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I see many people complaining about signial or lack of with all companys on this board. I guess what they say is true that bad news travels faster then good. I am with Cingular and before that AT&T there are many reasone for poor signial and part of the problem is some phone users do not know how to use a cell phone. I have had 12 or more phones in the past 15 years and I always have a strong signial. I travel all over the USA and can use my phone where ever I go with no problems at all. The one thing I learned a few years ago was to turn the phone off once a day, if you leave your phone on and never shut it off it will never relocate to a stronger tower. the first thing the phone does when powered up is to lock on to the cell tower and that is important each tower has an ID if you travel even in your own area say go up to flint from detroit well your locked on to a tower in detroit and when you get to Flint your phone will be hopping from tower to tower but still has the detroit tower locked in. so power off your phone and then power on and your phone will search out the strongest tower and re-id when you get back home repete that and you'll be fine. Every day power off and on your phone every morning and you will never have a signial problem. Life hasn't always been great with the cell company I am with now, 15 years ago analog CDMA was great then they went digital and everything was still great even better then they went TDMA and service went south and for about 2 years I was like most people on this board. But since then all the new forms of technoligy have just gotten better

When I first got the GSM phone from Cingular it sounded great, like I was on a house phone. But that was short lived. Now I drop calls all the time and if I am connected I usually can't understand the other person and most are on a office or house phone. I get different stories rfrom different representatives from Cingular and they contradict each other. I am looking for a new provider!