Cingular - Least Dropped Calls
Cingular has had some interesting advertising campaigns over the last few years. I have kind of enjoyed the unique ways they have come up with to picture the cell phone signal in the “Raising the Bar” commercials. But now, this latest “Least dropped calls of any network, and Cingular isn’t just saying the leading research company proved it.” As soon as I hear that I thought it was Consumer Reports, because I know from experience that you aren’t allowed to use the Consumer Reports name in advertising. But it wasn’t them, it was some obscure company I had never heard of called telephia.
Now I’m sure Telephia is great at what they do, but I have had friends with Cingular…most of which have switch to Verizon. Most of the talk about the poor coverage on Cingular. I guess when you have to stand under the tower to get good reception you tend not to drop calls.
I use Verizon. I have very few dropped calls. I have had some phone problems, which I tend to blame on Microsoft and Samsung more than Verizon, and my replacement XV6700 has been pretty good. There are four places however where I am guarenteed my call will drop.
1. On “Old Alabama Road” at the first stop sign in Emerson Georgia.
2. Again on “Old Alabama Road” when I go past a mountain.
3. On Highway 61, south of the Carterville Regional Airport, again going through a pretty good valley.
4. On Dabbs Bridge Road, right after I drive over the bridge and round the corner and go behind a rather large hill/mountain again.
The last one I am experimenting with speed. I hoping that if I drive fast enough, I might loose audio for a few seconds but still keep the call up. So far no luck though.
With Verizon I have litterally made calls with clear quality when my phone show no signal bars. While I have been writing this I have been trying to remember the last time I was somewhere where I didn’t have a signal. I really am having a hard time with that. I think it might have been when I took Hurricane relief supplies down to my parents in Pensacola after Ivan. Since the trees weren’t standing, and there was no power I really couldn’t fault the network. BTW…how did I find my parents after the hurricane….they got through on a VERIZON cell phone.
I really went on quite the rant about this one. What cell phone company do you use? If it is Sprint you can now switch carriers and keep your number….even Cingular would be better.
July 25th, 2006 at 10:54 pm
I was talking to somone the other day on my cell phone when his cell phone dropped the call. When we reconnected I asked who he had service through. You probably guessed it…Cingular! He even made a sarcastic comment about having the fewest dropped calls. Even their longtime customers think their advertising campaign is funny.