Got a cell phone?
Senior User
Joined: Feb 2004
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From: Toronto, Canada
AT&T here, my only complaint with them is that they wouldn't give me a new phone, or even offer me a new one at a discounted price after my old one died. My monthly bill wasn't enough for them to justify giving me a phone, even though I've been with them for 8 or 9 years. I pay around $15/month for 100 anytime minutes which is fine since my phone isn't used that much.
Tuned
Joined: Aug 2002
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From: Palmyra
Suncom UnPlan. $49 month, flat fee, no time limits/minutes. Use all you want anytime, no charge, and no long distance fees unless calling international. It is usually $59 but after one year they offered me 10/month discount to re-up the account.
Post Fiend
Joined: Oct 2002
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I needed national coverage and so I went with the biggest - Verizon - have not had a complaint - and @ about $65 for two phones and wit about 200 minutes unused each month - works for us !
I don't know if I've ever seen it go on roam in our many trips...
I don't know if I've ever seen it go on roam in our many trips...
Hotshot
Joined: May 2004
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From: The hills of No. Calif.
I have a TracFone pre-pay. One of the nice things about it is that they don't have their own carrier, so they hitchhike onto whichever signal is the strongest so you always get a pretty good signal. US Cellular has the lock on service around here, so it's got the best signal and my TracFone uses that. My brother lives in the Bay Area, and when he comes up here, his Cingular phone can't even get a signal. I don't call much, so I got one of the lower minute but more expensive cards to start with, about .30 a minute. Since my boss and my sister and her husband call me all the time, they eat up my minutes in a hurry, I can't seem to make them understand that it costs me a lot when they call and talk too long. I just bought more minutes, and I got a lot this time, so it brings the cost down to about .11 a minute. All in all, I like TracFone. -TD
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Joined: May 2004
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From: Middlebury, CT
I have AT&T wireless. I've had it for 6 months and im overall happy... then again i get unimited minutes and interent and text messaging for nothing.... oh yeah... forgot to mention, I work for AT&T Wireless. I have excelent converage and clear calls.
I used to have verizon and couldnt stand them. not enough minutes for too much money... poor service around my area. crappy phones that kept breaking every 3 months.
I used to have verizon and couldnt stand them. not enough minutes for too much money... poor service around my area. crappy phones that kept breaking every 3 months.
Elder User
Joined: May 2004
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From: Shreveport, LA
I have AT&T. I WAS happy with them until about a year and a half ago. It seems like customer service is down 100000%.
I like my plan, though..but I'm thinking of canceling it because of all the horrible bill mix ups that I've had.
I have $99 for unlimited calling, to anywhere in the US. SUPPOSEDLY no roaming, but I've got a $500 bill from SD to KY that'll tell ya that's wrong. ugh. I very much dislike the company now. I feel they are very dishonest and willing to do anything un-help a customer.
I like my plan, though..but I'm thinking of canceling it because of all the horrible bill mix ups that I've had.
I have $99 for unlimited calling, to anywhere in the US. SUPPOSEDLY no roaming, but I've got a $500 bill from SD to KY that'll tell ya that's wrong. ugh. I very much dislike the company now. I feel they are very dishonest and willing to do anything un-help a customer.
Junior User
Joined: Apr 2004
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From: maryland - usa
I use t-mobile for my personal cell phone and have allways had great coustomer service experiences with them.
pay $39.00 a month for 1000 minutes and the coverage is pretty fair I do alot of work in the dc underground and can get a signal in places alot of places my co-workers can not but there are areas that I can allways count on dropped calls but then again thats with any phone
I also use nextel for work and it too has good coverage but t-mobile is still where my vote must go it's the ford of service to me and then you got sprint which is more like oh lets say a pacer
pay $39.00 a month for 1000 minutes and the coverage is pretty fair I do alot of work in the dc underground and can get a signal in places alot of places my co-workers can not but there are areas that I can allways count on dropped calls but then again thats with any phone
I also use nextel for work and it too has good coverage but t-mobile is still where my vote must go it's the ford of service to me and then you got sprint which is more like oh lets say a pacer
Senior User
Joined: Aug 2003
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From: Gaithersburg, MD
I've got Sprint PCS...pretty good and I've got their new two way feature on a dropable kickable cell phone. They've got the awesome plan that incrememtally increases depending on your usage each month. Also it's free to talk to other Sprint users no matter what time of day AND my nights and weekends start at 7pm!
