your old phone was probably a TDMA dual band phone so you got the tdma or analog signal at the lake, when you got your new phone you went to GSM which uses different antennas and does not have the ability to use the old TDMA or analog tower. Cingular forgets to tell people this and almost everyone I know has worse signal with their new phone than they did with the old one. GSM is great if your in an area saturated with cells but once you get outside the main population bases the service is poor. Verizon and Sprint use CDMA technology and have had years to build towers so I have kept Verizon because they are the only ones that give me signals all over the lakes and mountains and even my new phone can grab an analog signal up in the boonies where there are no digital towers.
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