I'm in San Luis Obispo. I found one area today that is crap. We have a
long grade the goes from atascadero to San Luis Obispo. There are lots
of high mountains in the area. (Radio Hill) Where all the radio and tv
towers are. Verizon has solid coverage where cingular drops twice in a
few mile stretch. This is my 1st area I've found that cingular lags in
coverage. None vs great with verizon. You can't find all the area's to
compare during the 15 day trial. But to be fair, there are areas that
are better with verizon. But this no coverage is not good news. This
area is known for major car wrecks. And with this being a Radio tower
hill, I would have though there would be no problem.

SMS wrote:
> 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?
>
>
> [Copied to alt.cellular.attws. Please post all alt.cellular.cingular
> posts to alt.cellular.attws as well. The Cingular name is going away,
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