Reccomended Phone Companies for Good Reception?

<p>Any current students have any reccomendations about what companies get good reception on campus, in Syracuse, and in NY as a whole? I have to change companies soon, like from Sprint to T-Mobile or Cingular, because my dad's phone is dying and Sprints sucks ass. Cingular is the best in the bay area (around San Francisco) and my mother's side of the family has it, but my Dad needs to set up his own account, not tack onto my moms, so he and I can get a new phone. (Likely RAZR v3 or SLVR L7 YAY hahah!)</p>

<p>im finna get a sprint. do they really suck ass??</p>

<p>I'd get Verizon or Cingular for Syracuse, I live out the boondocks about an hour north of SU and Cingular works fine out here as well as 'cuse and Ive heard from friends that Verizon is great in Syracuse but I dont have any experience w/ it.</p>

<p>Hmmm I just mailed a Day RA about Cingular or T-Mobile, and she said definately T-Mobile, she has it and she loves it. What have you heard about T-Mobile, dmonnat29? </p>

<p>I'll email her back too, telling her what she thinks of your comment.</p>

<p>Melo, who knows, maybe Sprint is great in your area. But it drops our calls a ton and gets bad reception a lot too. And this is in San Francisco.</p>

<p>Cingular is supposed to be the best for SF + vicinity though.</p>

<p>It looks like Cingular may cover more of the area around Syracuse on thier map. Hmm...</p>

<p>fak. I just found out my dad sneakily went and bought the plan/phones without me. We have T-mobile now. Ah well, maybe this thread will help others. I'll still post whatever Shannon, the RA, says.</p>

<p>so maybe i should get cingular.....but no............sprint has better plans!!!!!</p>

<p>at my school lol only asians have t mobile.</p>

<p>lol. Btw i learned something from T-mobile today. Verizon and Sprint are the only phone companies that dont use the card system (GSM i think its called?) that's used practically world wide. Which means i can take my new t-mobile phone (which happens to be enabled for woldwide use, and if it wasnt i could activate it) to another country and buy a local card there and just stick it in. Since sprint and verizon work diff though, it's probably more difficult to deal with if you travel abroad. I traveled abroad jsut last summer. What did i do... I think i abandoned my sprint cell and jsut bought a pay phone card, or something like that.</p>

<p>btw, on letstalk.com service ratings, Verizon=1, t mobile=2, nextel=3, cingular =4, and sprint=5 of 5. Verizon has way more coverage than the others (they conveniently show a map for each.)</p>

<p>I dont know anything about T-mobile, they dont offer service where I live, but from the sounds of that SU RA you talked too it must work pretty good in Syracuse.</p>

<p>damn. i might just be getting a t mobile. lemme check out the plans. how can nextel be 3 and sprint be 5 when theyre the same thing basically.</p>

<p>^^^Nextel had different satellites from when they were seperate companies. As for me, I had Sprint for about a year and frankly, it sucked. I now have Cingular and it's alot better. I don't know about the other providers though (By the way, I live in Syracuse)</p>

<p>I'm getting rid of my new hot pink RAZR phone that came with my T-mobile service plan in San Francisco... :( because T-mobile doesn't get reception at my house!! LOL! BUGGAH!! I'll probably get cingular. sounds good. roll over minutes!</p>

<p>i got a cingular. ce500 with a mp3 player *****eeeeeeeeeeees.</p>

<p>I'm a sophmore at cuse, I would say definitely definitely go with verizon or cingular. My friends with tmobile and sprint have a lot of problems and they don't work in the dorms at all most of the time. Verizon sometimes doesn't work in dorms either but in general it's fine.</p>

<p>thanks!!! i'm definately going to get cingular once my mom gets a new contract.</p>

<p>I have T-mobile (they were cheapest, and I was broke) - I was in Day hall last semester, and would sometimes have to go by the window to get decent reception, but 99% of the time I had absolutely no issues, anywhere on campus. I even had reception for quite a distance out of town.</p>

<p>It <em>is</em> a fairly 'large' city of around 100k people, so the coverage is quite decent. I'd say, just go with whatever is cheapest.</p>

<p>ooooh faleenes gettin a cingular. call me baby <em>winks</em></p>

<p>yea i love my phone its great. not that good of a reception at home tho. oddly enuff.</p>