Who is your cell phone carrier?

[Flash Gordon]

Hey friends,

I am in the market for a new cell phone. I love my service with Verizon. I get great reception, I always have a signal, and I never get "busy" signals when I try to call out. However, their prices for phones are just too high. I was thinking of switching to T-Mobile.

So who is your carrier and do you like them?

See ya.
FG

[Cota]

I had nextel, then sued them.....they suck horribly...I currently have verizon, had it for 2 years now...only complaint is the cost of those damn phones. My sister has T-Mobile and hates them worse than nextel...

[Flash Gordon]

I had nextel, then sued themHa! Why did you sue them?

[Cota]

First, they tripled billed me, then my contract was up and went to a different carrier, they tried to hit me with an early termination fee...So I was fighting them, they sent a negative report to my credit report, and I sued....the law agreed with me, I didnt owe them jack...and they had to clear my report...

[stealthelephant]

I had nextel, then sued them.....they suck horribly...I currently have verizon, had it for 2 years now...only complaint is the cost of those damn phones. My sister has T-Mobile and hates them worse than nextel...

i lived in nyc for 3 years and had verizon i think, i canceled my contract with them after around 3 months cos they had me making phone calls to people in Cali ~ even when i didnt know hardly anyone in the country. then they were on the news for doing this to loads of people :|

[Cota]

Thats what nextel was doing me.....I'm not saying verizon is perfect, but a better experience than nextel.

[Headshotz]

Ha! Why did you sue them?


Well, where cota comes from you could have probably sued them for anything that wasnt the slightest bit normal ;) ;)

[BadBadNeil]

Cingular here. Decent for me reception wise everywhere except for in my basement of my house for some strange reason. I think my house is being blocked by something.

Anyways, I have heard good and bad things about every carrier including Verizon, Powertel, Cingular, AT&T, Sprint, Nextel, etc. It really depends on where you are for which carrier will give you the best reception.

[CyanBlue]

Geez... You guys are rich... How can you afford the cellular phone??? :eek:

[sfhazel]

I have Satan. *cough* errr...Cingular. I spent 3-4 hours arguing with them on the phone last month. They charged me 220 bucks for roaming charges that all occured in the state I live in (I have coverage of most of the southwest US). The guy finally took the charges off my phone, but I just got my bill this month, and the charges have magically re-appeared.

Cell phones have a method of customer service that comes in different waves:

1) The first wave is the person you get when you call them after waiting on hold for a while. This person will not be able to help you. They are the first of many who can't.

2) You get transfered to the next person, who's english is not very good. This person is there to get your frustrated and confused. They want to tire you out by having you repeat yourself many times. Obviously, this person cannot help you.

3) You get transfered to Pakistan. This is the testing of your patience, but you must endure this pain. Communication is nearly impossible at this juncture, and whatever you do... don't let them hang up on you.

Rinse and repeat the previous steps any number of times until:

4) This time you get transfered to a very friendly representative. They are very chipper and understanding of your frustrations. They offer to help you in exchange for your continued service. At this point it is VITAL that you do not enter into another contract. This person is a con, who uses their cunning friendliness to lure you into their deathtrap of trumped up charges that will suck the blood from your carcass. I say carcass, because at this point you're a dead man talking.

[Headshotz]

Geez... You guys are rich... How can you afford the cellular phone??? :eek:

lol, I paid $68 for a prepaid one. Id rather a landline, I hate phone bills,
infact, I would rather avoid them all together if I didnt move round abit ;)

[Cota]

I pay way too much for mine...I dont have a land line....maybe I should get one.

[Headshotz]

I havent turned my phone on for weeks, no one calls me, Im so ronery. :p

Actually I never give my cell number.

[sfhazel]

Maybe we should all pitch in and get a family plan together.

[Headshotz]

Just one big AS.org family with thousands of children.

[sfhazel]

If our community gets big enough, we could do away with phones and communicate the old fashioned way -- passing notes person to person. How's that for teal-time text messaging?

[Headshotz]

Or make a massive forum and call it actionscript.org ;)

[sfhazel]

So if we post on ultrashock, do we get charged for roaming?

