POLL: Your Cellphone Provider/ How Much $$ U Pay/ Happiness Scale?

cheesybanana · Aug 24, 2008

baggss said:
It was a 5 year exclusive deal with AT&T and they are almost 2 years into it.

Trust me, at this point Verizon wishes that they had gone with Apple. Heck Steve went to Verizon FIRST and their CEO turned him down flat.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/30/verizon_turned_down_iphone/

It may not go the whole 5 years. There is talk of them ending it early.

Of course, this is just speculation. I'm fine with ATT. Verizon certainly isn't much better.

Eric559 · Aug 24, 2008

cheesybanana said:
It may not go the whole 5 years. There is talk of them ending it early.

Didn't they just extend it recently around the time 3G was released?

http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/01/atandt-iphone-exclusivity-extended-to-2010/

baggss · Aug 24, 2008

cheesybanana said:
Verizon certainly isn't much better.

Actually I found Verizons service to be quite excellent from Hawaii to Virginia, Maine to San Diego and pretty much everywhere in between. I can't say the same about AT&T.

rockworthy · Aug 24, 2008

baggss said:
Actually I found Verizons service to be quite excellent from Hawaii to Virginia, Maine to San Diego and pretty much everywhere in between. I can't say the same about AT&T.

Same here. I'll never use AT&T not only because Verizon out performs them IMO but AT&T also tried to screw me on my billing and I through a fit about eight years ago and threatened to report them and they begrudgingly adjusted my bill and let me out of my contract.

PapaNoHair · Aug 24, 2008

cheesybanana said:
It may not go the whole 5 years. There is talk of them ending it early.

Of course, this is just speculation. I'm fine with ATT. Verizon certainly isn't much better.

I can't imagine with both of them making money hand over fist, either one of them actually wanting to end the exclusive they have.

milessthomas · Aug 24, 2008

We've got a cingular/at&t family plan. We pay 141$ a month for 3 lines, 1400 minutes and unlimited texts on all.

The service doesn't work at all where we live, we moved from Atlanta, GA to Outer Banks, NC and the service was great in Atlanta, but we get 0 bars pretty much everywhere but right on the beach here. At&t refuses to let us out of our contract, we've been asking for 6 months and have 5 months left. So we continue to use the service but it doesn't work, anywhere, and... I'm just going to say At&t is a service & contract nightmare. I'm not paying the 200 something dollar fee per line to cut our contract.

I rate my service at a negative 10000000

:Add:
Oh and Verizon is fantastic, I have a verizon work phone (unfortunately can't make personal calls on) that gets full bars almost everywhere, (including a mile out in the atlantic on my boat)

cuhnool · Aug 24, 2008

I have a T-Mobile Sidekick, and it's added on to the family plan is about $80. And I get unlimited text, unlimited data (email, web browsing, instant messaging), and MyFaves. And unlimited weekend minutes and free talking after 9:00 PM (i think so)

All in all, it's an awesome plan. I usually do about 200 texts per day, and am on the web browser all the time. I also use the AIM app quite a lot, more than i do on the computer. Actually, I'm talking to one of my friends on my phone via AIM

10/10 happiness.

cuhnool · Aug 24, 2008

imnothardcore said:
everyone i know with a sidekick, its cool for like a couple months and then it starts to suck and fall apart.

they just start to look nasty and bad really quickly

not really, I have had mine since November, and it's quite durable. I have dropped it pretty close to about 100 times, and it's still intact. it doesnt look nasty nor bad. I still like it, and a lot of people like it.

PapaNoHair · Aug 24, 2008

milessthomas said:
We've got a cingular/at&t family plan. We pay 141$ a month for 3 lines, 1400 minutes and unlimited texts on all.

The service doesn't work at all where we live, we moved from Atlanta, GA to Outer Banks, NC and the service was great in Atlanta, but we get 0 bars pretty much everywhere but right on the beach here. At&t refuses to let us out of our contract, we've been asking for 6 months and have 5 months left. So we continue to use the service but it doesn't work, anywhere, and... I'm just going to say At&t is a service & contract nightmare. I'm not paying the 200 something dollar fee per line to cut our contract.

I rate my service at a negative 10000000

:Add:
Oh and Verizon is fantastic, I have a verizon work phone (unfortunately can't make personal calls on) that gets full bars almost everywhere, (including a mile out in the atlantic on my boat)

I am not a math major but wouldn't paying off the account be less then paying $140XX times 11 as versus $200 times 3??