Cell Phone Service

Verizon is the way to go. Best coverage out of any provider.

To cure that roaming problem, call *228 and update the roaming lists. It's option 2 I think.

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2004 Power Tower Crew

Oh I know that but its stupid when i'm sitting in my house turn it on and i'm "roaming" but thanks though.

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'04 TL Speed Zone
'03 Speed Freaks (Hats n Such)
TTD 72 rides (2 nonpaid rollbacks, 5 paid rollbacks)
TaeKwon-Do First Degree Black Belt. (1st dan)

I agree with everyone else about Verizon...I had it last year at the Point and it worked great. I've since switched to Nextel, but I can't yet say how that will work. My advice would be to check a map on your cellular service provider's website to see what areas are covered by your service and/or plan. You may also want to change your local area with them for a few months, if possible, unless your current plan has the same price per minute nationwide.

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~Lee~

Group Sales ATL '01
Group Sales TL '02
Park Admissions Zone 5 Supervisor '03
Park Admissions Supervisor '04
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"The greatest leaders don't take credit for their actions; they don't have to."

I have sprint and a few times on point i made calls and on my bill were roaming charges from Canada!! Must have gotton service on point from there.

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Ok, so I've never worked at CP, but I've used my Verizon phone from there many times with no problems as far as reception goes. Reception was especially great that one time I spent 20 minutes in a Mean Streak train at the top of the hill, but that's a different story..... :)

Now if only my stupid Verizon phone would work in Toledo. Anywhere I go in the city (but especially at the university and my house in Sylvania) I can't keep a call for crap. Upwards of 50% of my calls get dropped, and Verizon's customer service blows me off when I try to talk to them about it. Ok, ending rant in 3, 2, 1.

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-Chris Woodard
Friday, September 18th, 2003 at 10:10 PM. It finally happened. Rollback on Dragster in the front seat of the gold train!

I use Sprint all over the USA and it works fine at CP. The key with Sprint is to Lock on to "Sprint Digital only", then you will not be roaming on the "Canadian" system.

You can get Sprint w/o a contract but it adds like $10 a month to your service. My Sprint works really well (Virgin Mobile uses Sprint's network, that worked well too)

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'04 ATL Top Thrill Dragster
'03 WT crew/ATL Sky Ride
'02 WT crew

I've had Verizon for years and I love it. I was able to make and receive calls on point with no problem. I had friends that had other services, and all they ever did was complain about them and how they never had a signal on point.

I never had a signal in the Sandusky Mall, but I don't think anyone ever has. Other than that, there's no problem's with Verizon.

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Hotel Breakers Desk staff - 2002
Hotel Breakers FOM - 2003
I wish I could come back for another season...:(

The only thing I can highly suggest, is no matter which company (especially Verizon) you go with, make sure you read your bill very closely each month. They've tried scamming me a few times.

Cellphone companies are evil. Very Evil.

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2004 Power Tower Crew

T-Mobile hardley worked at all, If you are bring a Cell phone...try to get one with Sprint. It works great. All others it seams to fade in and out, and it will work in only certin places....My choice would be go with Sprint
*** This post was edited by Trish The Dish 2/19/2004 6:33:48 PM ***

cool... i was planning on buying one to communicate with people... I was actually worried about this... thanks guys!

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2004: Snake River Falls (First Year)

I'm not sure if this will impact anyones decision, but Cingular Wireless is in the works of buying AT&T Wireless. This will make them the biggest wireless provider and given AT&T's coverage, the service may get better. Or maybe not - just a thought!

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2004 - ATL Mantis
2003 - Mantis
2002 - Mantis
2001 - S.C. Foods Supervisor

Service will proabably remain the same, but prices will stabilize if not increase, because there will be so much less competition.

I use alltel and don't have any problems when I'm down there.

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'04- Mantis

Yeah, I have no intentions of changing from Verizon right now. Great deals, and their always throwing me bonus minutes...which makes it great sense I'm a talker (esp. during the day)

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2004 - ATL Mantis
2003 - Mantis
2002 - Mantis
2001 - S.C. Foods Supervisor

No one is saying much about Nextel, please tell me that works down there, at least a little bit....I just gave up Verizon for Nextel.........hmmm, is there anyone out there with Nextel?????
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Power Tower *2004*
McDonalds 2001 - 2004
"I'm Lovin' It"

I had my nextel down there last summer. It worked fine I thought. Sometimes not very well in my actual room, but no biggy. You'll be able to communicate with it...:)

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2003 ~ Millennium and Dragster Photo
2004 ~ Wicked Twister Crew

Brian...you're a talker? NO, I don't believe it!

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'04- Mantis

Yeah, yeah...very funny!

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2004 - ATL Mantis
2003 - Mantis
2002 - Mantis
2001 - S.C. Foods Supervisor

Yes Brian can talk, espically when he is talkin to me :)

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2004-TL Mean Streak
2003-ATL Mean Streak

Just to get an idea of how my minutes will go this summer, how many peak minutes did everyone use.

Right now, I have 500, and I use all of them just in school, so I can imagine what the summer will be like. But I don't want to buy more if I'm not gonna use it!

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2004 - ATL Mantis
2003 - Mantis
2002 - Mantis
2001 - S.C. Foods Supervisor