<p>i used to have cingular and didn't even get reception at my own house... Yeah... that lasted long.</p>
<p>Ahhh! I'm confused!! But thanks for trying to help you guys! =)</p>
<p>I loved AT&T. Then they had to go and merge with Cingular.</p>
<p>Cingular service is great. I really don't get my calls dropped very often and I get strong signal in the most bizarre places. However, Cingular customer service? Sucks. A LOT. Especially for the customers who got dragged over instead of choosing to go to Cingular. </p>
<p>I also have a Verizon phone. My phone calls get dropped more frequently, it's true, but it also tries harder to stay on the line before it drops it. I also have signal in the same places -- better, even, than my Cingular phone.</p>
<p>For what it's worth, my family's switching from Cingular to Verizon as soon as the Cingular contract is up in October.</p>
<p>Cingular is the best. Lots of people don't receive signal from Verizon or Sprint when they are in the rooms and hate their lack of service. I guess it depends on what region you live in.</p>
<p>^um, i don't know who you mean by "everybody", but most people here are saying otherwise.</p>
<p>indecided,</p>
<p>i have called cingular customer service many times and they were very helpful, esp when i had to get a new phone after mine broke. but then again i was never with att so i didn't have to go through that whole merging thing. but cingular def beats SPRINT. ugh, friggin sprint.</p>
<p>Cingular is going back to being AT&T in I believe first quarter 2007. They have tried to remove the stigma associated with being AT&T by becoming cingular and now they are readopting the name...however, for completely superficial reasons, I really think cingular is a better name.</p>
<p>^i agree.....and their little orange stick/blob man is so much cuter than the att zebra globe</p>
<p>T Mobile is good. I don't get reception only in underground places.</p>
<p>Cingular hates the AT&T customers, in my experience. I have no doubt that they're awesome if you start with them -- honestly, like I said, their actual cell service is the best. They just refuse to service us because they don't like the phones AT&T gave us, and we refuse to upgrade the phones to the Cingular versions of the SAME THING and thus renew our contract.</p>
<p>It's really more the way they've handled the acquisition that soured it for us. That, and they're not very nice when you have to make adjustments. In our experience, they don't feel like working with you. But if you pay on schedule, buy extra services, make sure you're up to date with your devices? Golden.</p>
<p>But we're still switching to Verizon.</p>
<p>I have Verizon and have no complaints. I'm in NJ and don't know anyone here who doesn't have Verizon...most people at school in Vermont have Verizon as well. It may not be the best everywhere, but in the northeast Verizon basically blows all the other providers out of the water.</p>
<p>I have Verizon, and I live in SoCal. I've haven't had any problems.</p>
<p>i'm also wondering about this question.</p>
<p>i'm in norcal now, but i'm almost 100% i'm going to socal for college.</p>
<p>i have verizon now, which has had NO problems, but i want to switch to cingular becaue of the better phones.</p>
<p>any reception, area problems that should restrict me from switching?</p>
<p>Ok, so I decided that I'm gonna go with a GSM carrier. I guess that means- correct me if I'm wrong- that Verizon and Sprint are out. As I understand though, in the US, you buy your cell with the plan; thing is, I already have a cell (Sony Erricsson P990i) and I intend to keep it- so can I just buy a sim card from either Cingular or T-Mobile and use my current phone?</p>
<p>I have verizon but I will say this, their phone selection sucks. They've gotten some good phones lately but they're astronomically expensive. Usually they just have cheap, crappy, featureless phones while the GSM carriers (since overseas, no one uses CDMA anymore, and Nokia has finally cut off both sprint and verizon since they are the only CDMA networks remaining) get all the brand new phones and they're usually pretty affordable.</p>
<p>That's my one huge gripe with verizon- they're expensive and the phones suck.</p>
<p>Cingular has the best coverage</p>
<p>i got reception in the Bahamas and some islands</p>
<p>i go to the asian stores and i'm probably going to get the new samsung d807 for free.</p>
<p>such a sexy phone.</p>
<p>either that or i'll get the lg chocolate for verizon for free.</p>
<p>i still don't get how phones can be "sexy". i mean, yes i know it's just a saying or whatever, but really...a phone? maybe a car...but a phone...</p>
<p>anyway, ignore this post....</p>
<p>I love my new phone (Motorola e815). </p>
<p>I use Alltel, though. Alltel's National Freedom plans work great since my family travels so much for business and school activities. I don't know about Verizon, but Cingular doesn't work too well in my area.</p>
<p>I don't get the "sexy phone" thing, either...or why a cell phone would be named "chocolate." Meh.</p>
<p>sexy is lost on you both. :(</p>
<p>whatever brian. haha.</p>
<p>but the whole "chocolate" thing is kind of catchy. i mean, i wouldn't but a phone b/c of it, but i get the marketing and the whole "it's small like candy, so we'll wrap it as if it were candy and a whole bunch of 17 year olds will thinks it's candy and buy it" thing. </p>
<p>but why the hell did they not make it in some way BROWN. the whole phones black and it's called "chocolate". that's a little stupid. they could've made it really really dark brown and it wouldn't have looked too bad. a little like a turd, but whatever.</p>