# Sprint/Nextel to merge
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sprint-nextel-to-merge/171020
**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [December 11, 2004, 11:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sprint-nextel-to-merge/171020 "2004-12-11T23:34:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Gray05](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gray05)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2004, 9:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sprint-nextel-to-merge/171020/21 "2004-12-15T09:52:44Z")
> [@ShalerPunk](#):
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> take a sprint phone, a verizon phone, a cingular phone, a nextel phone, and a cricket phone to the intersection of Brandt School and Pine Creek Roads in Franklin Park and tell me which phone works.
>
> I’m the only person I know who doesn’t drop calls there.
so you know people who have cingular phones already? since theyve only been around since nov 15 in the pittsburgh market
please… cellular is my occupation, this is one thing I know a lot more than you do about.
Cricket is utter garbage
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### Author:  [@Sight\_N\_Sound](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sight_N_Sound)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2004, 9:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sprint-nextel-to-merge/171020/22 "2004-12-15T09:59:31Z")
> [@ShalerPunk](#):
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> take a sprint phone, a verizon phone, a cingular phone, a nextel phone, and a cricket phone to the intersection of Brandt School and Pine Creek Roads in Franklin Park and tell me which phone works.
>
> I’m the only person I know who doesn’t drop calls there.
take the cellular challenge… 🤣
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### Author:  [@ShalerPunk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ShalerPunk)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2004, 10:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sprint-nextel-to-merge/171020/23 "2004-12-15T10:05:56Z")
> [@Blue4](#):
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> so you know people who have cingular phones already? since theyve only been around since nov 15 in the pittsburgh market
i don’t know.
my friend joe, who has/had AT&T, got a new phone.
would that be cingular?
i’m just using firsthand experience. for the north hills area, my cricket phone is better than my Sprint or AT&T phones were. I seem to drop calls less than Joe’s AT&T/Cingular(?) phone, and I’m paying half of what I was paying with Sprint ($124.99 a month when I had Sprint)
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### Author:  [@peterock17](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/peterock17)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2004, 10:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sprint-nextel-to-merge/171020/24 "2004-12-15T10:14:01Z")
I know cricket is the only service that works well in the Northside/Perryhilltop/Spring Garden area.
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### Author:  [@silvrhand](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/silvrhand)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2004, 10:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sprint-nextel-to-merge/171020/25 "2004-12-15T10:31:35Z")
It’s too many variables to really get a understanding of who’s service sucks or if you have a shitty phone, or someone is using a shitty technology.
[How Cell Phones Work | HowStuffWorks](http://www.howstuffworks.com/cell-phone.htm) \<— really good site that most people should read to get a better understanding of cell phone technology and how you can make a better decision on your cell phone company.
> [@ShalerPunk](#):
>
> take a sprint phone, a verizon phone, a cingular phone, a nextel phone, and a cricket phone to the intersection of Brandt School and Pine Creek Roads in Franklin Park and tell me which phone works.
>
> I’m the only person I know who doesn’t drop calls there.
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### Author:  [@ShalerPunk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ShalerPunk)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2004, 10:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sprint-nextel-to-merge/171020/26 "2004-12-15T10:36:37Z")
yeah…I’ve never compared apples to apples… like a Nokia 3570 from Cricket and a Nokia 3585 from Sprint…
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### Author:  [@Gray05](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gray05)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2004, 10:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sprint-nextel-to-merge/171020/27 "2004-12-15T10:47:43Z")
> [@ShalerPunk](#):
>
> yeah…I’ve never compared apples to apples… like a Nokia 3570 from Cricket and a Nokia 3585 from Sprint…
phone means nothing
technology network means everything
J.D. Powers Network National Ratings.
\*-A side carrier
\*\*-B side carrier
1.) Cingular/AT&T GSM\*
2.) Verizon Wireless CDMA\* (Vodafone PLC) (non-roaming enhanced)
3.) Nextel Communications iDEN\*
4.) T-Mobile (Deutche Telekom)\* GSM (proper, non roaming)
5.) Sprint PCS (CDMA enhanced)\*
6.) Cingular/AT&T TDMA\*
7.) U.S. Cellular CDMA\*\*
8.) Southern Linc iDEN\*\*
9.) CellONE TDMA\*\*
10.) AllTEL CDMA\*\*
11.) Leap (Cricket, select markets) CDMA\*\*
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### Author:  [@ShalerPunk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ShalerPunk)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2004, 10:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sprint-nextel-to-merge/171020/28 "2004-12-15T10:50:51Z")
> [@Blue4](#):
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> phone means nothing
>
> technology network means everything
is that why my beat old Nokia gets much better reception than amanda’s brand new Kyocera on the same network?
