"Malathan" <malathan@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Wanting feedback from those who switched from Cingular to Verizon and
> your experiences regarding the two companies.
>
>
> I am a cingular customer who is tired of their cr@p and am looking at
> switching to Verizon. Unfortunately in switching (either to Verizon
> or renewing contract with Cingular), I will lose my 7pm evenings and
> lose 200 minutes (family plan). I am an AT&T grandfathed customer.
>
> If I renew with Cingular, I will get rollover minutes, which will
> offset the lost minutes and calling time. Verizon doesn't have that.
>
>
> Currently I have a Sony Ericson 637 phone (both family lines) and have
> notices over past 6 months to get increasingly dropped calls and
> static when calling between them. The phones, while over 2 years old,
> support blue tooth. I recently got a headset and find I get static on
> it quite a bit. I suspect the phone is the primary culprit, but also
> believe a lot of the dropped calls, voice echos, and static are due to
> Cingular as well.
>
>
> So for those who have switched from Cingular to Verizon, what is your
> experience? Better/worse call quality? Areas of service that are not
> as strong as Cingular (I am in Portland OR)? Should I bite the bullet
> and stay with Cingular given the lack of promotional offers with
> regards to rollover minutes or early call times with Verizon?
>
>
>
> - Clayton

I really can't knock Cingular as I've never tried it but Verizon has been
great as far as coverage goes with very few dropped calls & only in areas
where the signal was weak to begin with. We just got back from a trip to
Hawaii & we had coverage on all the islands including all around the park of
Waimea Canyon in Kauai and the top of the Haleakala Crater in Lanaina at
10,000 feet altitude.