Cingular, Sprint, or Verizon?

[War Wagon]

Please fucking tell me you didn't suggest that hills have no æffect on cell phone reception?

No, that's not what I suggested, dipshit

That's why they erect them on hills in the first place...and one cellphone tower is much like another...all the major services lease them from which ever one haggled with the local municipality to erect said cell tower in the first place.

Keep flailing around like a drunken sailor though, Dims.

This is FUN.

Hey Mikey, you might get your "archive" wish afterall, just not how you intended.

[Y2K]

Well I sure as hell want my kids friends calling our cells all the time like when I'm busy with work and driving and shit.

Your kids friends call your cell?

I'm no sucker.

Yes, you are.

I enjoy the constant disruption and when the room moms call about class parties and stuff I get to stop what important thing I am currently doing and chat. People with a land line and answering machine are plain stupid. Having an electronic leash is the only way to go.

They have these things called off buttons on cell phones, and voice mail.

You should try it.

Whooooosh
all the way through Whiteys head and out the other side........

Why am I not surprised? It's getting to be just another redundant service to pay for I guess.

[War Wagon]

sprint's cell signals do not go into that hole. hills do matter.

et tu, eric?

Sheesh...which part of "if one cellphone service doesn't work there, no cellphone service will work there" aren't you communication challenged folks getting?

Goddamn, do I have to draw you fucking retards a picture?

[War Wagon]

Whooooosh

What?

The sound of air rushing thru one side of your head and out the other without impediment?

Concur.

[Dinsdale]

No, that's not what I suggested, dipshit

Actually, that's EXACTLT what you suggested, and contunue to do so.

There's about 2 million people or so in the metro area I live in, give or take. They pretty much have the cell tower thing dialed in. That said, there's places in the middle of the city where when you drop in the sub-valley, your call gets dropped...every time. Not just me, but every single person I frequently talk to, regardless of provider.

Coincedence, or do those frequencies maybe not go through solid rock as well as they do through air?

Think your answer through now...

That's why they erect them on hills in the first place

Wow, I guess you really are this clueless...you DO realize there's several hundred of those "hill" things around here, right? I can only imagine how much they'd charge for service if they erected a tower on every one of them(that's tossing the entire issue of feasability aside).

What an unmitigated display of dumbassery you're putting on. Keep it up, though -- it's amusing.

[Dinsdale]

Concur.

Why yes, you ARE the worst offender when it comes to "I know you are, but what am I?"

You WILL apologize to the board, right fucking now.

Don't bother responding, either...I will never read another one of your posts.

You were warned.

[Mister Bushice]

sprint's cell signals do not go into that hole. hills do matter.

et tu, eric?

Sheesh...which part of "if one cellphone service doesn't work there, no cellphone service will work there" aren't you communication challenged folks getting?

Goddamn, do I have to draw you fucking retards a picture?

Verizon has better coverage outside of most california cities than cingular, thus cingular celphone service doesn't work there, but verizon celphone service does. They publish fucking MAPS that show their service coverage areas.

Your idiocy gets more entertaining with each additional post, whitey.

[jtr]

http://www.metropcs.com/default.php

This will be my service in the future when it comes to my area.

MetroPCS brings a fresh approach to traditional wireless by continuing to make wireless service simple, convenient and easy to use. MetroPCS offers a flat rate service with no contract that allows consumers to pay by the month, not the minute. In addition, the company gives consumers a unique opportunity to enjoy advanced wireless phone service without the hassles of contracts

[War Wagon]

there's places in the middle of the city where when you drop in the sub-valley, your call gets dropped...every time. Not just me, but every single person I frequently talk to, regardless of provider.

What? You mean that cellphones don't work everywhere?

I'm aghast at this revelation.

We should start dragging our landlines around with us then.

Wait, how's that going to work?

Dims, now is the time for you to start backing away slowly, because you're not even half as smart as you think you are.

Bullshit and bluster will only get you so far in life, son.

