post the first topic on mycingular.net

It's slow. Though, it is also Cingular, who charges you for each kilobyte you transfer.

The customer service reps tell me that it's supposed to run at about fax speed, as in 9-14 Kbps...lol  ;)

Yea, they do, it's just incredibly slow.

I think, in all seriousness, I am going to sit down and write a letter to Cingular HQ and explain to them that if they don't catch up with the other phone companies sometime soon, they are going to lose all sorts of customers.

I mean, for god's sake, a year and a half after Verizon comes out with about 10 music-player phones cingular comes out with one that's got iTunes on it. So, Verizon says 'ok' and does the same.......and their phone is out a week later!!!!

I'm not saying I don't like Cingular, though, for all the crap I have been through with them replacing my phone about 7 times, and constantly having a bill of at least $20 over what it should be, they should pay me to be a customer! lol  ;)

lol...yea, but you can't install java apps on Verizon phones!! ;)

how much are you paying for edge access? My phone can use it, i just don't want to tack on another $80 a month onto my $120 phone bill!! lol

cingulars stuff is slow because the haven't opened it up all the way, hopefully they will someday. In general all this stuff is slow but at least on verizons EVDO they opened it up and made it actually useable.

haha, yea, I think thats the problem...

idk if i am in a cingular 3g city....any way to find out?

First no 3G service will go that fast right now. your luck if you get 2Mbps right now.

And second, You can't use the opera mini browser to do a speed test. Opera mini uses a proxy to display the full page. The page is downloaded and rendered on there server. So when you do a speed test using opera mini, the test is actually taken on operas server, not the phone.

Blackberry's do the same thing.

And third this thread is two years old. So speeds have changed considerably.
Reply #10 on: June 20, 2006, 07:55:21 PM »