What cellphone provider are you with?
 

I am just intrested to see what provider people are going with, what type of phone they have, and weather they like what they are getting or not.

Personally I am with Telus, and have an LG6070, and I love the service and my plan which is 175 mins for 19.99

I'm on AT&T. I've been with them for a few years now and I can't say that I like their service, I've just been tied to them because of stupid contracts. I have a Sony Ericsson T616. The phone has a lot of great features but the reception sucks on the phone. I heard that was a problem with the phone itself that was later addressed in newer models of the phone. I'm looking into upgrading but I'm sure that will come with another contract of some sort. :|

I am with Verizon, have been since I've had a cell. I have the LG VX 4400. Normally Verizon has exceptional service, but lately I have been having shit for service, I think it is time for a new phone.

I am using sprint and although a lot of people complain about the service i rarely have a problem with it. Customer service is an entriely different story. The phone I am using is the Sanyo RL-7300. I get a lot of compliments on the phone but the only reason I bought it was because it had a rubber edging and my last phone broke from dropping it one too many times. It doesnt have a camera, which is available on the next model up, but it would have been $20/month to be able to send photos anyway. Overall I give Sprint a 4/5 losing one point for customer service.

Recently changed to AT&T Wireless, and got a Sony Ericsson T637. I love the phone and have no problems at all with AT&T. I would suggest that anyone getting a camera phone get a phone that has Bluetooth so you don't end up paying out the ass to get the pics onto your PC or someone else's PC.

US Cellular for the last 4 years. Never had a problem with them.

at&t for a couple of years now, just upgraded to a color 3360 phone. i think that's the one they gave away free. excellent coverage, decent customer service.

US Cellular, I've got a LG VX4400. I have no complaints to speak of, and will sign another 2 year contract when this one is up.

Verizon Wireless on a Kyocera KX414. No problems so far. Plus since I have their regular home service and long distance, I get $10 a month off their DSL package. Not bad.

-Mikey

I don't currently own a cell phone or have a provider, but if I ever get one, I intend to go with Verizon and a Audiovox CDM9900 (if it's out yet).

There have been a few times in the last month I've considered getting a cellular plan, but then I spread it out over a year and realize I would be spending in excess of $500 a year on it, and that turns me off.

Sprint PCS. For all the complaints you hear about their customer service, I've really never had a problem. I have an LG 5350, which is a piece of crap, and I'm dying to replace it. The day the Treo 650 comes out!

I have sprint and I dont have a problem with them. I revently purchased the Sanyo 8200. it's a cute little phone. Durable too.

I've been with them for 5 years now, and I too could not be happier with them. Unless I can get a RAZR_V3 for a reasonable price, I will stick with them for much longer.

Cingular for a few years, current phone is a Nokia 6340i. Been fairly happy with them although coverage is spotty in a few areas that it should be solid. I've been wondering if all the claims of Verizon having the best coverage are true, but then some people I know said they used to have Verizon and the coverage sucked, so who knows?

Been with Tmobile now for a few years (back when it used to be called Voicestream).
Have been liking it so far. It seems their service gets better each year. And their plans are the best (most for your $).

Verizon for personal use. Can't be beat for coverage and service IMO. Nextel for work. Coverage and service both suck. Two way feature is nice, but lacks coverage, and I'm in and around a big city mostly,( Balto.) but since work pays, work decides.

Treo 600 with Sprint PCS & Vision.. I LOVE it... Would get it again for twice the price... .

Im with cingular and have the sony ericsson t616. its pretty cool i guess, except the camera quality kinda sucks.

Sprint PCS has awsome customer service in my experience, their late fees are very lenient compared to other services. They have pretty good phones though not the more advanced Nokia models. Sprint plans are quite good as well, 7pm nights are very convenient.

had Sprint for about a year and a half (before contracts were cool or something with providers to lock you down) had terrible recpetion all over the city and it just sounded like absolute shit. Got a Nextel i1000 plus and been with them for the last 4 years or so. Currently I have a Motorola i830 and it is pretty cool, small and lightweight too. Reception has been great with Nextel and the 2-way function is where it's at too.

