At 06 Mar 2007 12:12:19 -0800 SMS wrote:

> When I had Cingular CS was very honest about coverage issues. The
> online maps are more of a marketing tool, where it may not pay to be
>excessively honest.

I don't necessarily see stret-level detail maps as a marketing tool.
Vague Verizon-style area maps, with too low a resolution to show small
gaps in coverage, are marketing tools. Marketing types deal with
"strongest network" and "fewest dropped calls"- not "look, you'll have
two bars on the corner of Industrial and Rio..."

In fact, the Cingular maps have been so accurate up until recently, when
I saw that my neighborhood was now "covered" I immediately fired up the
network search on my phones to find the signal, but failed to find it.
(I was also curious to see if the network ID was Orange or Blue since my
market is an old ATTWS one!)