Cingular Free Roaming

[ShotgunSteven]

A lot of business exclude Alaska and Hawaii in their "nationwide" notices, I haven't been able to find a definitive answer to the Alaska question thus far.

 

[BoomerD]

Cingular works fine for me in Hawaii, not sure about Seward's Folly...Maybe one of the "eskimos" on here can help with that...

 

[Safeway]

Call and ask.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: Safeway
Call and ask.

Well THAT has to be one of the stupidest fvcking answers I've seen on here in a while...call and ask...you know that makes WAAAAAAY too much sense for ATOT!

 

[Aikouka]

Is there an asterisk on any part of their website for the "free roaming." If they're going to restrict it, they'll say some jargon like "in the contiguous 48 states only."

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Aikouka
Is there an asterisk on any part of their website for the "free roaming." If they're going to restrict it, they'll say some jargon like "in the contiguous 48 states only."

That is what I have been looking for on their site, I keep getting routed to Internet for Igloos.

 

[thirdeye]

Yes it does. I was in Alaska last August and didn't have a problem with service or getting charged for usage.

 

[Safeway]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: Safeway
Call and ask.

Well THAT has to be one of the stupidest fvcking answers I've seen on here in a while...call and ask...you know that makes WAAAAAAY too much sense for ATOT!

Let me go drown my sorrows. :beer:

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: thirdeye
Yes it does. I was in Alaska last August and didn't have a problem with service or getting charged for usage.

Thanks. I got them on the phone, and kept getting rerouted to other departments that couldn't answer my question either, lol.

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: thirdeye
Yes it does. I was in Alaska last August and didn't have a problem with service or getting charged for usage.

How far away from the coast were you? I thought someone once told me once you get away from the coastal cities, everything is analog and newer cell phones won't work unless they also handle analog.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

While the roaming is free, the Cingular rep indicated that if too much roaming takes place the account may get cancelled. I am trying to track down any place it says that on their site, but I am not having any luck thus far.

 

[thirdeye]

Originally posted by: kranky

Originally posted by: thirdeye
Yes it does. I was in Alaska last August and didn't have a problem with service or getting charged for usage.

How far away from the coast were you? I thought someone once told me once you get away from the coastal cities, everything is analog and newer cell phones won't work unless they also handle analog.

I was in Anchorage, and the Big Lake area. Only time I noticed it dropped was on my way to Denali, but I couldn't even get a radio station out that way.

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
While the roaming is free, the Cingular rep indicated that if too much roaming takes place the account may get cancelled. I am trying to track down any place it says that on their site, but I am not having any luck thus far.

I've heard of this before. I'm pretty sure someone posted it here a while back about a way to get out of a x-year contract without a penalty.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: thirdeye

Originally posted by: kranky

Originally posted by: thirdeye
Yes it does. I was in Alaska last August and didn't have a problem with service or getting charged for usage.

How far away from the coast were you? I thought someone once told me once you get away from the coastal cities, everything is analog and newer cell phones won't work unless they also handle analog.

I was in Anchorage, and the Big Lake area. Only time I noticed it dropped was on my way to Denali, but I couldn't even get a radio station out that way.

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
While the roaming is free, the Cingular rep indicated that if too much roaming takes place the account may get cancelled. I am trying to track down any place it says that on their site, but I am not having any luck thus far.

I've heard of this before. I'm pretty sure someone posted it here a while back about a way to get out of a x-year contract without a penalty.

Hmm, I think I remember seeing a thread where the original poster was asking for someone to send them text messages from overseas or something so they could get out of their contract. Was that it?

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven

Originally posted by: thirdeye

Originally posted by: kranky

Originally posted by: thirdeye
Yes it does. I was in Alaska last August and didn't have a problem with service or getting charged for usage.

How far away from the coast were you? I thought someone once told me once you get away from the coastal cities, everything is analog and newer cell phones won't work unless they also handle analog.

I was in Anchorage, and the Big Lake area. Only time I noticed it dropped was on my way to Denali, but I couldn't even get a radio station out that way.

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
While the roaming is free, the Cingular rep indicated that if too much roaming takes place the account may get canceled. I am trying to track down any place it says that on their site, but I am not having any luck thus far.

I've heard of this before. I'm pretty sure someone posted it here a while back about a way to get out of a x-year contract without a penalty.

Hmm, I think I remember seeing a thread where the original poster was asking for someone to send them text messages from overseas or something so they could get out of their contract. Was that it?

The thread was that roaming costs your service provider money - they essentially have to pay the carrier for the time used when you are in roaming mode. to much roaming time makes your contract (if they can not recoup the costs), unprofitable and they may offer to cancel the contract.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
While the roaming is free, the Cingular rep indicated that if too much roaming takes place the account may get cancelled. I am trying to track down any place it says that on their site, but I am not having any luck thus far.

Pfft, if roaming is roaming (i.e. location isn't a factor), then they won't cancel anything. I bought my phone almost 2 years ago in Virginia while I was on an internship. After the summer ended, I moved back up to Pennsylvania and used my phone with my Virginia number since then. I have been roaming the entire time and have not been canceled or even had a notice about my roaming use sent.

Why don't I just change my number... well, I enjoy the Spanish spam calls that I get sometimes :laugh:.

EDIT: It is good to note though that there is no Cingular presence in my area of PA (only Verizon, but I still get signal and phone use), I mainly use it in NY where there is a Cingular presence.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
While the roaming is free, the Cingular rep indicated that if too much roaming takes place the account may get cancelled. I am trying to track down any place it says that on their site, but I am not having any luck thus far.

Pfft, if roaming is roaming (i.e. location isn't a factor), then they won't cancel anything. I bought my phone almost 2 years ago in Virginia while I was on an internship. After the summer ended, I moved back up to Pennsylvania and used my phone with my Virginia number since then. I have been roaming the entire time and have not been canceled or even had a notice about my roaming use sent.

Why don't I just change my number... well, I enjoy the Spanish spam calls that I get sometimes :laugh:.

EDIT: It is good to note though that there is no Cingular presence in my area of PA (only Verizon, but I still get signal and phone use), I mainly use it in NY where there is a Cingular presence.

There is no Cingular presence anywhere in Alaska that I know of.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven

Originally posted by: thirdeye

Originally posted by: kranky

Originally posted by: thirdeye
Yes it does. I was in Alaska last August and didn't have a problem with service or getting charged for usage.

How far away from the coast were you? I thought someone once told me once you get away from the coastal cities, everything is analog and newer cell phones won't work unless they also handle analog.

I was in Anchorage, and the Big Lake area. Only time I noticed it dropped was on my way to Denali, but I couldn't even get a radio station out that way.

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
While the roaming is free, the Cingular rep indicated that if too much roaming takes place the account may get canceled. I am trying to track down any place it says that on their site, but I am not having any luck thus far.

I've heard of this before. I'm pretty sure someone posted it here a while back about a way to get out of a x-year contract without a penalty.

Hmm, I think I remember seeing a thread where the original poster was asking for someone to send them text messages from overseas or something so they could get out of their contract. Was that it?

The thread was that roaming costs your service provider money - they essentially have to pay the carrier for the time used when you are in roaming mode. to much roaming time makes your contract (if they can not recoup the costs), unprofitable and they may offer to cancel the contract.

So if they cancel, you don't pay the fees as if you chose to cancel it before it ran out?