yeah well, i have like 5 friends on cingular and they say its better, a few of them have switched from tmobile.

I live in KC and don't even bother with sprint, even though their HQ is right here. Their signal drops inside buildings worse than any other provider I have seen. One of my old jobs sold sprint phones and we were offered an employee discount for service (roughly 20 dollars per month for your average plan minutes wise) since we sold sprint products. Every single employee who had it, couldn't get signal in our building, or in their house, and god forbid you go down in someone's basement - never signal there. however, outside it seemed to work okay.

if I stay with tmobile I will not sign any contract agreement, I will just bite the bullet and pay more for a phone online. I have found some nokias that would meet my needs for around 100 dollars, which is what I would pay with an extension of my contract.