Whats your idea of Cell Phone Companies focus?

[semaj]

What your idea of Cell Phone Companies focus?

Verizon= ~~~~~~~~
Cingular=~~~~~~~~~~~
Sprint= ~~~~~~~~~~~~
Alltel= ~~~~~~~~~~~~
T-Mobile=~~~~~~~~~
Other=~~~~~~~~~~~


I want you guys to respond in that format.

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This is in response to the fewest dropped calls thread. a response to darkjedi gave me the idea. This may be a little bit biased towards tmobile but still interesting.
The thing is I know the tech and he knew my problems. He used to come into my store (old store :confused:) and ask what kind of problems I was having. Its frustrating not being able to use my phone inside in certain places. It was random and definitely not something that caused me to leave or scares me to come back. There were just a few too many times when others would have service say in bars downtown and I wouldn't. Those are the times I care about calls, when I am trying to meet someone and can't find them.

T-mobile a wonderful future without question, I just hope that all carriers focus on a Europe like cell system where signal strength is THE main focus.

Well Maybe I will break it down a little. Care to agree or disagree.


Cell phone company focus

Verizon= Coverage
Cingular=More Subscribers
Sprint= Data users
Alltel= Rural coverage, crazy dorky ads? and my circle
T-mobile=Customer Service, more minutes
Other= Revol (old regional northcoast PCS) = unlimited minutes to people who are too young or can't get credit

[Railroader]

I'll add two to that-

US Cellular-
Edge Wireless (AT&T Affiliate)

In my area, we have three carriers, US Cellular, Edge Wireless and Verizon Wireless.

[semaj]

I focused on the large national ones with other for all the others. Guess i am lucky i have all of those i listed in my area.

[Railroader]

For our area-

US Cellular-Rural coverage,personal customer service
Edge Wireless (AT&T Affiliate)-Rural coverage,personal customer service, data, big city technology and coverage to rural areas.
Verizon-More customers, Definitely not rural coverage (Verizon is the worst here for native coverage, and relies a lot on in-market roaming onto USCC Extended Network).

[Railroader]

I focused on the large national ones with other for all the others. Guess i am lucky i have all of those i listed in my area.

Well, US Cellular, Edge Wireless (AT&T Affiliate) and Verizon are the only ones with actual coverage here, but T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint, Nextel and Metro PCS are licensed to operate here too, but have never built out their network. Since there is no Nextel here, Nextel phones are a paperweight, but those others roam on one or both of Edge, USCC or Verizon.

[darkjedi]

Cingular~~~~~Rollover, quickest to launch new handsets (boy genius agrees), unity plans with their WIDE area of landline service
Verizon~~~~~You guys hit the head with coverage, its their motto, their gumption and their focus
T-mobile~~~~~customer service bar none (really sometimes they are too nice, its almost fake!) focus on price over size
Sprint~~~~~data, being the cdma leader in data services, quick to introduce new technology as well
USCC~~~~strength in call me minutes, they don't want to be a large carrier, only the best regional carrier, customer service
Alltel~~~~I don't know but can they please stop advertising in areas people can't get their service!!!!!!!!!!!!

While I'd like to thank Semaj for being the focus of this thread (i'd like to thank the academy and all who voted for me....) Those who work (ed) for them know that this is one of their 5 main focuses this year is in building coverage. However, with Sprint releasing Airwave which is a direct competitor to h@h T-mobile has lost that as a claim to fame. I'm hoping that their 3g services will serve better for in-building coverage. I want T-mobile to succeed, there is no question they have better voice quality than Att, but for what its worth, I just trust att more for in building coverage. Then again, I trust T-mobile more for connecting my calls more often than att so its a real round robin and those of us on this board who continue to have two carriers will enjoy what is hopefully the utmost coverage one can achieve!

[christyxcore]

Verizon-coverage,
Cingular-Rollover, new handsets, convenience with their home services
T-Mobile: cheaper rate plans, more for your money, customer service
Sprint: data..

those are the only ones in my area as far as i know

[semaj]

very nice, keep it up guys.

[L7jr]

Verizon: Consistent coverage for most of the country

Cingular: Roll Over Minutes & most subscribers w/o an emphasis on call quality & dropped calls unfortunately

Sprint: Cheap data and free roaming on Verizon

Alltel: Smaller carrier, tries to compete with big boys by offering similar features

T-mobile: Customer Service, most for your money, service where you need it in metro areas

Other (Nextel): Used to be instant DC across the country and rugged phones, since Sprint bought them, have gone down the tubes unfortunately