I go to Goldendale allot and the reception seems fine for my T-mobile
prepaid service. I have a stucco house which has a wire mesh underneath
the stucco. That seems to prevent me from making call inside my house.
Once I step outside the signal goes way up. I have wondered if I have a
junkie phone or the wire mesh really screws up the signal.
I have been told that some phones have the power turned down and that
if you talk to the right people you can get it turned up. When I had
Sprint I tried that at there SouthCenter store and they had no idea what
I was talking about so it is important to talk to the "right people"

Be careful with your trial period. In the past and maybe now companys
will give you 30 days to try their service but 15 days for there phone.
So what happens is you are with stuck with a phone that only works with
their service which you have to buy at a high price or use their service.

gshanewood wrote:
> Just last week we made the call to upgrade the phones/plan. My old
> Nokia phone (51xx) had pretty good reception in the gorge and some of
> the remote areas in the surrounding hills (Goldendale area).
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> So now we have new Nokia (61xx) phones and our coverage seems spottier
> than before. One possible reason is that the new phones are digital
> only, whereas the old one had analog as well?
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> We stuck with AT&T/Cingular because the old coverage was pretty good.
> As I understand it, Cingular now does not support analog anymore, so
> you can expect decreased coverage from them in remote areas. Our
> gorge trip this past weekend included a couple of dropped calls in
> spots where we could make calls before. Hmmmm.
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> We have two more weeks to get out of this service if we decide to go
> with someone else. The other contender in the area seems to be
> Verizon. They also still have analog service on most of their towers.
> Can anybody speak to the level of Verizon service in the gorge area,
> and if you've had Cingular previously, maybe compare the two?
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> We have no need for text messaging, camera features, etc. Just
> looking for phone service in the gorge and Goldendale areas.
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> Tnx
> Gary
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