No major complaints other than I had to do a 2 year contract to get the new phone, plus they wanna put you on a new 1 year everytime you want to change your plan.

Im with Cingular...been with them since they bought out who I was with before them...I love them....I've never had a problem with their coverage (unless I've been DEEP in the mountains...and even then Dave who's with Verizon doesnt have a signal either) which is fine because we go to get away from the phones lol I've had my same cell phone number since 1993 so I've had a cell phone for awhile...at the moment I cant for the life of me remember whom cingular bought out at the moment...

The phone I use is a Nokia 3595 with the following features (and my ringtone is the theme to Braveheart WHAT ELSE lol)

I'm with Fido. Apparently Telus and Rogers want to buy it... what cheap people just so that they get less competition, so cheap. Oh well, I can still keep my cell phone plan.

I'm not with any like 2 year contracts... I just buy the phone switch sim cards... right now I'm still with my crappy t68i that barely connects to the network.

the wife and i are both on sprint, and we both use sanyo 4920s. i love the fact that my "home area" is just about anywhere in the country, as i travel quite a bit for work. there are a few places where i receive crappy reception, but i'll blame that on the structures i'm in, not the area. hotels are built like bunkers, so signal dosen't always make it in.

I have Verizon. It seems to work great pretty much everywhere I go, and I travel a lot.

On a side note, does anyone think camera phones are stupid? I went to see Pearl Jam the other week and the whole place was lighted up with people trying to take pictures with thier phones.

Have you guys ever heard of a company called excel www.excel.com of course you havent. they dont advertise. its wierd. a friend was telling me they recruit college students and those students tell others and so on, and the company grows. but the people who get recruted make crazy comissions!!!

I have Verizon and love it. Never a dropped call and I always have service when I travel.

I have several friend that have Sprint PCS and hate it.
I have some other friends that have T Mobile and love it.

I'm on AT&T GSM, but I use the Cingular GSM network whenever I can because it gets a lot better reception and they're now the same company, so I dont get charged for roaming.

I do miss Verizon, though.
DO NOT go through sprint.

Sprunt sucks.

Currently using AT&T Wireless (so Cingluar at times also). It's good. Have heard no complaints regarding Verizon.

Sprunt sucks. ;)

I have tmobile and use their 7100t from RIM. I love that it has bluetooth and I can receive my e-mails on it. It is Quad GSM and GPRS. You can even access your IM clients from there.

Using verizon (since I'm working for them) and have the LG VX-6000 for my wife and I.

I've got Verizon as well, Kyocera KX414 phone. Their coverage is really good, it's worked for me everywhere but the center of Kentucky. If I had a choice though, I'd change to T-Mobile just because it's so popular where I live, that I would get a lot more mobile-to-mobile calls. Verizon's second, and they had the most subscribers overall until Cingular bought AT&T Wireless the other day. The ones that I've heard bad things about have been Cingular and Nextel, for various reasons. I would recommend Verizon or T-Mobile, whichever is most popular in your area.

I'm with Tmobile, pretty good overall. Solid coverage, decent value plan wise. I use the Samsung E715, and I'm very happywith it. It's a shame that Tmobile got rid of free internet, but its only $5 a month for unlimited internet now, which isn't bad.

One note, if your thinking about Verizon know that they limit (actually, ban) downloads from third party sites, so you can't go downloading pictures or ringtones from sites like 3gupload, etc.... and you have to buy them from Verizon instead.

My friends recommend Cingular, and I'm considering a switch to them (for phone reasons, not because I'm unhappy with Tmobile in any way).

ATT screwed me over so I jumped to cingular and now they are the same.

same with me. i turned to ATT to escape cingular and now... cingular found me again

Sprint PCS, for both work and personal phones. Haven't had issues with them much at all. Signal seems to be pretty good too.