[Cota]

So if we post on ultrashock, do we get charged for roaming?
I dont know why but that had me rolling....great line...

[stealthelephant]

I pay way too much for mine...I dont have a land line....maybe I should get one.

www.skype.com

you can buy a number of them and run it through your cable or dsl :)

only costs 2c a min for worldwide calls and u around 120 a year, u can buy special hardware the hooks up to your computer and all that broadcasts the signal to a special phone so it looks like the real thing :)

is also free to call other skype accounts

[Cota]

Yeah, I was looking into Vonage...I use a cable modem, and my provider has it also, but they charge way too much for it...

[stealthelephant]

www.skype.com

you can buy a number of them and run it through your cable or dsl :)

only costs 2c a min for worldwide calls and u around 120 a year, u can buy special hardware the hooks up to your computer and all that broadcasts the signal to a special phone so it looks like the real thing :)

is also free to call other skype accounts

its also free to set up :)

[Headshotz]

Thats what I am getting, similar to that but a bit different, its so much
cheaper, problem is if I hit any download caps :(

[stealthelephant]

Thats what I am getting, similar to that but a bit different, its so much
cheaper, problem is if I hit any download caps :(

now i have a work phone, O2 carrier, its nice having a free phone - but i never call anyone on it anyway :|

[Headshotz]

Call me Im lonely :p

Just kidding I have 2 friends numbers, one was already built in when
I bought the phone, and the other was a random number I dialed.

[stealthelephant]

Call me Im lonely :p

Just kidding I have 2 friends numbers, one was already built in when
I bought the phone, and the other was a random number I dialed.

lol, do they cost 2.50 a minute to call?

[Headshotz]

$9.65

They sound like voice machines, but I know they are real, because they speak to me.

[Flash Gordon]

I justed switch to nTelos. They are a little cheaper than Verizon and have better deals on phone. My reception isn't as clear, but that could be a result of the new phone: Nokia.

[Cota]

I think I'm about to go to Verizon and beat the snot out of some people there...screwing up my bill on a regular basis lately.

[Flash Gordon]

I think they have the most complaint, but I never had 1 problem with them.

[Cota]

Then you got lucky..

[Headshotz]

Happy happy,

I like those widgets for dashboard in OSX, one lets you send text messages to any mobile in the US for free. Yay, cota give me your number and I will text you every time I make a post :p.

[Flash Gordon]

Happy happy,

I like those widgets for dashboard in OSX, one lets you send text messages to any mobile in the US for free. Yay, cota give me your number and I will text you every time I make a post :p.

HA!

[Headshotz]

Problem is it is only US and antarctican carriers, so I cant spam everyone.

Nothing to do with anything, but Flash whats your number? :p

[Flash Gordon]

+1-773-Old-newbie

[Headshotz]

Hahaha, Sucker! Prepare for ultimate sms spam :p :p

[Flash Gordon]

watch out. I got Nmap on my cell phone!

[Headshotz]

Haha, it wont work because I dont even know what that is!

[Flash Gordon]

It is a port scanner. Trinity used it in the Matrix (2 maybe) to break into the "main frame" and disable the power

[Headshotz]

Well mr port scanner, Im now sending 10 sms's per post.

For some reason oldnewbie keeps pming me :mad: faces.

[Flash Gordon]

For some reason oldnewbie keeps pming me :mad: faces.

HA! are you serious?

[Headshotz]

:p

If your serious thats oldnewbies number, then yes.

[afletch]

I have t-mobile for my Treo 650 and I'm happy with their service.

[Headshotz]

Vote 1 for landlines

[tg]

Vote 1 for landlines

hah. thats what i got.

[Headshotz]

I think I have a crappy old 3315 nokia buried in my cupboard, with optus prepaid, never use it. Landline is the way of the future ;)

[outlando]

They've recently enabled landlines to receive SMS in the UK. Got that anywhere else?

[Headshotz]

Yeah, I think Telstra has a service like that.

I wouldnt mind a new blackberry, you can send emails and blarg on those things so that would be useful when away from home.