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### Author:  [@Gray05](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gray05)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2004, 10:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sprint-nextel-to-merge/171020/29 "2004-12-15T10:54:43Z")
> [@ShalerPunk](#):
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> is that why my beat old Nokia gets much better reception than amanda’s brand new Kyocera on the same network?
same network is a diff thing
but comparing a nokia on cricket, to a nokia on sprint is apples to oranges
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### Author:  [@77rednecktruck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/77rednecktruck)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2004, 11:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sprint-nextel-to-merge/171020/30 "2004-12-15T11:28:02Z")
> [@ShalerPunk](#):
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> is that why my beat old Nokia gets much better reception than amanda’s brand new Kyocera on the same network?
my old nokia on AT&T was 10x better than my new kyocera on Verizon.
AT&T \>\* in my opinion
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### Author:  [@fshowcars](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fshowcars)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2004, 11:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sprint-nextel-to-merge/171020/31 "2004-12-15T11:40:49Z")
> [@Blue4](#):
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> so you know people who have cingular phones already? since theyve only been around since nov 15 in the pittsburgh market
>
> please… cellular is my occupation, this is one thing I know a lot more than you do about.
>
> Cricket is utter garbage
i’ve had a cingular blackberry for over a year with a philly number… works great in pittsburgh
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### Author:  [@fshowcars](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fshowcars)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2004, 11:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sprint-nextel-to-merge/171020/32 "2004-12-15T11:42:00Z")
> [@ECOvenom](#):
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> I have Verizon… 39.99 a month… and can get service all through PA, Delaware and went i went to Florida didn’t roam…
>
> VERIZON\> Any other company
i’ve never roamed unless i was driving through somewhere… if i needed to make a call i just stop and after 30 seconds it would pick up the network
i’ve been from new orleans to canada to jersey to vegas… sprint has no issues.
plus they were the first all digital… i’ve been with sprint for 9 years now.
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### Author:  [@Gray05](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gray05)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2004, 11:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sprint-nextel-to-merge/171020/33 "2004-12-15T11:43:12Z")
> [@fshowcars](#):
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> i’ve had a cingular blackberry for over a year with a philly number… works great in pittsburgh
wasnt the point i was trying to make against Blayner
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### Author:  [@fshowcars](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fshowcars)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2004, 11:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sprint-nextel-to-merge/171020/34 "2004-12-15T11:53:51Z")
just saying cingular was better than AT&T in pittsburgh before they even offered it!
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### Author:  [@ShalerPunk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ShalerPunk)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2004, 11:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sprint-nextel-to-merge/171020/35 "2004-12-15T11:55:03Z")
> [@Blue4](#):
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> wasnt the point i was trying to make against Blayner
“Blanyer”.
thanks.
:finger:
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### Author:  [@Gray05](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gray05)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2004, 11:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sprint-nextel-to-merge/171020/36 "2004-12-15T11:58:16Z")
> [@fshowcars](#):
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> just saying cingular was better than AT&T in pittsburgh before they even offered it!
well now theyre the same thing, so no diff heh
and Blanyer, sorry… but since I misspelled yor name, you will forever be known as Blayner
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### Author:  [@T70\_Tsi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/T70_Tsi)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2004, 2:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sprint-nextel-to-merge/171020/37 "2004-12-15T14:13:58Z")
my buddy has had cingular up here for 3 years…course it’s not the “pitts” market they’ve sold it at walmart up this way since i can remember…that and cell one
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### Author:  [@ShalerPunk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ShalerPunk)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2004, 5:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sprint-nextel-to-merge/171020/38 "2004-12-15T17:00:19Z")
> [@BlueMeanieTSi](#):
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> my buddy has had cingular up here for 3 years…course it’s not the “pitts” market they’ve sold it at walmart up this way since i can remember…that and cell one
that’s because you’re practically next to the canadian border up there…
what do you consider yourselves up there? suburban buffalo?
🤣
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### Author:  [@silvrhand](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/silvrhand)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sprint-nextel-to-merge/171020/39 "2004-12-15T20:49:17Z")
GSM is spottier than Shaler’s stained panties…
> [@Blue4](#):
>
> phone means nothing
>
> technology network means everything
>
> J.D. Powers Network National Ratings.
> \*-A side carrier
> \*\*-B side carrier
>
> 1.) Cingular/AT&T GSM\*
> 2.) Verizon Wireless CDMA\* (Vodafone PLC) (non-roaming enhanced)
> 3.) Nextel Communications iDEN\*
> 4.) T-Mobile (Deutche Telekom)\* GSM (proper, non roaming)
> 5.) Sprint PCS (CDMA enhanced)\*
> 6.) Cingular/AT&T TDMA\*
> 7.) U.S. Cellular CDMA\*\*
> 8.) Southern Linc iDEN\*\*
> 9.) CellONE TDMA\*\*
> 10.) AllTEL CDMA\*\*
> 11.) Leap (Cricket, select markets) CDMA\*\*
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### Author:  [@Gray05](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gray05)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2004, 8:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sprint-nextel-to-merge/171020/40 "2004-12-15T20:50:43Z")
> [@silvrhand](#):
>
> GSM is spottier than Shaler’s stained panties…
the older AT&T GSM was… not after the merger
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