Can anyone else get these freqs with there phones in rolla. According to some maps, T-mobile should have some towers. Thanks

I have cingular and when I set my phone to 900 / 1800 mode it can't see anything. I figured it would jump to the T-Mobile towers if they were available, but it didn't. Maybe that helps.

I know some people down here to have T-Mobile and get service just fine.

Cingular may not roam onto TMo's network. My sister has TMo, I have Cingular, and when we were driving out to Washington DC last summer, there were places in the middle of nowhere where she would get a full signal from TMo, and I would get jack shit from Cingular, so I guess Cingular doesn't roam over to TMo, otherwise, I would've had a signal too.

I'll know for sure about TMo service in a couple months when our Cingular contract expires and we switch. Cingular's service is horrible.

And yeah, TMo's coverage map shows Rolla as having full signal. The maps for the regular plan include roaming areas, so I checked the prepaid map, which does not have roaming, and thus, is native TMo network, and again, full coverage. If you have a Cingular phone, it might just be locked down to not go onto other networks.

well, the think is I have an unlocked phone, so thats why I dont really get why its not just picking up the T-M networks. If I went over to there store, do you think they would help?

I've got an unlocked phone too and it won't pick up T either. But if the SIM card is instructing the phone to block anything but Cingular, then there's not much you could do.


I'm curious, why are you trying to get onto T's network anyways?

My quad-band Cingular phone lists both Cingular and T-Mobile networks here in Rolla, but of course I can't connect to T-mobile's network because of roaming, and I can't tell you which frequency it is on.

Because the phone I got only works on the networks in the title, and cingulars towers of that freq dont reach rolla and according to some maps I saw, T has one that does. So I would just like to be able to use my new phone. It would kinda suck if I couldnt

Yeah, you might not be able to since your SIM is probably blocking you from roaming onto T.

When I bought a new phone, I made sure to get a quad band for that very reason. I was originally going to get the Sony Ericsson w900i, but that was only tri-band so I'd be in the same position you are. I settled for the w810i, which is still an awesome phone, and quadband.

Even if you could roam to T, most cell phone companies have a clause stating that if more than 50% of your calls are spent roaming on someone else's network for so many consecutive months, they'll drop you since it costs them too much money to let you roam. And you'd be roaming 100% of the time. Which, if you're like me and absolutely despise Cingular and can't wait to get out of a contract, might be a good thing.

I have a Cingular quad-band phone. (Motorola L2). Never really had much of a problem in Rolla. Few problems I've had were in the ResCo. It's just peachy here in TJ South.

Cingular is fine in rural areas. I've made calls in towns a tiny fraction of the size of Rolla and the quality was that of a landline. It's the big cities they suck in. I have problem in St. Louis. Been to Washington DC, had signal problems. Signal sucked in New Orleans (pre-Katrina, when cell towers were still standing). Hell, I had problems in New York. It's bad when a cell phone provider can't get you a reliable signal in the middle of fucking Manhattan, the largest city in this country.

I have T-Mobile and almost never dont get service, except for in the RC because that place is a death trap for cell phones.

So I'm coming to the conclusion that the cell phone I have now is basically just not going to work in Rolla right? bummer

I think some motorola phones can be switched from dual to tri to quad-band through some simple firmware edits, though I have never tried this.

I've got sprint and i've been able to get reception everywhere around rolla, even way off the beaten path. But i've got free roaming so it will pick up any carrier's signal and use it.

I've got T-Mobile... works great in Rolla.