is verizon good?

Never have had a complaint with Verizon. My family's had them since the cellular one days, never once thought of changing.
 
88ls1blazer said:
IIRC verizon and cingular use similar technology, meaning they share towers, so service should be theoretically the same, HOWEVER, the phone you have could make all the difference.
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WHAT!?
 
Crazzy_Al said:
Can you hear me now?
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88LS1Blazer's statement couldn't be further from acurate! Yes, they do share some towers, but the technology each uses is completely different. And yes... i can hear you now.:Yawn:
 
Verizon is a different system than Cingular.

Cingular and T-Mobile are GSM phones (uses sim cards). They share towers.

Verizon and Sprint is a CDMA system.
 
FUCK NEXTEL!!!! I switched to verizon about a month and a half ago, and haven't looked back. I have dropped 0 calls, and I have to agree, the newest Razr KICKS ASS!!!!!

TSHAFT
 
loosenut said:
Verizon is a different system than Cingular.

Cingular and T-Mobile are GSM phones (uses sim cards). They share towers.

Verizon and Sprint is a CDMA system.
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Actually, I think Sprint is slowly switching to GSM (sim cards) too. Atleast the Nextel portion of them is GSM. I dropped calls non stop with Sprint/Nextel, called customer support, and they always told me "be patient, we're putting up more towers". :bs:

TSHAFT
 
You can have up to 3 or 4 providers on one tower, possibly more depending on the size of the tower. Basically, someone owns a tower, and the companies pay them for space on it. They're placed at different heights on the tower so they can have more than one. My dad has a tower on his business' property. A company pays him a lease on the land, they built the building and tower, and the cell companies pay them to put their equipment on it if they like the location.
 
TSHAFTISA5-OH said:
I dropped calls non stop with Sprint/Nextel, called customer support, and they always told me "be patient, we're putting up more towers". :bs:

TSHAFT
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Thats the same thing Cingular told me. I made 15 complaint calls in 3 months about dropped calls. 4 phones, 3 sim cards later they finally let me cancel my contract with no fee because they could not provide reliable service in my area.

I switched to Verizon, not one complaint since.
 
Verizon is the SHIT!

I've had nextel, and sprint back before sprint was nextel and what not..


Non-compair to the sevice you get from verizon.. Plus verizons finally getting some good phones and are supposed to be doing direct conect with there phones now..
 
2k3sgm said:
88LS1Blazer's statement couldn't be further from acurate! Yes, they do share some towers, but the technology each uses is completely different. And yes... i can hear you now.:Yawn:
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geeze man, sorry, im a car guy, not a cell phone guy, i said IIRC, my wife used to work @ radio shack YEARS ago, and back when it was airtouch and ameritech i thought she had said that it was similar, sorry
 
88ls1blazer said:
geeze man, sorry, im a car guy, not a cell phone guy, i said IIRC, my wife used to work @ radio shack YEARS ago, and back when it was airtouch and ameritech i thought she had said that it was similar, sorry
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Cingulars old system is similar to verizon, Cingular was TDMA, and Verizon was CDMA, now cingular and Verizon are very different since Cingular switched everything to GSM. they may share the same "tower" but they don't share any componants on the tower. Nextel uses sim cards but it is not GSM, it is called Iden, they dont use the sim card the same way that gsm uses them.
 
mymizzery said:
Cingulars old system is similar to verizon, Cingular was TDMA, and Verizon was CDMA, now cingular and Verizon are very different since Cingular switched everything to GSM. they may share the same "tower" but they don't share any componants on the tower. Nextel uses sim cards but it is not GSM, it is called Iden, they dont use the sim card the same way that gsm uses them.
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Way back when... in 1984 Cingular (Ameritech) and Verizon (AirTouch, Cellular One, Detroit Cellular) were the same tech (analog) and actually used the same network until Detroit Cellular got it's own up and running.

Both went to CDMA until SBC bought Ameritech and converted them to TDMA, Airtouch remained analog/CDMA. Then SBC and Bell South merged cell cos. to form Cingular and rolled out GSM, with TDMA and analog still up. Verizon remained CDMA and started rolling out EVDO, high speed data over CDMA. Now, in Detroit Verizon is still analog/CDMA with EVDO and EVDO Rev. A (Higher speed data). Cingular is analog/TDMA & GSM and getting ready to roll out UMTS/HSDPA (high speed data and voice), which funny enough is a version of CDMA! Hope this clears things up. :icon_mrgr
 
2k3sgm said:
Way back when... in 1984 Cingular (Ameritech) and Verizon (AirTouch, Cellular One, Detroit Cellular) were the same tech (analog) and actually used the same network until Detroit Cellular got it's own up and running.

Both went to CDMA until SBC bought Ameritech and converted them to TDMA, Airtouch remained analog/CDMA. Then SBC and Bell South merged cell cos. to form Cingular and rolled out GSM, with TDMA and analog still up. Verizon remained CDMA and started rolling out EVDO, high speed data over CDMA. Now, in Detroit Verizon is still analog/CDMA with EVDO and EVDO Rev. A (Higher speed data). Cingular is analog/TDMA & GSM and getting ready to roll out UMTS/HSDPA (high speed data and voice), which funny enough is a version of CDMA! Hope this clears things up. :icon_mrgr
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Talk about alphabet soup..........can we have some crackers too. :)

We have been on Verizon since 1999 and have few complaints on service and none with their billing/admin. And the LG phones are tough as nails.
 
I love my verizon, I still have my nextel along with it and nextel sux for phone service. I use my verizon thro Canada and haven't droped a call yet.
 
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