If you are looking at service from AT&T and travel or live west of Fond Du Lac and Oshkosh in places such as Ripon, Green Lake, and Berlin be aware. Once you get a few miles out of Fond Du Lac or Oshkosh AT&T looses signal and even though your phone continues to display AT&T you are actually roaming either on Einstein PCS, or IWireless depending on the area traveled. If you live or spend considerable amounts of time in these areas and are looking for a wireless provider I would look elsewhere.
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Its hard to rate Cingular in Ripon, since they have no native service and instead roam on Einstein PCS. The call quality is great, but Einstein offers no internet features whatsoever, so you can forget GPRS here. Anywhere in town outside you will easily get a maximum signal, but as soon as you step inside, it either greatly decreases or dies completely. In the college dorms, certain sides of the buildings get a fine signal while the other is a complete GSM dead zone. In non-cinderblock buildings you will have a better time, but still don't expect much. I can also comment on other providers here. T-Mobile is in the same boat as Cingular, so my comments apply to them too. Verizon roams onto US Cellular, which works well everywhere, but offers no internet service and sometimes calls will go straight to voicemail without ringing (my friend with Verizon has this happen pretty often). The other services I can't really comment too much on, but I believe Sprint put up a tower here in the last year or so. Cingular's coverage map shows that they are expanding in this area of Fond Du Lac county, but with no time on when that will happen. I am still optimistic, as I think that would help with the building penetration problems.
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