Kevin Weaver wrote:
> With verizon you could check your use by seeing it in there free web
> browser. I had all the extras turned off.
>
> With cingular, I have the same. Everything turned off, but got the txt
> message yesterday telling me of the usage. I don't how it can send me
> that when I have it turned off. But as long as it's free then thats
> fine. But If I start to get the other spam like others were talking
> about then I'll call and make sure that won't happen from that point on.
> And if that causes the mins used to not come to me then thats fine as well.

I wish Verizon would allow only text messages from Verizon, and no
others. I'm sure that they could, but they don't want to, as punishment
for not giving them text message revenue.

Verizon knows what's best for their customers; they are protecting us by
disabling functionality in their handsets that we might want to use for
purposes that they don't like.

I don't blame you for abandoning Verizon. I would love to change
carriers, but unfortunately the coverage problems with Cingular, Sprint,
and T-Mobile in the San Francisco Bay Area don't allow it. Cingular is
improving, I've especially noticed improvement out in the east Bay, but
they are still far behind Verizon, especially in the rural areas and
greenbelt (due to AMPS). It'll be interesting to see the surveys in Jan
2009, once AMPS is turned off in some areas, and after Cingular has
another two years of working on their network, but for now Verizon out
here is like the oil companies with the law of supply and demand, "We
have all the supply, so we can demand whatever the $%#@ we want!" The
only positive is that among professionals it's rare to find a
non-Verizon customer out here, so most calls are mobile to mobile, so
people can get by with lower numbers of peak minutes. It's not just the
voice coverage, it's the wider high-speed data coverage.

Where are you located that Cingular is only slightly worse than Verizon?


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