On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:23:14 -0700, TROLL SMS
<scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in
<45f70836$0$27239$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>:

>Greg wrote:
>> I'm confused. Hopefully someone has an answer or can point me to a
>> source. Every year our family takes a winter break in St. Thomas. The
>> last couple of years I had no problem getting good cell service. This
>> year I struggled. The earlier years I had a Nokia 6340. this year I
>> have a Sony Erickson W300i. One of the capabilities I made sure of
>> before upgrading my phone was that it was a full quad band unit.
>> Supposedly the SE is.
>
>(sorry, I forgot to copy my earlier reply to alt.cellular.attws)

No apology needed or desired, since you partial copies to
alt.cellular.attws are only serving to pollute that newsgroup with crap.
Please have at least some consideration and STOP. Post if you want to
either/both newsgroups, but STOP spewing partial threads.

>When you had the 6340, which was a GAIT phone, are you sure you were
>always on GSM rather than TDMA or AMPS? That is probably the reason for
>the reduced performance with the new phone--you can't use the older
>networks, which often provide better coverage.

Not true.

>Even if it were GSM that you were using on the 6340, Nokia handsets have
>much better RF performance than Sony-Ericsson phones.

Also not true.

>CDMA coverage on St. Thomas is very good, so next time maybe bring along
>a prepaid CDMA phone, though I'm not sure that prepaid will work there.
>My kid's prepaid PagePlus CDMA phones couldn't make calls in Canada.

Also not true.

>[Copied to alt.cellular.attws. Please post all alt.cellular.cingular
>posts to alt.cellular.attws as well. The Cingular name is going away,
>and alt.cellular.attws is the proper venue for posts regarding AT&T's
>Wireless Service.]

See above.

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