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67 Shellback · Pony Mullet Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 95

It's time to renew the cell phone contract and I am not at all happy with Cingular. It hasn't worked at either of the 2 houses I have lived in (one south and now by the bay). It stops working around the PINS visitor center. What vendor works best at PINS. I know that service is lousy down the beach. I know this has come up before, but, my memory isn 't as good as it once was. Don't want to get stuck with another 2 year ontract with poor service.

Thanks for the input!

topdog15 · Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:04 pm Post subject:

T-mobile get service for about a mile off the blacktop.
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Sam · Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:57 pm Post subject:

I was getting roam service at the 30 mile marker with Sprint. The phones themselves have alot to do with reception as well as the provider.
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Ro Man · Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 5 Location: Whitehouse

I have verizon and it worked only on top of dunes to 30 mm. It also only worked with my wifes phone. Need a good phone.

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GoinCoastal · Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 3:10 pm Post subject:

Sprint works for me down the beach a pretty good ways. If I remember correctly we made calls from the top of the dunes at Mansfield Jetties using Sprint service. It was either AT&T or Sprint but I can't remember which now.

Big John · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 2647

With Sprint I get digital to the 4wd sign, then intermently down to Big Shell. From there, intermently from the tops of tall dunes, picking back up on the beach here and there on the way down. Past the 55mm I get regular digital service.

I never go roam for calls.
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FB PHIL · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 455

Several yrs ago I had some boat trouble in the Landcut near the Nine Mi hole chnl entrance and we got Sprint service from the top of the berm on the east side of the main channel and the roof top of a cabin a little farther north. I also had a good phone.

Big John · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 2647

Let me add one more thing about Sprint. Two summers ago when fishing with a buddy on his boat for snapper at the near shore rigs off the beach (about 4 or 5 miles out), my wife called to see how we were doing, and the phone rang. Sure enough, I had 4 out of 5 bars of signal strength.
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danver · Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 1:54 am Post subject: Phone service

My Chevy Z71 tranny has been giving me probs. therefore I went to the beach in my wife's suburban Z71 4x4. It has ONSTAR. Wow!!!! Very Happy

I had phone service throughout the 60 or so miles of PINS. I sure wish I could get it on my P/Up. It's a 2000 and it was not available when I purchased it, but it sure is handy.

rabbit · Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 6:55 am Post subject:

I have sprint and I get Digital Roaming sitting in my house in FLOUR BLUFF Mad

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Sam · Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 11:48 am Post subject:

rabbit · Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 12:26 pm Post subject:

FB PHIL · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 455

I also live in the Bluff, just west of the High school a ways, and I only get a signal strength of 2 bars sitting in my recliner with Sprint. There is absolutely no Sprint service outside of Paortland, Ore.(you better be in a major city in the Pac NW or np signal). It's pretty agravating when I visit my son there. Even on NAS I get alot of dropped calls, probably from the radio signals on NAS.

safirenfish · Horse Mullet Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 177

just got back 3 weeks ago from pins, we were at the15 mile mark and i was able to call momma each night on my nokia phone with sprint service. i was sitting in a lawn chair at the water, if i go farther down the beach i need to get on a sanddune and my phone will reach out. this is the only reason i went with sprint......

safirenfish · Horse Mullet Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 177

[quote="rabbit"]I have sprint and I get Digital Roaming sitting in my house in FLOUR BLUFF Mad

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take your phone into sprint and have them recallibrate it....sounds funny but they can make it recognize more towers.....something like that- i did it on my phone and now it gets a signal at the waters edge at pins 15 miles down.......