CR Survey of 48,000 cellular users

Please check this....
Either they are wrong - or you mis-read.

Alltel isn't even in the Seattle market.


"SMS 斯蒂文• 夏" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
news:4755f2af$0$84232$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...

>
> -Alltel was #1 in 3 markets (Tampa, Cleveland, and Seattle)
>

Ness-Net wrote:
> Please check this....
> Either they are wrong - or you mis-read.
>
> Alltel isn't even in the Seattle market.
>
>
> "SMS 斯蒂文• 夏" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
> news:4755f2af$0$84232$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
>
>>
>> -Alltel was #1 in 3 markets (Tampa, Cleveland, and Seattle)
>>
>

Yes, my mistake. The third market where Alltel was #1 is Phoenix, not
Seattle.

Todd Allcock wrote:
> At 05 Dec 2007 11:01:35 -0800 Joel Koltner wrote:
>
>> These are all decent reasons that many customers would leave Sprint for,
>> certainly. (Although the very first, "excessive amount of dropped calls"
> is
>> probably likely to be no better with any other carrier.)
> Perhaps I've been blessed with my coice of T-Mobile, but I can probably
> count the number of dropped calls I've had in the past couple of years on
> the fingers of one hand.
>
>> Sure, I was just pointing that the somewhat smaller total coverage
>> area/phone selection/WiMax were *not* reasons most people would or
>> wouldn't choose Sprint.
>
> Agreed. My friends and colleagues who use Sprint seem happy enough. That
> goes double for those on SERO plans.
>
>
>
I think most experienced cell users (more than one provider, over many
years) would confirm that experience with coverage depends more on the
individual handset than the provider. For instance, here in rural MO,
on Sprint, wifey's Sanyo SCP-3100 is essentially useless until she hits
a major highway. My older Sanyo RL-4920 is usually at home, as well as
on the highway.

The only other MAJOR provider that has service (albeit flaky) in this
area is US Cellular. And, their coverage plans suck. I want service I
can use almost anywhere I travel in the US.

--
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At 05 Dec 2007 23:45:05 -0600 me@privacy.net wrote:

> I think most experienced cell users (more than one provider, over
> many years) would confirm that experience with coverage depends more
> on the individual handset than the provider.

Actually I find it's the opposite. While a crappy handset will give you
more problems, in my experience an excellent performing handset can't save
bad coverage.

Todd Allcock wrote:
> At 05 Dec 2007 23:45:05 -0600 me@privacy.net wrote:
>
>> I think most experienced cell users (more than one provider, over
>> many years) would confirm that experience with coverage depends more
>> on the individual handset than the provider.
>
> Actually I find it's the opposite. While a crappy handset will give you
> more problems, in my experience an excellent performing handset can't save
> bad coverage.

This is true. No matter how good the handset, if there isn't ubiquitous
coverage you won't be able to connect. In my area, Sprint and T-Mobile
have far less coverage for two reasons: 1) they were latecomers and
ended up with the undesirable 1900 MHz spectrum which requires many more
towers for equivalent coverage than 800 MHz, and 2) they are running
into more organized opposition to putting up more towers (which didn't
exist in the early days when the companies that morphed into Verizon and
AT&T began putting up towers) .

Cellguy wrote:
> Be careful that this doesn't violate the wiretap laws in your state.
> That's why police cruisers with dashboard video cameras don't record the
> sound, just the picture.

In your state. Television is full of police dashboard video tapes complete
with sound from wireless remote microphones.

--
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arrested for trying to arrange a sexual tryst with a 13-year old boy.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...72senate1.html

Cellguy wrote:
> Be careful that this doesn't violate the wiretap laws in your state.
> That's why police cruisers with dashboard video cameras don't record the
> sound, just the picture.

I'm sure that law enforcement agencies are exempt those laws.

On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:38:40 -0600, DTC <me@nothingtoseehere.zzx>
wrote:

>Cellguy wrote:
>> Be careful that this doesn't violate the wiretap laws in your state.
>> That's why police cruisers with dashboard video cameras don't record the
>> sound, just the picture.
>
>I'm sure that law enforcement agencies are exempt those laws.

I doubt very many such laws (if any) really exist. I used to have a
dash camera (w/ outside sounds recorded via an external weatherproof
mic) in my car, at the suggestion of a couple of police officers. As
long as you aren't following someone as to constitute stalking, you
are entitled to record anything that is plainly obvious on public
roadways. There is no expectation of privacy on public roads except
under limited circumstances within your own car.

clifto <clifto@gmail.com> wrote in news:u93m25-3pt.ln1
@remote.clifto.com:

> A staffer for Democrat Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington has
been
> arrested for trying to arrange a sexual tryst with a 13-year
old boy.
> http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...7/1203072senat
e1.html
>
>

Do we detect a touch of jealousy?.....(c;

Larry
--
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you're downloads threaten their networks......
.....are testing 100Gbps TV to sell on the SAME systems?
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