[War Wagon]

Verizon has better coverage outside of most california cities than cingular, thus cingular celphone service doesn't work there, but verizon celphone service does. They publish fucking MAPS that show their service coverage areas.

So?

Do you have both services, Bitchshice? Are you that guy walking around and saying "can you hear me now?" and can present empirical evidence of this fact? Or do you just look at the maps these companies publish and take it as fact?

Your idiocy gets more entertaining with each additional post...

As does your being an utter cunt, but that's never stopped you from being the complete dumbass that you continually are.

[War Wagon]

You WILL apologize to the board, right fucking now.

Don't bother responding, either...I will never read another one of your posts.

You were warned.

Wow, what a nice wittle meltdown Dinsypoo is having herself tonite.

First you said that I will apologize right now, and then immediately afterwards you said to not bother responding...this is good stuff...this is sig material.

Apologize? For what? Me being right and the rest of you having shit for brains?

Not gonna' happen.

[Mikey]

I'll never give up my land line though...

So you pay for redundant services.

P.T. Barnum nailed it.

Uh, moron, my landline is paid for by my employer. It has a fax attached to it (you got one of those on your cellphone?). It also has a speakerphone that works a lot better than any cellular "speaker" phone you can get.

Samuel Clemens nailed it.

[War Wagon]

Samuel Clemens nailed it.

Mark Twain nailed a lot of things, Mikey.

To which one do you refer?

Was it the one about having more money than brains?

[Mister Bushice]

Verizon has better coverage outside of most california cities than cingular, thus cingular celphone service doesn't work there, but verizon celphone service does. They publish fucking MAPS that show their service coverage areas.

So?

Do you have both services, Bitchshice? Are you that guy walking around and saying "can you hear me now?" and can present empirical evidence of this fact? Or do you just look at the maps these companies publish and take it as fact?

No, I'm the guy walking around saying "Whitey is a fucking idiot".

Can you hear me now?

and BTW - I've had cingular service, it only worked well in the populated areas, lots of dropped calls in farmland.

Funny thing, cingulars coverage maps indicate that their coverage isn't that great in between cities.

Who'a thunk that? Actual proof that the coverage maps don't lie.

Not the the FCC wouldn't step in or anything if they were lying.....

Dumb ass.

Whitey - lowering the bar.

[poptart]

When I lived in Houston I always prefered to just use the payphone.

[Derron]

Coincedence, or do those frequencies maybe not go through solid rock as well as they do through air?

I am guessing that an explanation of how 800mgHz and 900mgHz radio signals behave and frequency wave lengths relationship's to terrain and obstacles would probably be useless??

[Derron]

Apologize? For what? Me being right and the rest of you having shit for brains?

Swing and a miss..... nice way to go for the fence and twist your fucking shoulder right out of the socket....

Nice try on a bode call, but a miserable failure as usual....do you understand how cell radio waves work mensa ??

[Derron]

First you said that I will apologize right now, and then immediately afterwards you said to not bother responding...this is good stuff...this is sig material.

Hmmm.... back up a bit here and check your shit for brains post........Dins demanded you apologize now.. which is a general and open statement (apology ) to the board.

He then stated not to RESPOND which is a good thing.....RESPONDING is different than posting the general apology to the board

I get it and I am sure most every one else does as well.. unfortunatley this is a hard concept to convert to a picture board story so you may understand it.

[Mikey]

Samuel Clemens nailed it.

Mark Twain nailed a lot of things, Mikey.

To which one do you refer?

Was it the one about having more money than brains?

Nah, the one that applies to you. You know, about keeping your yap shut and being thought a fool being better than opening it and confirming the suspicion?

[Goober McTuber]

Like what bad things?

No problems here...nary a dropped call, has service damn near anywhere I've been the past few years, and I've been all over.

What? You mean that cellphones don't work everywhere?

I'm aghast at this revelation.


Bullshit and bluster will only get you so far in life, son.

I think you’re a little light on the bluster.

