Now I've Seen It All......

amirm

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Hehe :). A related story. About 5 or 6 years I was at the consumer electronics show. This is pre-recession so attendance was very high. I had an AT&T cell phone account. Translation: if you were lucky and stood on one foot, you could get a dial tone and make a phone call during CES. Anyway, I had an important conference call during the day so I thought I would try it using my cell phone. Anticipating problems, I started half hour early hoping to get a call through. Nope. No matter how many times I tried, I could not get a call out.

Frantic, I come outside to the main hallway of the convention center. To my surprise, there were no telephone booths. I walked back and forth. Searched every hall but could not find them. So I get a hold of a security guard and ask him where they were. He said they did not have any. That they had pulled them all out since everyone had a cell phone!!!

I got lucky and my son came to the show. I had my family on Verizon. I took his phone and got a crystal clear call out with zero problems. As soon as I got home, I changed carriers to Verizon.
 

Andre Marc

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Hehe :). A related story. About 5 or 6 years I was at the consumer electronics show. This is pre-recession so attendance was very high. I had an AT&T cell phone account. Translation: if you were lucky and stood on one foot, you could get a dial tone and make a phone call during CES. Anyway, I had an important conference call during the day so I thought I would try it using my cell phone. Anticipating problems, I started half hour early hoping to get a call through. Nope. No matter how many times I tried, I could not get a call out.

Frantic, I come outside to the main hallway of the convention center. To my surprise, there were no telephone booths. I walked back and forth. Searched every hall but could not find them. So I get a hold of a security guard and ask him where they were. He said they did not have any. That they had pulled them all out since everyone had a cell phone!!!

I got lucky and my son came to the show. I had my family on Verizon. I took his phone and got a crystal clear call out with zero problems. As soon as I got home, I changed carriers to Verizon.

AT&T is the pits here in SoCal. I have been on Verizon for 6 years and not a single dropped call. Even got text messages in China.:eek:
 

Peter Breuninger

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ATT is sooo bad during CES. Last year, forget about it, my Iphone was surely just an "I" phone. I missed so many calls. I am going to use the Tmobile Razer spare this year.
 

JackD201

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Andre,

You should check out the sound proof booths with the fake background noises (selectable) that some entrepreneurs are trying to market to clubs. Yeah, like that's gonna work with the girlfriends! LOL.
 

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