Cingular Breaks Up The Monotany
By Daniel Miessler on September 8th, 2005: Tagged as Rants
The problem with most cell phone carriers is that they’re too predictable. You call someone and they answer. You call them, they answer. On and on like that with no variation.
Cingular has a way of handling that pesky monotany — give different responses.
Just today, for example, I called a buddy of mine and got a busy signal. Turns out he wasn’t on the phone. That’s cool. Other carriers would have put me right through to him. Not Cingular though — they’re breaking new ground.
The next time I called him I got the three tone error message saying that the number didn’t exist anymore. Just for giggles they made it an ALLTEL error. That was creative.
On my third attempt I got through to him. Boring, I know, but it turns out it was ok since I really wanted to talk to him. Oh, and all of these calls took place within like 5 minutes, by the way.
Anyway, it’s good to know that in a sea of followers, Cingular is willing to break out and try something other than the overplayed “call –> answer” model. I’m glad to see innovation is still alive and kicking.