Quite a while back I bought a family member the Nokia 6030, and although it works ok enough not to have returned it, it has never seemed to have quite the earpiece volume other phones used from the same area do.

I saw recently that Cingular is now offering that phone (new or refurbished) at a pretty low price. I've been thinking of trying to replace the old one because the my family member likes the fm radio in the phone, but the quality of basic calls isn't great.

My question is: Has anyone else used the Nokia 6030 (new or refurbished), and have other people found inferior quality of calls or else found the phone as good as others.

(If I ask Cingular, all they'll say is, "If it doesn't work you can return it." I can't really be bothered buying it, giving it to someone, waiting to hear feedback, and then returning it.)

No, sorry. For business use I have the 6101 and that's all I need. It works decently. The problem is Rogers and their delivery of voice messages. Sometimes they don't show up until the next day. Almost 24 hours later. That's crap.

I've always had a Nokia up until I switched to a Dopod C500 which is an HTC 710 now. The Nokia's I've had were the most durable and signal tenacious phones I had ever used. My last one was a 6690.

I've noticed that whenever I cross the border and roam onto Cingular, it is a little sketchy sometimes. I guess it depends on the area too. I was in Las Vegas, but Sprint has the monopoly on that city and probably has better access to putting up towers on Casinos.

I've always had a Nokia up until I switched to a Dopod C500 which is an HTC 710 now. The Nokia's I've had were the most durable and signal tenacious phones I had ever used. My last one was a 6690.

I've noticed that whenever I cross the border and roam onto Cingular, it is a little sketchy sometimes. I guess it depends on the area too. I was in Las Vegas, but Sprint has the monopoly on that city and probably has better access to putting up towers on Casinos.

Just my opinion however I feel that it would behoove all carriers if the feds/consortium put up all the towers and then use technology for all on each tower. Possible? Don't know. Make sense? Depends on the tech. It would also eliminate the excuse "no towers in the area. Help the "little guy?" You bet. However, if you think that anyone in the wireless biz is little, well.... I have some stellar water front property in Florida on sale this week. ;) :D

Just my opinion however I feel that it would behoove all carriers if the feds/consortium put up all the towers and then use technology for all on each tower. Possible? Don't know. Make sense? Depends on the tech. It would also eliminate the excuse "no towers in the area. Help the "little guy?" You bet. However, if you think that anyone in the wireless biz is little, well.... I have some stellar water front property in Florida on sale this week. ;) :D

Well, they aren't small anymore since AT&T swallowed them up, but since Sprint sponsored all the Monorail stations in Las Vegas, I wonder who's repeaters will be on top of them. Certainly wouldn't be an AT&T or Cingular one.

Every carrier is responsible for negotiating their own equipment placement. That's why in Canada, TELUS works in some places that BELL doesn't work and vice versa. Also why FIDO had shitty coverage as they were rolling out. Sometimes they can use common towers if it suits their purposes or if they can (like a utility tower), but they are largely responsible for making the deals they need to get their equipment in place.

The only thing the government does, at least here, is allocate the frequency spectrum licenses to the carriers. And here, every carrier has a real estate department that negotiates for placement of their equipment and plots of land for their towers. So yes, it makes sense, no, it isn't the way it happens unfortunately.

Not long ago a huge "flag pole" mysteriously disappeared a couple of miles from my home. I knew there was something "funny" about it, and I later learned it was a disguised cell phone tower.

I looked up cell phone tower disguises and found a number of ways they make an attempt to disguise them (like big, weird, straight, trees).

They're popping up in peculiar places, so I suppose we can all be grateful for big, weird, "flag poles".

Yeah, I saw the TREE Disguise down in LA. It looks REALLY out of place considering everything around it is cement and graffiti...

http://www.stephenfung.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/LA_DSC_0017.jpg

http://www.stephenfung.net/spot-the-cell-phone-tower/

Jaysus Christo, who the hell are they trying to fool with "that" and why? That is ridiculous. Maybe it was the "blight on the landscape" excuse that went horribly wrong. :D

It was near the airport so the only think I can think of is so that the planes don't hit it.

That's "beautiful", isn't it...:eek:


They've been disguised as church steeples, and apparently there was talk of disguising one was a giant cross on church property in Penacook, NJ.

Put flashing lights on it then if they think some dumb ass pilot is going to wing it. He would have a lot of more relevant concerns at this point if he were too close to that. LOL.