While cruising from about 1995 to 2002, we have always used an ATT cellphone on the Onerate plan in SE Alaska. We plan to return this summer. Now that ATT and Cingular have merged we are looking at changing to a Cingular gsm phone and plan. We are primarily intersted in using it for voice transmission. It's unclear to us whether we would have coverage in SE Alaska and if we did, would it be covered under our plan as far as long distance and roaming charges. The sales folks have told us that we wouldn't have coverage, but they also told us the same thing years ago for our ATT phone and we did. Hopefully some of our listees who are more technically oriented can guide us. If it won't work, we will probably keep our ATT phone as we're not to wild about Verizon now that Carlyle has bought out our local (Hawaii) Verizon. Thanks, Dick __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com

How interesting! I just switched from ATT TDMA to Cingular GSM. After looking at length at the coverage info on their web site I concluded that GSM coverage in SE AK should be at least as good as TDMA was. Hope that's right! I wanted to get away from TDMA because coverage has DECREASED in parts of Utah, and also BC, since I first got ATT in 1999. They seemed to have put lower priority on TDMA coverage and/or roaming agreements in recent years (regardless of my supposedly nationwide One-Rate contract), and have placed their bets more on GSM. That's what my Cingular dealer said, as well. I sure would be pleased if GSM coverage in the PNW is better than the deteriorating TDMA coverage up there. Does anyone know more specifically? Richard Cook New Moon - Bounty 257 Holladay, Utah Dick "Tator" or Patti wrote: > While cruising from about 1995 to 2002, we have always > used an ATT cellphone on the Onerate plan in SE > Alaska. We plan to return this summer. Now that ATT > and Cingular have merged we are looking at changing to > a Cingular gsm phone and plan. We are primarily > intersted in using it for voice transmission. It's > unclear to us whether we would have coverage in SE > Alaska and if we did, would it be covered under our > plan as far as long distance and roaming charges. The > sales folks have told us that we wouldn't have > coverage, but they also told us the same thing years > ago for our ATT phone and we did. Hopefully some of > our listees who are more technically oriented can > guide us. If it won't work, we will probably keep our > ATT phone as we're not to wild about Verizon now that > Carlyle has bought out our local (Hawaii) Verizon. > Thanks, Dick > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > All your favorites on one personal page Try My Yahoo! > http://my.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers-and-trawlering > > To unsubscribe send email to > trawlers-and-trawlering-request@lists.samurai.com with the word > UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message. > > Trawlers and Trawlering, T and T, Trawlers & Trawlering, and T&T are > trademarks of Water World International. Unauthorized use is prohibited. > >