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11-09-2006, 03:38 PM
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Ask Icepick about cell phones
Background:
I'm a senior engineer with a major US cell phone carrier. My company name begins with a big pink T. I've worked in wireless for almost 10 years now. I've been doing system design for 4 of those years. Don't ask about the sales end of the business, I don't know jack. Ask me about development, zoning, construction, technology, performance, the future, the past, the present, whatever. I'll give it a shot. 
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11-09-2006, 03:41 PM
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Re: Ask Icepick about cell phones
Can you get me out of my contract with your company? The service sucks I never have coverage enough to actually make a call within a 10 mile radius of where I live, regardless of what you're damn coverage maps say.
I'm willing to bribe.
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11-09-2006, 03:43 PM
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Re: Ask Icepick about cell phones
How hot is the new Cingular 8525 (aka HTC TyTN)?
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11-09-2006, 03:47 PM
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Re: Ask Icepick about cell phones
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Can you get me out of my contract with your company? The service sucks I never have coverage enough to actually make a call within a 10 mile radius of where I live, regardless of what you're damn coverage maps say. I'm willing to bribe. [/ QUOTE ] Sales question, but I'll answer it. No, I cant. You signed a contract. You had (atleast) 14 days trial period to try it out. You're screwed. I recall reading about a website where unhappy people such as yourself could sell their phone and remainder of their contract to another person, but I can't recall it off the top of my head.
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#5
11-09-2006, 03:52 PM
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Re: Ask Icepick about cell phones
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How hot is the new Cingular 8525 (aka HTC TyTN)? [/ QUOTE ] Never used it. Since that's with the company with the big orange X. Should work with other GSM networks however. Personally, I use a Nokia 6630, it's a Euro phone that (to my knowledge) has never been sold in the US. I use it because it's been loaded up with network diagnostic software.
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11-09-2006, 03:55 PM
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Re: Ask Icepick about cell phones
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[ QUOTE ] How hot is the new Cingular 8525 (aka HTC TyTN)? [/ QUOTE ] Never used it. Since that's with the company with the big orange X. Should work with other GSM networks however. Personally, I use a Nokia 6630, it's a Euro phone that (to my knowledge) has never been sold in the US. I use it because it's been loaded up with network diagnostic software. [/ QUOTE ] T.M.'s version of the TyTN is the MDA Vario II .
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#9
11-09-2006, 03:58 PM
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Re: Ask Icepick about cell phones
When will I do triple play via cell?
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#10
11-09-2006, 03:59 PM
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Re: Ask Icepick about cell phones
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what kind of new phones you got in development? [/ QUOTE ] We don't design or make phones. Ask someone else that works for Nokia, Motorolla, Samsung or LG. That being said, UMA is in testing. Basically, a phone with it will "roam" onto a WIFI signal, and use the internet connection to get where it needs to go. Early word is mixed. I have one on my desk, but haven't played with it yet.
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