Cell phones
Sep. 26th, 2005 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
What do people know about cell phones?
Mark lost the second cell phone on our t-mobile plan yesterday. He doesn't use it that much, so he thinks it might be easier for me to keep my unlimited phone with t-mobile, and have him go to a pre-paid phone for emergencies. (His plan ends in November). My MIL has Trackphone and likes it. I've got no clue which pay as you is best - I'd just prefer if Mark had a Nokia phone since all Nokia phones have the same chargers.
My phone is a Nokia. I'm thinking of upgrading on eBay as it's old and doesn't charge well. Any recommendations for that. (Mine is the 3390, Mark had a 6something with a color screen and a zillion functions).
Mark lost the second cell phone on our t-mobile plan yesterday. He doesn't use it that much, so he thinks it might be easier for me to keep my unlimited phone with t-mobile, and have him go to a pre-paid phone for emergencies. (His plan ends in November). My MIL has Trackphone and likes it. I've got no clue which pay as you is best - I'd just prefer if Mark had a Nokia phone since all Nokia phones have the same chargers.
My phone is a Nokia. I'm thinking of upgrading on eBay as it's old and doesn't charge well. Any recommendations for that. (Mine is the 3390, Mark had a 6something with a color screen and a zillion functions).
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Date: 2005-09-27 03:30 pm (UTC)Has nothing to do with only pre-paid. I meant it as companies that only offer pre-paid have less coverage so you need to take that in to account before subscribing to them and thinking you will make out by paying less. The coverage area has to do with the company and how many cell phone towers they have access to across the area.
Bigger companies like cingular, t-mobile, sprint etc have more coverage.
Each plan Does use it's own towers, otherwise all companies would offer you the same coverage and there would be no difference signal wise. So yes they do search for the signals from their own towers.
Where I live cingular has poor coverage and has tons of black out areas. However verizon and t-mobile work fine.
If you go with a bigger company's pre-paid plan like verizon you would have the same coverage as the month to month user.
BUT not all of them are the same which was why I gave the warning.
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Date: 2005-09-27 03:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-28 12:26 am (UTC)