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Joined: Mar 2003
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From: Port St. Lucie, FL
Originally Posted by 02PSD4ME
Just switched my wife back to ATT, I'M still with Nextel (last 2+yrs) at first they were fine, but for the last 4-5 months the two way SUCKS, dropping calls bad reception. So next month I'M going back to ATT. Have never had any problems with them.
And ATT is a lot Cheaper!
And ATT is a lot Cheaper!
Reception has been Good, Phone is good, but their billing IS TERRIBLE!
I dumped Nextel in the end of JAN '04 and added an additional line to the ATT service that I already had for my wife for additional $9.99 a month, making it a shared plan. (we share our anytime minutes)
They have not gotten my bill CORRECT ONCE!
After having to call every month and being on the phone for anywhere from 30 min. to 1 hour,
they all have said WE have it corrected now, Yeah right, hasent been right yet, we will see next month. 
And what really chaped my hide is they expect ME to pay the whole bill and than have a credit the next month. Yeah like that will ever happen...
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Joined: Jan 2004
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From: Lubbock or Houston
I have verizon and i pretty much like it most of the time. When tropical storm allison hit houston, most of my freind's cell phones wouldnt work, but mine kept on calling. Get service most places cept when im back in the boonies where nothing works including CBs
Posting Guru
Joined: Jan 2003
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Verizon. 2 phones, g/f and I... Nice phones, good service, customer svce has been excellent, + she gets a discount through work.
All in all, with a generous plan (never had an overage, and she uses hers A LOT), and it's still cheaper than 2 land lines.
I live in upstate NY, bad spots are inevitable, no matter who you're with. Depends more on the phone than the network, but I've found that most other carriers flat out suck in this area.
All in all, with a generous plan (never had an overage, and she uses hers A LOT), and it's still cheaper than 2 land lines.
I live in upstate NY, bad spots are inevitable, no matter who you're with. Depends more on the phone than the network, but I've found that most other carriers flat out suck in this area.
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Joined: Jul 2003
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From: San Antonio
I got US Cellular anytime 700 minutes unlimited nights(after 9 pm-6am) and weekends(start friday at 9pm to monday at 6am ),free long distance, voicemail, two phones,65 cents roaming (got to go out of state). As long as I don't want to change my plan.I hate being told I have to buy a new phone every 6 months(this maybe a little off; It seems true ever time I want to change anything) If I pay the bill and stay away from them it works out pretty good. I pay $75 month.
Hotshot
Joined: Feb 2004
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From: Marengo, Iowa
My phone is US Celluolar, the wife's Alltel, generally perform about the same, when you get away from population, things change, so dead zones are inevitable. Alltel works fine here at the house, but in town, kinda sucks, then mine works fine, but not here at home, tower placement is why. I haven't been hassled to upgrade, and my parents and sister have US Cellular, same phones the same as they started out with. Used to use Verizon Freeup, didn't take long to burn up their cards, especially on roam. Service was pretty good though. Had Cell One a number of years ago, before digital, stayed away because their service plans sucked, weren't even close to competitive, and anything east of South Dakota at the time was roaming.Considering I drove to Eastern Iowa once a month, that wasn't acceptable.
Senior User
Joined: Apr 2004
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From: Paris, TX
Sprint - 2 phones (me and fiancee), 500 anytime shared, unlimited N&W, unlimited pcs-to-pcs calling, unlimited long distance, unlimited on and off network roaming (Nationwide), webmail, caller id, etc... $92/month after taxes.
Great service and they've always treated me right.
Great service and they've always treated me right.
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