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According to ATT tomorrow is the day... |
robertk232
Joined: Jul 26, 2002
Posts: 22
From: Portland Oregon
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The day that their GSM network will be as good as their old one, reception wise... I'm seriously doubting that over night it will change...
DAMN DIRTY LIARS! |
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geo2k
Joined: Dec 26, 2002
Posts: 307
From: UK
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They might have been working on it for a while and not said anything till now
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robertk232
Joined: Jul 26, 2002
Posts: 22
From: Portland Oregon
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They've been saying that for a long time... When I first switched to GSM in like August or so, I called ATT because I switched beacuse they said it would be "better" then my current setup. Customer Service Rep said that since they are building the new network it will take time and that by the end of the year (TODAY!!!) it would be as good or better. I know other people on here have heard that too, I'll have to see. |
Psykotik
Joined: Jan 18, 2002
Posts: 476
From: the safety of my padded cell
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Or perhaps because of the ridiculous amount of drunken nobbers using the network at the same time (12 00) it might crash and die a horrible death
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Deric
Joined: Oct 06, 2002
Posts: 10
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AT&T said that by today, we would be at 75% of our TDMA coverage. by dec 2003 we should be at 98%. I'm sorry if whomever you spoke to was confused/misenformed, but that's what was said initially.
By the way, due to the joint venture with Cingular, AT&T's GSM coverage should surpass it's TDMA by dec 2003. however, this is not official and is only my opinion...
Deric
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rj
Joined: Jul 14, 2002
Posts: 95
From: +63
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...dont think SO. |
T68iFan
Joined: Oct 18, 2002
Posts: 214
From: Los Angeles
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@Deric
Any updates on when MMS will be supported?
Attention AT&T! You'd better start supporting MMS or I'm switching to T-Mobile!  |
highrez
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
Posts: 3
From: Seattle, WA
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Deric,
You said that "due to the joint venture with Cingular, AT&T's GSM coverage should surpass it's TDMA by dec 2003." - but it appears that the only ones bennefiting from this joint venture is the cingular customers. I grabbed a cingular sim and a t-mobile sim while at my old telecom job (already had the att sim) and noticed that cingular customers could roam onto att's network but not the other way around. Now since there is prolly a reciprocal comp agreement (similar to the way CLECs would get payed if the LEC terminated a call on their network or vice versa), that means cingular pays in some sort of way (credit system, cash comp) for everytime one of their users jumps on an ATT base station. But ATT users can't do the same. So whose benefiting from this deal?
1) Cingular customers - they have access to more base stations
2) AT&T Wireless - they prolly receive some sort of comp everytime a cingular customer user uses their network.
Whose not benefiting?
1) AT&T customers. They're not allowed to roam onto cingular's network - i guess cause AT&T's too cheap.
So when are AT&T customers gonna have the same perks from the deal as cingular customers? |
Deric
Joined: Oct 06, 2002
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@highrez
the joint venture is building new towers. ATT customers CAN roam on cingular towers, but there aren't many of them. I assume once we start building towers (@ $3M a peice) you'll start to see the overall coverage fill out. |
Deric
Joined: Oct 06, 2002
Posts: 10
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@T68Fan
I asked about a MMS date yesterday, no one knows. |
robertk232
Joined: Jul 26, 2002
Posts: 22
From: Portland Oregon
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Too bad Cingular isnt available in Oregon... |
kevinqian
Joined: Dec 30, 2002
Posts: 9
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Does ATT have a roaming agreement with T-Mobo? Since T-Mobo has the largest coverage in the US. |
Deric
Joined: Oct 06, 2002
Posts: 10
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the official reaoning for not having a roaming agreement with T-mobile is that in a year/year and a half we'll exceed their coverage.
PS To everyone comparing t-mobile and cingular to ATT: T-mobile has been doing GSM for almost a decade, Cingular is made up of 11 companies (a few of which were always GSM) and how long as AT&T been doing GSM? one? maybe one and a half years?
AT&T is THE BEST TDMA carrier, give some time to shift their assets and you never know what will happen.
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kevinqian
Joined: Dec 30, 2002
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wow Deric u sound like some big time player on the ATT executive board who knows what everything is up to...what are you? 
The company T-Mobile was newly named after the German T-Mobile bought out Voicestream and officially switched their name sept of last year. I have t-mobile now and from what i see with their aggressive ad campaigns they are also working very hard....possibly in the area of increasing coverage. I also heard that you guys are developing 3GSM technology with W-CDMA soon. Does this mean that all the GPRS stuff now will be outdated in a matter of a year or so? The fact that you guys have better minute plans is very enticing but I would switch over to ATT GSM if only you guys had better coverage and a better GPRS plan like T-Mobo's 1mb T-zones for $2.99.
Thats just my opinion...no need to start an argument  |
eagle11769
Joined: Aug 15, 2002
Posts: 5
From: Michigan, USA
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@Deric Do you work in the Canton Michigan store. You sound like a guy that works in that store.Man you guys tell your customers anything. Im with ATT now because of contract but not fore ever. You guys at att get a kick out of being erogant asses and filling your customers heads with crap! |
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