Boomer wrote:

> 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.

It's places like those, outside the urban areas, where Verizon has the
greatest advantage over Cingular. I carry a prepaid phone on the
Cingular network just to compare coverage when traveling, and the
difference in coverage is tremendous, especially if you have a Verizon
phone that is tri-band (versus digital-only).

Cingular's "fewest dropped call" claim is a hollow joke. First, they
have never presented any evidence for the claim, and second, it doesn't
take into account calls that can't be placed in the first place due to
lack of coverage.