Anyone here use Verizon for cell service?

[AMP]

Many existing cell phone customers moved to SWB with the introduction of the Erickson phone and towers up in the Grand Lake area.  Back then there was no service there, and afluent folks that could afford to change services did so at the drop of a hat if it ment having service at their lake houses and while out on their boats.  

There were few competitors then also.  

Seems many people started out with US Cellular then switched to SWB, then moved to the other carriers as they started to open in the market.

I still enjoy my Cricket service, it has been the best value for my use for the past as many years as they have been here.

[Rowdy]

quote:Originally posted by AMP

Many existing cell phone customers moved to SWB with the introduction of the Erickson phone and towers up in the Grand Lake area.  Back then there was no service there, and afluent folks that could afford to change services did so at the drop of a hat if it ment having service at their lake houses and while out on their boats.  

There were few competitors then also.  

Seems many people started out with US Cellular then switched to SWB, then moved to the other carriers as they started to open in the market.

I still enjoy my Cricket service, it has been the best value for my use for the past as many years as they have been here.

Verizon has built out Grand Lake which US Cellular has yet to do I believe.

[AMP]

SWB was there quite a long time ago. Have to grab my records on the 40 SWB cell phones we had at our business at that time. Seems it was around 10 years ago.

We serviced the manufacture and installation firms that built the towers and did the installs.

Towers and buildings were made in two separate locations.  Buildings were assembled over on Charles Page Blvd near the Knotty Pine, some of the towers were made at the Hemphill Corporation off of East Pine.  Installs were handled by a company located East of Garnett on Pine just east of the old Otasco Warehouse building.

That was a fairly large project at the time.

When I worked with AT&T we sold a Broad Band antenna device that mounted on the side of a house.  It handled TV, Data, Phone and Music all wireless.  

The signal came from the lower panels on several cell towers around the area.  About six months into the project, AT&T discoverd the vendor of the units had some major service issues and pulled them off the market.  Great idea, just the roll out seemed premature to market testing of the device.  

We were not allowed to install the device in homes that had Med Alerts or Alarm systems that relied on the hard wired phones, without keeping the hard wired lines to run the Med Alert and the Alarm signals.   Seemed Trees and Leaves were an enemy to the system, also Ice.

I thought it was a neat easy upgrade to the clumsy cable wires running all over town.  Europe had Broad Band wireless long before the US.  Never understood that?

Neighborhood I grew up in had all underground wiring and the homes were total electric.  Wireless Broad Band TV, DATA and Music seems like the near future, just waiting for the next roll out.

[tim huntzinger]

quote:Originally posted by Rowdy

Originally posted by tim huntzinger


I challenge you on AT&T or whatever their current name is of the month on spanking Verizon in any category. Please provide these details on customer churn to us where they are beating Verizon and customer service.  AT&T does not rank at the top in Customer Service I guarantee you.

In the New York market it did.  I will try to get something firmer than that.  In New York, the old Clingular was dealing with rampant customer abuse, and when suckers in Tulsa were paying out the wazzoo for phones New Yorkers were getting free everything to not cancel service.  I am talking free V3 'razors' when they were still $400 here, free PDA's, the whole shooting match.  Any disputed credits immediately handled.  That and Tulsans' laid-back attitude helped stop the bleeding and then some.

[Conan71]

Slightly O/T, but speaking to the competitiveness of advertising and brand recognition:

When Nextel bought the series title rights to NASCAR's premiere series under a ten year agreement, they grand-fathered in any existing car sponsorships from other cellular companies (Alltel and Cingular).

Nextel (Sprint) with the backing of NASCAR brass is trying to block AT&T from changing the Cingular signage to AT&T on the RCR car driven by Jeff Burton.  The claim is that AT&T's subsequent ownership of Cingular doesn't fall into the GF part of their contract.