How many bars do you have? (att)

Treo 600 with T-Mo. Love the phone and the service is good. The coverage seems to get better all the time.

Had ATT for years. They definitely have the best nationwide coverage. They were not offering the Treo when I was ready to buy one so I tried T-Mo and have been happy with them. They were also able to switch my number over from ATT in like two hours.

(Showing my age: I read cellophane provider and wondered WTF?)

I am with Tmobile, and looking to maybe extend my contract with them. I have had very few probelms with them, and really like them because of their willingness to unlock cell phones for you.

verizon. most people i know have it so i went with it.

Cingular, the rollover minutes were too good to resist. Other than that I have very little good to say about them. We'll see how they turn out now that they bought out At&t

I've got AT&T and am planning to switch to someone else... but i'm not too sure who yet. This thread has been helpful in my search. I called AT&T to find out when my contract ended, and the lady offered me new plans. This didn't suprise me, but I declined. She called back and left messages two or three times after this. Scarry...

I have had US Cellular for as long as I've had a cell phone (Nokia 8265 I believe, recently switched to a LG VX6000), and the coverage in Wisconsin is about the best there is out there. I've never had a problem with dropped calls, poor reception, anything, where as my friends who have Alltel, Cingular, etc. have had numerous problems.

I was using Qwest for a few years (they used the Sprint network), but I've switched to AT&T's GSM service. No roaming and not getting locked into a new contract if I upgrade the phone is awesome. The coverage has been good here in Minnesota, and the plan I got on is very reasonable.

I have Verizon. It seems to work very well in my service area. They sometimes screw up my bill though, but they are usually helpful when I call them. They always straighen it out. I have an LG vx6100, which is a pretty solid phone. Has a lot of features, and it gets good reception.

I recently signed up with Verizon and have no complaints so far.

I went for a hike in a state park, and was able to make a call with no trouble, despite the "bars" showing next, to no, reception.

The bars mean very little overall, but AT&T would have one thinking otherwise. For instance, I'll take 3 solid reliable bars, over full bars on an unreliable provider/phone.

I've had Cingular for about 2 years now, and in New Jersey, their reception is seconded only to Sprint. But Sprint plans are usually more expensive, and Cingular is still just as good.

I'm on a Cingular plan with 600 anytime and 5000 night/weekend for $40 a month

This is a great thread. I'm looking to get a cell phone as well. The irony being that I work at a cell phone game company but I don't own a cell phone.

I have T-Mobile. I have 1000 minutes, free nights, weekends, roaming, long distance for 39.99. Best value I can find. The only drawback is that in very rural areas, it might be hard to get service.

I am an outsider to the cell phone community. I have one, but I rarely use it. So rarely that it didn't make sense for me to get a monthly plan. I was waiting and waiting for someone to come up with a real, working pay-as-you-go plan. A few years ago, all that was being offered was basically month to month contract service at the same price as regular service or higher. They called it pay-as-you-go, but I referred to it as the cell phone plan for those with bad credit.

Fast forward to just over a year ago... Finally, Virgin Mobile offers a plan where you buy a phone, you buy some minutes for that phone and they don't go away from month to month. I bought the Audiovox 8500 which is a tiny little flip style phone. The only requirement to retain service is that you have to buy $20 worth of time every 3 months. The minutes "cost" $.25 for the first 10 minutes in any given day, then $.10 after that. No long distance, roaming, extra charges ever. Like I said, I rarely use the phone. It is just there for occasional convenience and emergencies. I basically pay $80/year for my cell phone package. I like that a lot better than some of my friends who are spending $600/year for their cell phone service. Yeah! Virgin Mobile finally gave me the solution I was wanting.

The service areas are just fine, though admittedly I don't try to use it all that much in outlying areas.

