It still is not clear to me _why_ they feel it is a better
> system than the phone I was using but they insist it is.
"Better" doesn't necessarily mean "better for you". I expect there are a lot of advantages for them to move customers to GSM phones. When my phone needed replacing I let them sell me a GSM phone/plan, and in my opinion the sound quality sucks, the ATT GSM network (at the time) wasn't as widespread, and I have constant problems with dropped calls and wildly varying reception, even when standing still in a spot that initially shows "5 bars". If I had any reason to believe that any of the other providers was any better I'd switch from Cingular.
John Meissen snipped-for-privacy@aracnet.com