Unlike U.S. Cellular, Cingular has failed to offer speech recognition dialing and speaker phones on their mid and low priced phones. They also seem uninterested in adding these features in the future and I believe this to a key selling point to U.S. Cellular over Cingular Wireless. Cingular says these features couldn't be added to GSM technology, but I believe this to be untrue, Motorola and LG both said it is up to the carrier as to what features are incorporated into a new handset...any input would be appreciated.

With Cingulars Media Net feature for $24.99, does that include when you use tethering(sp) or is there a different more expensive feature to hook up your phone as a wireless modem?

I prefer an anwser from a CSE rep or orange care.

Thanks!

First I would like to say, I feel like I feel like I am gong back in time. At this rate, I will never migrate from ATTWS. I have been waiting for the new plans to come out so I could save some money on my bill & stop wasting minutes every month. I don't know how everyone else feels, but i think that hiking up the costs is a bad idea & will drive away new & existing customers.

I think that Cingular bit off more than they could chew. How you ask? I have noticed that since Cingular acquired ATTWS, all the good stuff has gone out the window.

Attws was very good about offering competitive rate plans & comparable equipment. When i activated my service years ago, I had about 1000 anytime minutes/8000 night mins @ 8pm for $89.99 & each addit...
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Does anyone know when this phone might be coming out ? Also has anyone heard of any Nokia Flip phones coming to Cingular or does nokia not even make flips ??

Thanks

Is Hot Springs, Arkansas (AR) 71913 GSM 850 or 1900?

It is a well known fact that everyone will battle over which carrier is better, which one is the biggest, or which one is the best.

Cingular has the largest customer base in the US, which is over 40 million customers. T-Mobile has under 20 million customers, but if you add in Deutche Telekom, they have over 50 million. Verizon was the largest carrier for quite some time.

T-Mobile offers 3 day weekends
Cingular offers Rollover
Verizon has great equipment

My point is, no matter what company you work for, or which one you subscribe to, each company has their own perks.


No matter what you say, someone will always try to beat you (I am sure someone will try to do it here). Just remember:

It doesn't matter how large your "carri...
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Cingular has previously announced that there would be a broadband speed, UMTS network launched starting in portions of the country in the fourth quarter. Right now, EDGE covers a large portion of the GSM network, which i've found that the Allover network is indeed just that. The coverage without question cannot be outdone, with inclusive data coverage in the same areas.

The best coverage and EDGE data speeds will probably only get better with the intoduction of UMTS. One of the really neat features is video calling, and hopefully the handsets are affortable, at least $300 or less on a two-yr agreement. Can anyone imagine video calling capability over Cingular's national network, we're talking 48 million now...that's more than totally awes...
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Anyone having trouble with their direct bill charges? It seems like to me that i'm being charged more than I buy, also if i dont recieve a download link, can i still challenge it and get my refund?

OMG I can't beleive this happened to ME! I had this customer who called me to ask me what Java was. And I just went blank, I have a basic idea of what it is, but for some reason I just could'nt put it on words to her. I felt so stupid... so I transferred her to cust care; she also wanted to cancel one line....

I have been reading some threads of people freaking out cuz rollover is on $50+ plans... so, I went on cingular.com and looked myself. Now I wonder, where are getting this info from. the $39.99 plans still have rollover. Look for yourselves. At least in my market zip 32224 we still have rollover on the Nation plan $39.99

I just got a unlocked MOtorola v620 and works great except for voicemail. When I get voicemail, it comes out as a text message asking me to "read" it. I don't get the voicemail icon. I asked Cingular tech support without luck; they tell me to call MOtorola for software update. But MOtorola tells me it's a Cingular problem.

Has anyone encountered this problem and if it was fixed? thanks in advance.

Okay, the place I am working for is supposed had a contract with ATT, and we're able to get a 19% discount. I had an existing plan with Cingular, which, as we all know, is one with ATT now. So I walked into a store, and had the store reps check my ID and note my account (I'm not active duty, but as far as I can tell, the discount still applies to my organization. the store reps were hesistant though). I did that about two or three weeks ago, an they said that the request would have to be proceesed. Hwoever, I check the bill that just came out, and there doesn't appear to be any discount. (I was told 7% before here and in the store, 19% on the website for our organization). The issue is, there doesn't appear to be any kind of discount,...
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Thanks to a few of you, I haue been able to get my ipaq 4155 connected to my motorola 551 phone and to gprs-so i think.

However I am still unable to browse web pages. I always get the message 'page not found'. I tried adding static dns addresses, but still no go.

I suspect that dhcp doesn't assign ip or dns entries properly.

Have any of you been able to get this to work ? If so can you share your settings?

Regards,
Don S.

I am looking to buy a Motorola brand bluetooth headset for a freind cheap. Got any offers???

I was at gsmarena.com and it said that the v551 only got internet speeds between 32-48 kps. Is this true? i thought it would be faster because the phone is edge capable.

Sup with all these PTT phones? Do you think Cingular will ever unveal their PTT and do you think it'll be anywhere as good as Nextel (soon to be sprint)??

This one has been bugging me for awhile. Does anyone know, or has a theory, as to why we cannot right-click on the taskbar any longer. I know this has been in effect for several months, but I've never received a straight answer as to the reasoning behind this and was wondering if anyone out there knew.

😁 I know that there are several Cingular reps in here. Got a question. For us all to work @ the same company it looks like that all of us have different info on certain things. Aren't we suppose to be the same company state to state. I just see that in some markets that info is totally different that what you see, hear, & are told to do in other markets.

Does anyone know how a name can be voice stored in the phonebook for the Moto V551? I have been trying to figure it out from the useless manual that comes with this phone. And does Cingular charge to utilize this option? As in is this an extra service?

I finally waited for this to come to the v400 and i must say itsnot worth paying 9.99 a month unless you're going to listen to the news or the sports channels. The audio sounds bad (like a voice record). But i wanted to know if theres an app that just streams music.