Cingular here. I don't know if it is my phone (came free) or the providor, but my phone doesn't work very well in large buildings (stores, warehouse where I work). Other than that, it sometimes gets a better reception than my cousin's Verizon enabled phone.

im with cingular, on a *cough* Siemens A56 *cough*
the phone is a piece of crap with tape all over it or else if falls in pieces.
the service sucks.

well i'm in Australia and have neva heard of any of those providers... I'm with Telstra and my fone is a Moterola E365... pretty good coverage and i hav no complaints about the fone either.

I work for Sprint, and I have heard of 5pm nights starting sometime. not sure what markets, but it should be an option soon. as for the customer service, yeah its not that great, but I am a data support tech. I like ATT personally. I have a nice plan that gives me everything I need and more and its less then what I can get anywhere else. I have been with them for 4 years. The only thing I would say that I don't like about them is the voice operated customer service answering system they have. Its such a pain in the ass.
If you are just looking for a company thats good at just phone calls then pick verison, if you want customer service you go with Tmobile, if you want the best of the data networks, then go with sprint, if you want the best deal then go with cingular/att cause all your calls to another C/A customer is free and there are like 47million of them.

good luck

I don't have a cellphone but my wife does. I had one with work that was being paid for. It was thru Verizon. I got good reception except for my house. I must live in a Verizon dead zone. My wife has T-mobile and she gets very good reception. I can now live without a cellphone as it gives me time away from people constantly calling me as they do at work. After I leave work, I don't want to have a constant leash on that people can call on me to do things for them. I am not selfish, just don't like to be bothered with nonsense calls that run out my minutes. Oh by the way, I no longer have my work provided cellphone because they were trying to cut back on expenses. Oh well, I still have a free laptop and now will ensure a bigger bonus due in part to the cellphone cutback.

I will quit rambling now.

I have AT&T/Cingular, and I do not get service at home due to a rural anomoly. I live behind a hill and am surrounded by trees... it is upsetting that the tower is far enough away that I cannot get service, however I cannot complain about their service everywhere else as it has been most excellent. I have GSM service, by the way.

I have been thinking about switching to verizon, sprint, or alltel as they have a tower closer to my home that I know receives service inside my house as I've had visitors with their service that get perfect reception in my home. However, I am a bit hesitant as I have a contract with AT&T still and am not sure about coverage with other companies.

verizon, there customer services is rated the best, and my plan is only 49.99 for 400 minutes and unlimited nights and weekends, and i have all in so all verizon calls are free

ATT only because i liked the plan. $35 a month, free long distance, free nights and weekends, 400 day minutes.
i dont use my phone much so it works for me.

what is the point of using your cell phone at hoime when you have a land line phone though?

The girls and I are on Cingular. I have a Samsung something or other flip-phone and they have LG flip-phones. I don't like mine because it's complicated and does 100 things and I only need 3 or 4. The girls' LGs are simpler and better IMO.

I have T-Mobile. Things were really cool with us until last week. I had racked up some overage charges and only paid half the bill which was due November 22nd. On November 29th, I got a suspension notice if I didn't pay the account in full within three days and then I was getting customer service calls everyday until I paid it in full. I'll be leaving them as soon as the contract is up. I could see them flipping out over $300 or if I hadn't made any payment prior, but this harassment crap is just that, crap.

I'm with Cingular in the Washington, D.C. area. I'm not thilled with the coverage area as there are a lot of areas where I drop signal for about 1 block and can't reconnect unless I hang up, and re-call the person I was talking to. I really like that I can roll-over my unused minutes from month to month. Because of that, I haven't ever come close to going over my monthly minutes.

You're such an old man, Art. :lol:

Dixie cup and string.

I'm in Holland. Nokia 3310 and Vodaphone. Buy time cards, no monthly cost.

Phone is great for what it does.

Been using Nextel for about a week now and i cannot see how i did not switch a long time ago. Direct connect is the best thing to come out in the cell phone market sence the hand held phone.

