In my experiences, Cingular does have some flaky technology. A client
put his cingular broadband card into a Sony Vaio laptop and caused a
complete system failure. Hard drive reformat required.

The downside is that Verizon technology is solidly pro-verizon.
There's very little you can do to change a verizon phone to another
carrier. From what I've seen, Cingular phones provide much more
flexibility with international roaming and adapting to the local
networks.

Dan

On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 12:22:06 -0800, Malathan <malathan@comcast.net>
wrote:

>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