<p>Now its a Tri Band phone that supports all GSM bands. Now, I hear Verizon is the best for Winston Salem and most of North Carolina. I cant take VERIZON since its CDMA.</p>
<p>I must take either Cingular or AT&T or T Mobile or one of the GSM networks. I hear all of these have terrible coverage in smaller towns. But I am at a position where I have to pick the better of the two bad.</p>
<p>Can anyone offer me any insights? Which one covers the campus best after Verizon. Any better than Verizon?</p>
<p>most people i know who don't have verizon have either cingular or sprint. since sprint is the one used by most of my friends from the midwest and also not one of your options, i'd suggest cingular, but i can't back that recommendation up with anything other than "i know a lot of people who have it."</p>
<p>Hey, I live in the suburbs of Winston-Salem and Cingular does fine when I'm in town and in the university area. People I know with Sprint have not been happy with their service, and, unless things have recently changed, T-Mobile does not serve North Carolina...you'd be roaming the whole time.</p>
<p>sprint is gsm. I think.
so I guess cingular is my best option. I'm still concerned about blank ots with cingular. I hear many people don't get coverage even in their house.
does anyone here use cingular?</p>
<p>When my daughter and I visited Wake at one of the accepted student's day we checked out the strenghth of signal of our Cingular phones and had no issue inside dorms or classrooms. I don't think you will have a problem with dropped calls eith Cingular.</p>
<p>Are you sure that phone supports all bands? Looks to me that its only a tri-band phone, and therfore it doesn't support the gsm 850 band, which is important to Cingular in the US. Both the 1900 and 850 bands are important, actually. Not to say you won't get coverage with cingular, but without the 850 band, you won't get GREAT coverage...it'll probably suck, to tell you the truth...you would be better off ditching that phone and getting one with verizon or cingular...or maybe getting a unbranded, unlocked QUAD-BAND phone off ebay to use with cingular</p>
<p>well, i cant ditch the phone cause i just got it. and there are basically 6 options in my phone:
1. GSM 900
2. GSM 1800
3. GSM 1900
4. GSM 900, GSM 1800
5. GSM 900, GSM 1900
6. Auto TriBand</p>
<p>I think the option no. 5 is the one i would have to use there. but id better research before i get it there.</p>
<p>well...like i said, the 850 band is very important to cingular...there IS NO 900 band in the US, just 850 and 1900, the other 2 bands are the international bands (the US is too cool to be normal like the rest of the world and use 900 and 1800, kinda like the whole metric sytem thing ;) so....the best would obviously be to have a phone capable of using the 850 and 1900...you will get service with that phone with cingular, just probably not great service, and of course it depends on location...where I live, the 850 band is necessary for cingular, and it might be relativly necessary in winston-salem as well</p>