Has anyone used Cingular Nation on Kauai. Looking at their coverage map you can't tell if the island has service.

freeny...not sure if Cingular Nation and Cingular Wireless are the same, but if they are...our Cingular service worked great on Kauai.

Did you try calling Cingular and asking them?

With all these questions lately on cell service in HI I have a question about cell towers. Do the cell companies have to disguise their cell towers like they do around here? Some of the towers look like giant trees. I understand that calls to the mainland would go via satellite but what about local area calls?

As I posted omn another thread, calling Cingular may not get you the best or even correct answer tothis question. My mother called Cingular to switch to a nation plan before leaving for Maui and was told that her phone wouldn't even work here, so there was no reason for her to change her plan. She was a bit miffed to find that her phone worked just fine here.

Cingular is my carrier. I have been with them since they absorbed my previous carrier. I am on perpetual roaming, but since I have a Nationplan, no worries. They once had service here in Hawai`i, but traded their Hawaiian licenses in a swap with with AT&T a few years ago. They are now in the process of buying AT&T wireless and will soon be back in the Hawaiian marketplace. But until then your phone will work fine; you will be roaming on AT&T or T-Mobile, depending on where you are. They operated on GSM with a TDMA overlay.

Alohaaaa,
We have Cingular and never have had a problem on Kauai except for the usual dead spots in the hills and valleys.