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Jul 31, 2005 | 3:21 pm

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Originally Posted by kanebear

Cellular One/Cingular STILL hasn't done anything with their Balto/Wash network? HOLY SH!T! I was a student at GWU in 1991 and back then they were absolutely positively the WORST carrier in DC. BAMS was the only way to go and the pricing reflected it, they were easily 1.5x the cost of C-1 AND had a smaller coverage area!

What I really miss is Sprint Spectrum/APC. They had good customer care, the best network (at that time) in the DC area, decent retail locations and the pricing wasn't extortionate. When APC sold out to Sprint PCS that was the end. I thought Voicestream/T-mobile got all the network equipment in that transition but in recent trips to DC the network seems quite inferior to what APC had.

Have you tried Verizon? No recent experience but they had an excellent network and good customer service even way back when.

I haven't tried Verizon myself, but my buddies who have it seem to stick with it. Cingular has improved in DC (a bit), but its coverage nationwide seems to cause me more trouble than Sprint's network, which is improving even as its customer service has slipped.

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