No More Lashing out at Cingular's prices
I just did a side by side comparison with the plan I currently have with Cingular (which includes rollover, text messaging, data plan & international coverage). Looked at Verizon (it's closest competitor) which has the same nationwide coverage area as Cingular. Guess what! After viewing plans side by side by side including features such as data plans, text messaging etc. . .Cingular is the comes out ahead because of the rollover*. Without the rollover Cingular and Verizon came out to be the same. Did the same with sprint & t-mobile, sure their basic plans are cheaper but they lack in coverage.
So I guess you're gonna pay no matter what. If you need the coverage you need to pay or else go some where else and not be connected.
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So I guess you're gonna pay no matter what. If you need the coverage you need to pay or else go some where else and not be connected.
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roll over is a gimmick, if you are rolling over enough minutes to make a difference, you are on the wrong plan and paying too much to begin with. 🙂
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Not a gimmick if you are already on the lowest voice plan available, plus if you look at it from a gimmick perspective, "free incoming" is a huge gimmick as well. 🙄
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what benefits you more, some one calls you and it doesnt eat into your any time minutes, or you are on a 900 minute plan and only use 600, so you roll over 300 and do that for 3 months and then you figure out you dont need that many minutes and lower you plan and find out you cant keep all those minutes that cingular advertises "you payd for them anyway, why not keep them?" because they only let you keep equal minutes to the plan you are changing too. if you are on the lowest plan cingular has, you dont get roll over anyway.
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great points! Cingular works for some, for others it is Verizon Wireless, for me it is T-Mobile, and for my friend it is Sprint.
All carriers have noteworthy pros.
All carriers have noteworthy pros.
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usage differs from month to month with every single customer so don't give me the rollover is a gimmick obviously you're not a cingular customer , probably a verizon employee???
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You hit it right on the money! Occasionally I have a high usage month and that's where the rollover benefits comeing. Besides the next plan down which doesn't have rollover doesn't have enough minutes for me. So I'm I paying too much for what I need compared to what other phone companies have to offer? NOT!!! 🤣
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nope, never have used verizon, i'm a former cingular/attwireless employee. the truth is most people do not benefit from roll over. you need to monitor your usage for 3 months then get on the appropriate plan. and by the way, I still have cingular service as well as tmobile.
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T-Mobile gives you plenty of minutes on your plan, so you never need rollover.
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What good are so many minutes if you are always out of range from one of their towers? Let's see what happens with all these new 850MHz roaming agreements and their expanded coverage? With T-Mobile you never have to worry about going over because you get so many minutes. With Cingular, you never have to worry about going over your minutes as long as you have some banked from previous months.
I would take the better coverage so that I could actually use the minutes.
And with 54.1 million other Cingular customers, so many calls are M2M that I will never go over. I can save the banked minutes for months when I have exceptionally high usage provided that I use them within 12 months.
I would take the better coverage so that I could actually use the minutes.
And with 54.1 million other Cingular customers, so many calls are M2M that I will never go over. I can save the banked minutes for months when I have exceptionally high usage provided that I use them within 12 months.
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I'm in dallas texas, coverage is not an issue with any of the nationwide providers except for sprint. (my wife has a sprint phone) really think about it. how many months of the year do you go over your minutes? and when you do, how many minutes are you going over? how many minutes do you roll over? if it is 100 a month or more, you are really probably on the wrong plan. I know there are people out there whose usage is never consistant and roll over is probably a godsend to those people, but for the average phone user they are really better off on a plan with the correct amount of minutes
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T-Mobile provides outstanding coverage to most large population dense areas throughout the country. In my city T-Mobile's signal is stronger than Cingular. My friends who have Cingular are always complaining that they can't get any signal in thier apartments.
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Check out the data costs (mainly mobile web). Cingular is out of the ballpark as far as that is concerned.
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Sorry, Cingular "Data" plans are compareable with other "Data" plans. If you only intend to use mobile web you wouldn't want "Data" plan anyways. 😛
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Verizon is 15/month for unlimited mobile web AND Vcast Video. Cingular is 20/month for just unlimited mobile web. How is that competitive?
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Actually I was in both a Cingular and Verizon store and cingular's coverage map had less coverage than Verizon.
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Of course Verizon shows better coverage that Cingular.
Cingular started building the GSM network in ?2001/2002? . Before that it was their TDMA network which didn't have a 3G path. Also, Cingular does not have licences to provide service in many rural areas and sometimes entire states, and therefore depends on the network build outs of its roaming partners. If they are slow, what can Cingular do? The same applies to Verizon.
Verizon has not changed technology platforms since it moved away from analog. EV-DO EV-DV and 1xRTT are upgrades to CDMA.
If Verizon didn't have a better coverage map I would be concerned.
Cingular started building the GSM network in ?2001/2002? . Before that it was their TDMA network which didn't have a 3G path. Also, Cingular does not have licences to provide service in many rural areas and sometimes entire states, and therefore depends on the network build outs of its roaming partners. If they are slow, what can Cingular do? The same applies to Verizon.
Verizon has not changed technology platforms since it moved away from analog. EV-DO EV-DV and 1xRTT are upgrades to CDMA.
If Verizon didn't have a better coverage map I would be concerned.
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