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Oklahoma City, OK | Great That is simply wonderful, free access to the GSM network without a SIM? | |
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| |  algPassionately apatheticPremium
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kudos:3 | Re: Great said by Nagrom Nniuq:Well not free but at least people with non-T-Mobile phones can use their cell phones. It will probably be free. I can almost guaranteed that down the road they will either issue refunds, credit, or not charge at all for these couple of days.
At least they had the decency to do that when Houston got flooded out, and that was pretty minor compared to this. | |
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kudos:1 | Basicly any GSM phone can now use Tmobile in this area, usually under normal circumstances this isnt allowed. I think you need a valid sim.
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| | Nice Hopefully this will help some people contact their loved ones. But I wonder how many people have functional cellphones? | |
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| | | Re: Nice Doesn't the national gov't use Verizon Wireless with CDMA though?  Not sure what the local and state use, but any cell service is better than nothing at all. Kudos to T-mobile for its efforts. | |
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| | | | | | Re: Nice said by FTCXtreme:LMAO Nextel. Our Governemnt is really smart. No reception almost everywhere except the city, thats Nextels stance. What are you talking about? Nextel gets way better reception than most other cell phone compaines. I have verizon and can not get signal in some rural areas in the state (cant even get it at my house really) while nextel seems to work everywhere. | |
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North Salem, NY | Re: Nice I don't think you can generalize a company's phone service that easily. Where I live Verizon's reception is way better than Nextel's. Wherever you go the reception changes. | |
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Redwood Valley, CA
kudos:1 | Not up here they don't, there is no Nextel service anywhere in Mendocino (my home county), Lake, Humboldt, Trinity, Modoc, Lassen and Plumas Counties in Northern California. They are just paperweights up here.
That's good T-Mobile is doing this. | |
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|  Subaru1-3-2-4Premium
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Greenwich, CT | iDEN a.k.a NExtel runs at 800Mhz and higher does not alwaays mean better, Nextel works better indoors. | |
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| fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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kudos:3 | said by Anonymous:Hopefully this will help some people contact their loved ones. But I wonder how many people have functional cellphones? Sure they do, but what about the recharge? I wonder if there are places that are working to allow people to recharge where available..
I know this is a little off topic here, but I think SBC deserves a hands up too! They are prepared to donate services up to 4 million a month until this crisis is over. They are installing thousands of lines and allowing long distance services at no charge at the relief shelters in their service areas. MUCH better than what Comcrap is doing. That's right! I said it too! (I am very critical of them right now over thier efforts) | |
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Subaru1-3-2-4Premium
join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT | ha sucks for Sprint and Cinguar
btw I posted a story like this not too long ago.
old news. | |
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kudos:1 | Re: ha Doesn't suck for Cingular customers, since T-mobile is allowing roaming.
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| Subaru1-3-2-4Premium
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Greenwich, CT | Yeah but who is providing the service?
it's not Cingular thats for sure. | |
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| | | | Re: ha said by Subaru:Yeah but who is providing the service? it's not Cingular thats for sure. What? T-mobile is providing the service.
If you have a GSM phone (Cingular, At&t, Unicel, Suncom and basically every foreign cell phone carrier) You can connect to T-mobiles network and call people. | |
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1 edit | Re: ha said by ss4vegito7:said by Subaru:Yeah but who is providing the service? it's not Cingular thats for sure. What? T-mobile is providing the service. If you have a GSM phone (Cingular, At&t, Unicel, Suncom and basically every foreign cell phone carrier) You can connect to T-mobiles network and call people. LOL you did not get the point..
I'm Saying his little Cingular phone is not making the call on a CINGULAR Tower but a T-mobile one. 
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|  tc1uscg
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Saint Clair Shores, MI | Funny, Sprint dropped 3000 phones to emergency workers and they seem to be doing just fine. As far as T-Mobile goes, yep, they are up. The whole 1 cell tower.  Oh, by the way, Sprint, and others ROAM off the majority of big players. Both analog and digital. So, HA. | |
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| Re: ha said by tc1uscg:As far as T-Mobile goes, yep, they are up. The whole 1 cell tower. Many of their towers are up and running. They are even letting the big carriers roam on them.....
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Louisiana | Been working like this for several days You'll find a lot of this area is Cingular customers so this is good news. I have noticed on my Cingular cell phone that when I can't call out which is about 80% of the time in Baton Rouge, I can switch over to TMobile. Usually I can't use voice or data on TMobile, but even all my emails come down on TMobile! The only bad thing is TMobile's coverage is very spotty in this area.
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join:2005-02-22
Exton, PA | tmobile Finally a cell phone company that gives a shit, too bad their service is horrible in about 75% of the places I go around here. It's nice in the city? :-P Oh well, all cell phone companies are horrible right now. | |
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| | | Re: tmobile Service might be up barely but how do you charge a phone with no main power? | |
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| | | | Re: tmobile Car charger,Power inverter,generator,even one of the little emergency battery packs from a convenience store. I got pretty creative last summer by the time the third hurricane hit us in central FL. | |
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| roaming who cares about how good the service is with TMobile. fact of the matter is that finally some good is starting to happen, and TMobile has taken the first step in allowing anyone with a cellphone that will roam acecss to a network so they can use a phone. maybe this will stick a boot in the ass of the other big companies to do the same. what they need to do is remove all roaming fees too. before this news came about,the only communication down in that part of the country was ham radio from what i understand. this is a good step forward and it should not be debated about in a negative manner. | |
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| | And while we worry about cell phones.. The National Guard denied Wal-Mart trucks full of water and Red Cross trucks full of food and medical help from entering NOLA.