[Screw_Michigan]

You know, about keeping your yap shut and being thought a fool being better than opening it and confirming the suspicion?

better to let them know that you aren't stupid then to open your mouth and let them know.

[KC Scott]

Those 15 lb. phone books that TVO sits on when he gets a haircut will also start to dwindle in size, until they too disappear.

Bwa

Would buying a better phone improve the performance, or are most of the phones so close in quality that it doesn't matter?

No. The real key is how many towers the provider has and where they are in proximity to your calling area. I have Sprint (based here in KC) and the reception sucks at my house 25 minutes east of downtown.

I don't think there's any service that does not have "dead spots".

Sheesh...which part of "if one cellphone service doesn't work there, no cellphone service will work there" aren't you communication challenged folks getting?

Wrong - The wife gets a great signal on her T Mobile here at the house

When I lived in Houston I always prefered to just use the payphone.

You know bums piss and jerk on pay phones don't you?

It's gott be one hell of an emergency to use a public phone

[Trampis]

...but there are times when I'm on long rides where there's no pay phones (or anything else) nearby. So I'm getting one mostly for moments like that,....

On those long rides out into the mountains or our fair eastside of the state you may hit a lot of dead zones where your cell phone might not work either.

Nextel is the thing to have where I live.

[War Wagon]

The real key is how many towers the provider has and where they are in proximity to your calling area.

I don't think there's any service that does not have "dead spots".

Sheesh...which part of "if one cellphone service doesn't work there, no cellphone service will work there" aren't you communication challenged folks getting?

Wrong - The wife gets a great signal on her T Mobile here at the house

Ok, I'll grant that there are exceptions, but for the most part, if one company has erected a cell tower in a certain area, the other providers will lease that tower if they currently don't already have service in that area.

Case in point: I read a news article recently about how T-Mobile wanted to erect a new tower in the Gladstone area and needed approval from the city. Some citizens were opposed to it during some public hearings that were held to debate the issue. They thought that it would be an eyesore, and that other providers would also want to put up their own towers in the same vicinity. Then they found out that other companies would be able to use that same tower for their own equipment by leasing it from T-Mobile, and that allayed some of their concerns and the tower is going up.

My guess is that for those areas around the country where one service might work and another doesn't, it's just a matter of time before the others start catching up.

Question for you Scott. Why would your wife and yourself use two different services? Couldn't you save money by just having one or the other? Sounds like T-Mobile works best in your area, so why not go with them solely? Regardless, that just bolsters my initial point about T-Mobile having good service, at least in the midwest and south.

And for the dweebs in the thread taking weak-assed potshots, I do regret one thing...that I stayed up way too late last nite arguing about phone service with you West coast perps. Silly me.

Do what you want with your phone service. Keep your land lines if that gives some extra sense of security...or don't. Use whatever cell provider you want, or try 'em all and report back which works best.

Or just go fuck yourselves...whatever makes you happy. :wink:

[The Assassin]

I've got cingular. Great customer service but they could knock out some of their fees.

[Bobby42]

When I lived in Houston I always prefered to just use the payphone.

When I was into phone sex, I used to finish off by blasting a fresh, warm, gooey one right onto the phone. I'd try to alternate between drenching the microphone so the gal on the other end could hear it, and the reciever, so I'd get to hear a simulated gargling effect.

I see no reason why folks in Houston would be any different....just a thought

The sicko, shock, somebody-look-at-me stuff doesn't work anymore.

[Bobby42]

When I was into phone sex, I used to finish off by blasting a fresh, warm, gooey one right onto the phone. I'd try to alternate between drenching the microphone so the gal on the other end could hear it, and the reciever, so I'd get to hear a simulated gargling effect.

I see no reason why folks in Houston would be any different....just a thought

The sicko, shock, somebody-look-at-me stuff doesn't work anymore.

Well...there's also the fact that when you use a payphone that you often share spit with mau-mau lips.

Not that you would mind that.

