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Originally Posted by catback
I had AT&T when cingular bought it. Things were fine until cingular started to make things more unpleasant. I had a TDMA which had more coverage area than GSM with AT&T but all the sudden the phone was roaming in places it didn't roam before and it didn't end there, they changed the AT&T on the display to read Cingular. I don't know if cingular employees think customers are morons that don't know anything about cell phones except how pick it up, but I knew what was going on. I knew they were trying to push me to GSM because they didn't wanna support AT&T's TDMA and they also didn't want to lose the money I would pay whoever would take up AT&T's TDMA contracts. Anyway that was months ago and cingular has lost my business simply because I never liked GSM, them, or their hassles. I'm currently with Nextel and although they aren't the AT&T I had before they are good enough.
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You are somewhat right about that. Cingular hates offering Digital service. The love people who will use their GSM though. GSM is heaper to operate, and allows them to offer more. They have reduced the power output to the towers to save cost, but as a result shortned the range of the signal. They are required to by law to offer digital service to those who are making use of it now. But they have definatley done everything they could to try and get people over to GSM quickly, without breaking any laws to do so.