And we're worried about cell phones. | |
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|  Greg_ZPremium
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Springfield, IL | Re: And while we worry about cell phones.. said by Enraged Anonymous Us :
The National Guard denied Wal-Mart trucks full of water and Red Cross trucks full of food and medical help from entering NOLA.
And we're worried about cell phones.
Yeah, where did you get your info from (Idiot's are us???) As for Cellular Service, T-Mobile is not the only one, Cingular, Verizon, Sprint have all brought C.O.W.S. into the area to get communications set up for the Relief efforts, along with those areas that are seeing an influx of Refugees being brought into them.
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»cingular.mediaroom.com/index.php···LE=pageC
The media has done a good enough job of showing the down side of the recovery efforts out there. Perhaps we should say "Kudos" to TMobile for their efforts and let that be it. | |
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|  CopPremium
join:2001-09-05
Auburn, AL | said by Enraged Anonymous Us :
The National Guard denied Wal-Mart trucks full of water and Red Cross trucks full of food and medical help from entering NOLA.
And we're worried about cell phones.
I could make up news like that and try to piss people off but Im not. What is your problem?
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|  ragez
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Philadelphia, PA | said by Enraged Anonymous Us :
The National Guard denied Wal-Mart trucks full of water and Red Cross trucks full of food and medical help from entering NOLA.
And we're worried about cell phones.
it was on "meet the press today" by some guy...i dont know, but i'm not surprised since they have a bunch of idiots who dont know what they're doing down there. | |
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| | | | Re: And while we worry about cell phones.. If I was trapped in my attic and was trying to call for help, this would be important news for me. People have probably been turning their mobiles on for and off rationing their charge. It wil save some lives and it will let people know that their loved ones are alive.
I recognize 911 calls have to be connected (regardless of the SIM's status), but calling your family members and letting them know you are alive is important. | |
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|  2kmaroThinkPremium,ExMod 1 BC
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ColossalCave | said by Enraged Anonymous Us :
The National Guard denied Wal-Mart trucks full of water and Red Cross trucks full of food and medical help from entering NOLA.
And we're worried about cell phones.
I can confirm that FEMA has botched some such efforts, and looks like they will continue to do so.
The Wal-Mart trucks turnback was just one instance. FEMA can't even offer assistance to anything but not-for-profit hospitals, meaning that right now all of the hospitals that could be helping can't because of no supplies, support from FEMA.
The relief effort has already moved from the confused state on into a serious CusterFluck state, we can only hope it gets lots better very fast. It was obvious to me that Pres Bush isn't really happy with the whole situation either. He just about laid it out plain and simple in a statement while he was visiting down there. Then, from what I gathered from a Meet The Press program today, his advisors told him that right now was not the time to be doing anything but giving encouragement instead of chopping heads of that might still be able to turn things around. Time for finger pointing will come, no doubt.
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| | | | Re: Cingular Customers Won't Know...... Yes, actually most customers. Unless u have a Hacked Motorola or a Symbian phone (like me) | |
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|  EvelKubKitty is crazyPremium
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Phoenix, AZ | That sux... You should let T-Mobile know of your findings. This can't be something allowed with their roaming contracts. | |
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NYC Metro | Who GIVES a shit! Considering that there is hardly ANY "refugees" left, I don't see how this will really help. Maybe it can help the troops on the ground, but besides that.... They are just looking for publicity.
Cell phones are for teeny boppers. Real communication is done via radio during disasters.
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| | water and electronics Needless to say water and electronics usually don't mix well... they need to get the flooding under control first before limited power lines can be activated, and the pathways have to be clear.. you have to make sure you don't kill anyone with electricity by hooking up power too soon.
There should be service on the fringes of the city.. coverage zones are usually 2-5 miles of the towers.
There are GSM, family radio band walkie-talkies that can go as far as 10 miles without repeaters, cb and ham go further depending on power levels.
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| | yep it will be free.. i doubt the people there will pay their bill because they do not have a mail box. | |
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Tmobile, for the horrendus level of coverage they provide, really does have it up there with decent customer service, good plan prices, and reasonable contracts (no 2 year nonsense with them. Its good to know, that even if its a PR effort, that people down there can still make the calls they need to. | |
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|  JoeOnSunsetDoublethink Is Doubleplus Ungood.Premium
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Ormond Beach, FL | Re: Cingular vs TMO That's interesting. I didn't know that... I'm a blue-side customer (hanging on). But naming all the networks "Cingular" would make sense for the people who have nationwide roaming-included plans... reduces the "will I get charged roaming even if my phone says T-Mobile?" calls. BUT, if they do this for people who have on-network only plans, that's nuts! I mean, lots of people don't know what the roaming indicator on their phone is, and only know they're roaming when their phone says another network name. | |
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