^^^

Note to anyone looking for a payphone and finding every one of them stripped of their handsets.

[Diego in Seattle]

...but there are times when I'm on long rides where there's no pay phones (or anything else) nearby. So I'm getting one mostly for moments like that,....

On those long rides out into the mountains or our fair eastside of the state you may hit a lot of dead zones where your cell phone might not work either.

Nextel is the thing to have where I live.

Most of my long rides have been to Portland, although I had one to the eastern side of Oregon out Hwy 26. None of them yet have been out 90, although I might take a trip on my own to Spokane when it cools off. I'll keep that in mind when I get my phone.

And people are dead-right about using payphones.....that is when one can find them.

[Dinsdale]

I might take a trip on my own to Spokane when it cools off.

What on earth for?

While the terrain may "knock down" a little bit more moisture than the rest of Eastern Washington...

Why?

Just because it's a little bit less of an armpit than the rest of Eastern WA, it still doesn't make it a travel destination. Sure, it sucks slightly less than Tri-Cities, but that don't make it cool.

There's 256 different kinds of sagebrush indigenous to eastern WA...and they all look the same. But hey, at least something grows there that doesn't have an irrigation pipe leading to it.

I think there's a Spokane trip in my near future...can you tell I'm happy about it? Hella-long drive from here. Don't even have access to the dirt bikes and private motocross track anymore.

[Dinsdale]

Hey Dins, isn't Kennewick about like that?

Kennwick is one of the Tri-Cities(along with Richland and Pasco). Spokane is Nature's Freaking Wonderland compared to Tri-Cities.

A probable place for The enema tube?

An excellent non-Nevada nomination.

Any city where they dance in the streets if it rains more than 3 drops, it's probably a safe bet that it sucks.

Oh yeah, that's where they store the stuff that will eventually kill the Pacific Ocean right after the Columbia River dies.

Hanford is north of there...a decent distance, but a quick jaunt by shithole desert standards, I guess.


Takes a rare breed to live in Tri-Cities...about halfway between the nasty nasty nuke dump(wha? We can't just dump that stuff in the cracks in the ground?), and the chemical weapons depot. And those never-ending 70MPH wind gusts...how can you not like that, when there's 0.0% humidity?

But hey, it never rains, so it's got that going for it.


(Bitchin place to grow grapes if you can get water from the river, though.)

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

Mark this down as the only time in the history of these jim rome offshoot message boards that flat land has achieved BODE on Dins.

Up here in the midwest - in the northern branch - I average about zero dropped calls a day, and customer service is also great. I have Verizon.

[Trampis]

Hey Dins, isn't Kennewick about like that?

Kennwick is one of the Tri-Cities(along with Richland and Pasco). Spokane is Nature's Freaking Wonderland compared to Tri-Cities.

A probable place for The enema tube?

An excellent non-Nevada nomination.

Any city where they dance in the streets if it rains more than 3 drops, it's probably a safe bet that it sucks.

Oh yeah, that's where they store the stuff that will eventually kill the Pacific Ocean right after the Columbia River dies.

Hanford is north of there...a decent distance, but a quick jaunt by shithole desert standards, I guess.


Takes a rare breed to live in Tri-Cities...about halfway between the nasty nasty nuke dump(wha? We can't just dump that stuff in the cracks in the ground?), and the chemical weapons depot. And those never-ending 70MPH wind gusts...how can you not like that, when there's 0.0% humidity?

But hey, it never rains, so it's got that going for it.


(Bitchin place to grow grapes if you can get water from the river, though.)

Whats nice to keep in mind when bitching about Hanford is the fact that it was a rather large contributer to the ending of WW2 with Japan. That whole nasty bomb thingy they helped to develope...

We may have 256 varieties of sagebrush,but at least we dont have a homeless meth adict epedemic. I think Portland hosts many more varieties of druged out beggar freaks per capita then anywhere here on the dry side. We drysiders like to load up our mega SUV's,set the cruise on 75,and head on down I84 to go see how the other side lives and deals with such large spastic homeless populations. We drink some of your fine microbrews,at least you guys do something right,cuss your big city trafic,then head back to the nice wide open spaces where one can sprawl about.

