I should add that I'm in The Silicon Valley. The Cingular GSM dead spots
were the Southeast Hills of San Jose, the city of Mountain View near Moffet
Field, and the ritzy golf communities of La Quinta, California.
"Cubit" <no@not.not> wrote in message
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> In the last week I just switched to Verizon after many years with
> Cingular. My reason for changing was that Cingular never did improve their
> coverage in several spots I needed it. So far, I seem to have solved my
> coverage problem, but 39.99 is double my 19.95 plan cost of Cingular. Ya
> gets what ya pays for...
>
> The switchover was perfection. One minute the Cingular phone was working
> and the next the Verizon phone had my phone number that had been at
> Cingular.
>
> When I found that the free Verizon phone came without a belt holder, I
> called for phone insurance. The woman told me I had a $50 deductible and
> signed me up. Last night I went through the paperwork they sent me and
> discoverred an extended warrantee that has no deductible for phone damage
> or loss. I called again and got the upgrade for $1 more per month.
>
> I don't care for the free ringtones that come with the phone. At least
> one of them should be a basic traditional phone ringing sound. I guess
> they want to force you to pay for a ringtone.
>
> I tried to leave an outgoing message on the voicemail that was longer than
> they allow. Oh well....
>
> There were problems processing my order. Verizon did not phone me about
> them. I had to call Verizon twice to get things resolved. Then Verizon
> Fed-Ex'd the phone overnight at no charge. So, there was a week of
> stupidity, and one day of instant service. (I had changed my home phone
> number. I had notified my credit card company, but the credit bureau did
> not yet know my new home number. Thus, my Verizon service was held up.
> Credit bureaus do not accept phone number changes from the public. It has
> to come through creditors.) Verizon should have called me about the
> credit verification problem.
>
> That is about all I can gripe about, so far.
>
>
> "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
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