http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/ Engadget Mobile Comments for BBB largely rules for Cingular in ad battle with Sprint Nextel http://www.engadgetmobile.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgetmobile.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/Jun 28th 2006 5:47PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/Jun 28th 2006 6:34PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/Jun 28th 2006 7:19PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/
Factor in that Sprint and Verizon's EVDO-RevA plans are very real and very soon - Sprint plans to have their entire network EV-DO Rev0 by the end of 06 and RevA by the end of 07 - and suddenly, Sprint's Native broadband data coverage map will look incredibly sexy.]]>Jun 28th 2006 7:20PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/
On top of that, each rev of CDMA has required only minor backplane and network card changes, not an en-masse migration like what GSM-->WCDMA-->HSDPA is requiring.

Whatever sh*t it is you're smoking, I'm sure it's good...but yah gotta stop man.

]]>Jun 28th 2006 9:11PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/Network integration will bring chrun even lower, and that's a fact. What will be of Vzw when they can no longer say they have the most reliable network? There won't be anything left to brag about. Because we all know CDMA phones (especially Vzw's; suck!)

Oh and this is for flamer's girl: Don't hold your breath on Cingular being number two again. It AIN'T happening. ]]>Jun 28th 2006 10:48PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/
You are insane if you think the two are anything alike. The ONLY similarity between the two is that they both use a coded air-interface. Hence each of them having connections to CDMA.

HSDPA is based upon the GSM-core technology with a coded air-interface implemented in place of the time-divison that plain old GSM uses. It's superior to EV-DO in that it simultaneously does voice and data...something that EV-DO unfortunately cannot do as of now.

The two technologies are as different as night and day. Perhaps you would do better looking up some white papers on each.]]>Jun 28th 2006 10:49PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/Jun 28th 2006 10:58PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/Jun 29th 2006 1:25AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/Jun 29th 2006 1:28AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/Jun 29th 2006 1:31AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/Jun 29th 2006 2:48AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/
@10. HSDPA is simply a software upgrade to UMTS equipment. Just as EDGE is software upgrade to GPRS, HSDPA is the same to UMTS.

UMTS is literally the technology that the equipment on the towers use and HSDPA is only an enhancement that pushes speeds higher.

It is actually UMTS and WCDMA that are referencing the same thing and are used interchangably.]]>Jun 29th 2006 1:39PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/Jun 29th 2006 2:09PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/
However, I would avoid using a phone without the 850mhz band on Cingular at all costs. Since the merge with AT&T, much of Cingular's coverage has become 850mhz due to selling off 1900mhz assets to T-Mobile in places there was overlapping coverage between the two networks.

If you must keep the phone that you currently have, go with T-Mobile as you're taking a risk that it will not work on Cingular. I also must warn you that if it is a 3G phone equipped with either UMTS or HSDPA support, it will not work here in the states. The only HSDPA coverage that Cingular has deployed is in the 850mhz band, unlike that of the rest of the world that uses 2100mhz for UMTS and HSDPA.

From everything you have stated, I would highly suggested going with T-Mobile.

Good luck!]]>Jun 29th 2006 2:28PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/
If you are used to GSM and can't imagine living without SIM-card swap-ability, stick with cingular. Once you get used to a SIM, it's hard to go back. If that sort of thing doesn't matter to you, then Sprint is a good option. Everyone poo-poos their network, but I've had Sprint for eight months and it's worked everywhere I've been in the US, and their EV-DO data network is the fastest current option for data.]]>Jun 29th 2006 6:22PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/Jul 26th 2006 6:39PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/Jul 26th 2006 6:40PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/Sep 8th 2006 6:21PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/Nov 10th 2006 3:14PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/Nov 10th 2006 3:15PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/28/bbb-largely-rules-for-cingular-in-ad-battle-with-sprint-nextel/
* HSDPA is software which pushes speed higher. Does HSDPA help to combine voice and data?
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