-GE> I've been avoiding making a commercial plug, but I AM an
-GE> agent for Bell
-GE> Atlantic NYNEX Mobile.
I'm just a cellular nut, sold cellular in the past, may do it again if I can 
get an agent line out of the deal. In this market BANM doesn't limit their 
agent lines. Cell One Boston agent lines are limited to a measly 1000 
minutes, plus you have to pay your own LL charges.
-GE> I sold for them when I worked at
-GE> Radio Shack, and
-GE> now I work for the largest independent BANM agent in the
-GE> Pittsburgh
-GE> region.
I call them "Balls Atlantic" because they've really started getting 
aggressive in this market. I like what I see. They want business and they're 
going after it. Cellular One appears to be sitting around in a state of 
disbeleif, lulled by years of Nynex doing nothing. I with they would take the 
Nynex out of their name, it doesn't do them justice and is an insult. It's 
the Bell Atlantic people that are making things happen.
In the NorthEast Super Region as they call it, they're testing a plan with 
unlimited offpeak for $29.98 a month. Great deal, no LL charge, the calls 
really are free. I hope they adopt it as a feature than can be added to any 
of their plans.
-GE> I sounds like a good phone. My company carries Motorola,
-GE> Nokia, and
-GE> Audiovox. I have no qualms about selling any of them,
-GE> though I push the
-GE> Motorolas, as I've had fewer post sale complaints about
-GE> them than any
-GE> other phone. The Nokias have lots of great bells and
-GE> whistles, but then
-GE> I end up spending a lot of post-sale time trying to explain
-GE> how they
-GE> work.
Our Motorola TX400 is a good performer, 3 watts, battery, and hands free. The 
hands free picks up a lot of noise where the Diamondtel is amazingly quiet. 
Last month the TX400 got around 1100 minutes of use, low compared to the 
nearly 6000 on the 92 but enough to convince me that it's a good phone and 
that we'll probably keep it. I wonder if you know of a way of lowering the 
sensitivity on the HF system, it's so loud at times that it's very annoying 
to the poor person we're talking to on the other end. On the handset the 
audio on the TX400 is impressive, very clear, and because BANM uses Omni 
rather than sectorized there are a lot few handoffs so the calls sound great. 
I'm impressed.
-GE> However, the Qualcomm hybrid digital/analog phone we talked
-GE> about
-GE> earlier looks very impressive and sounds great, if only the
-GE> price would
-GE> come down. $500 (with activation) is a wee bit pricy.
Wow, that is expensive, holy cow, been a long time since cellular phones were 
that pricey.
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