[Husker4ever]

RACK Jack on text messaging. Less needing that crap ever. It's a toy for teenagers.

Somebody needs to tell my mid 30's wife that shit. I bitch for 2 consecutive months about her 300 text messages and how 15 year olds do that shit so she signs up for unlimited text messaging (told me it was 6.99 a month) Get the phone bill and it's actually 24.99. I'm livid and axe all text messaging off the phones and now she's livid....it's not like I'll be missing the pussy I wasn't getting anyway!

Oh yeah....Cellular One which was recently bought out by U.S. Cellular

[Derron]

we dont have a homeless meth adict epedemic.

Maybe not homeless, but dude, I get to the East side of both OR and WA, and I have seen more functioning tweakers than ever. I call bullshit on no meth addicts....I saw more speed and coke freaks in the East side 25 years ago, so I have to assume that nubmer can only increase...

Of course you forgot to mention the alcoholic, drunk tweaking dog eating Indians, stumbling down Main Street drunk and hopped up on meth, or the white trash good ole boys beating the shit out of any low lifes they fun across..

No... I don't see any drug problems in Eastern WA (sup Spokane??) or Eastern OR ( sup Madras ??)

Just a bunch of you wanna be boheminas who think you got bode for living in Sagebrush Gluch, and have to come to the west side to find and resembalance of culture or normal life.

[Goober McTuber]

Derron talking about culture would be comparable to John Mark Karr discussing the NFL.

[Derron]

Gobbler MyCock having an original take, not dependent upon current events and / or anothers post would be highly unlikely.

[Goober McTuber]

Gee, Derron, if nobody could post about current events or in response to another’s post, this would be a really fascinating message board, huh? You’re kind of a dumbfuck, you do realize that, don’t you?

[PSUFAN]

the only time in the history of these jim rome offshoot message boards that flat land has achieved BODE on Dins.

Jeez...I told you years ago. BODE ain't tough...just Claim it, and it will Come.

[Dinsdale]

Any city where they dance in the streets if it rains more than 3 drops

Speaking of which, there's these microscopic drops of moisture falling from the sky this morning. Sure, they're microscopic, but it's done that all of once in about the last 3 months, and those showers pretty muched missed my neck of the woods.

Crazy.

I get to the East side of both OR and WA, and I have seen more functioning tweakers than ever.

Werd to your toothless mama.

Can't believe Dirt Farmer even tried to go there.

Of course you forgot to mention the alcoholic, drunk tweaking dog eating Indians, stumbling down Main Street drunk and hopped up on meth, or the white trash good ole boys beating the shit out of any low lifes they fun across... ( sup Madras ??)

I see we've been to the same Madras.

Last time I was sentenced to hard labor there...ERRRRR....had work there, a none-too-attractive Injun chick offered me up some evil right on the freaking bar. That was some sketchy times -- I was the only white guy in a crowded bar, and me and my cohorts were the only people in the place that weren't spun. Long story, but replace the lyrics "when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody'd gonna run to him," with "when Skeletor the Injun gets here..."

Population 5000, but a scary, scary town.

Just a bunch of you wanna be boheminas who think you got bode for living in Sagebrush Gluch, and have to come to the west side to find and resembalance of culture or normal life.

"Culture or normal life"? More like "modern medicine and shoes."

Claim it, and it will Come.

I was ASKED to troll there!!!! You CHOSE to run me, but I was ASKED to troll.

That tried to blossom into an epic board-war, except none of the participants could seem to keep a straight face while fighting it. And then Skully's "ASKED/CHOSE" rant pretty much sealed its fate.

Good times.

[Trampis]

I claim BODE! for the simple fact that I can piss in the Columbia river and in a matter of weeks it will be in Derrons and Dins drinking water via natures natural water path.