ

Jun 4, 2004, 1:12 PM
...cause vodafone kept upping the bid.
although att does have a great TDMA network, i just feel that they did a sloppy job with rolling out gsm and keeping it srickly 1900.
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muchdrama

Jun 4, 2004, 3:07 PM
NeumZ said:
...cause vodafone kept upping the bid.
although att does have a great TDMA network, i just feel that they did a sloppy job with rolling out gsm and keeping it srickly 1900.
Vodafone may have kept upping the bid, but VZW is right on...ATTWS's network is nothing to sneeze at.
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