"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
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> jeremy wrote:
>
>> AND, my Sprint phones hop over to Verizon when there is a "hole" in the
>> Sprint network. No roaming, either. And in areas served by only AMPS my
>> Sprint phone can make and receive calls, unlike most of Cingular, whose
>> phones don't work on AMPS.
>
> Note that you can roam onto Cingular's AMPS network with both Sprint and
> Verizon tri-mode phones. Cingular users, other than the few percent that
> haven't switched to GSM, can't use the Cingular AMPS network. Cingular is
> chomping at the bit waiting for 2008 so they can turn off AMPS.

I wasn't aware that Cingular even HAD an AMPS network!

Did Cingular ever sell AMPS service? Bag phones?