I use Verizon, I love the service as far as being able to get calls or make calls about anywhere, don't like how they cripple the phones.

Cingular. I have been using them for the last 2 years since being screwed over royally by Sprint. I am currently using the Samsung x427m and am very happy with both phone and provider.

I'm with Sprint on a Samsung SPH-A500 phone. Sprint has some pretty good coverage where I'm at, but my phone does some fucked up shit every once in a while. It will say I've got a pretty good signal, but it won't connect when I try to make a call, plus when someone calls me, they'll hear the little ringing sound on their end and eventually get my voice mail, but my phone won't ring at all and won't acknowledge any new voicemails until I restart it.

Verizon has been pretty good to me customer service-wise, but their coverage is still far from perfect (even though it's been quoted to be the most reliable) and they love to get you on $1.25 for 4-1-1 and $.75 per minute of out-of-plan minutes.

I'm with US Cellular, I like their service, but I am looking into a national plan. Only problem is, national with them still has roaming in a lot of areas, anyone have a national plan that they can reccomend?

Verizon, for 3 years. Currently using an LG VX4400. The coverage is very good but you have to watch their billing. We've had numerous mistakes on a multi-phone contract.

Changing plans or features can also be a nightmare. (probably made worse by the shared plan) Every time we've added or changed something on one phone they've updated plans on phones that shouldn't have changed, morphing to a new, less desirable or more expensive set of features. Their shared billing isn't what I'd call elegant. The mistakes can be very tough to unwind without extended escalations through their support structure.

My portion of the contract time is up next month up so I'm just starting to shop for the best Treo option. I will consider Verizon, not because they're stellar but because their coverage is good and none of the other providers I've used were much better.

I'm wth Bell Mobility here.

I'm currently with both T-Mobile and Verizon. I've had serivce with just about every provider tho.

I used to sell voicestream phones in alburquerque and had one of the old nokia ones. I never had a problem with voicestream other than the only area the phone worked was in albuquerque.



I switched to MCIWorldCom when I moved here, that was a mistake. I had free weekend minutes, someone had forgot to put that in the billing (tho it was on my reciept) and I used my phone exclusivly on the weekends for an entire month and got a 900 dollar phone bill. It took them close to 6 months to remove the charge, for 6 months I had to deduct manually what I owed and send only that much in. I didn't have 900 bucks in liquid assets at the time.

Sprint I had for about 5 years. The first 4 years or so were awesome, never had a problem. I started with a motorola star-tac phone. The customer service was always there to help, setting up the auto-pay was quick and painless. Then I upgraded my phone to a samsung N400. I was attracted by the new LCD Screen and a speakerphone. I didn't have to many problems, but on occasion the phone would lock up (wonder if Microsoft programed it).. They ended up replaceing that phone with an A400 or A350 or something. It was a decent phone but not quite what I wanted. Customer service at the store wouldn't let me exchange for any other phone even if I paid the diffrence. When I called them up they said sure we can upgrade your phone, just go down to the store. Then I started having problems with the auto-pay. For some reason their system couldn't pull the money out and they never notified me. instead they shut my phone off and charged me late fee's upon late fee's. after 6 months of "yes it's setup correctly this time and it wont happen again" every month i got tired of it and got out of the contract and went to t-mobile.

t-mobile has been the worst company i've dealt with. I've had my phone for a little over 6 months (motorola V300) I get close to 30 dropps calls a month with it. When I call t-mobile on it they gave me a 10 dollar credit the first time. Every time after that I called they tell me that the dropped call credit is a once per lifetime credit and as such i'm not allowed to have any more credits. Now, had I been asking for credits that might be a big deal, all I wanted was to not have so many dropped calls. I had my phone replaced 3 times, and now they want to charge me 70 bucks to have another refrebished one sent out to see if maybe my phone is damanged. (the phone is brand new) so now I'm riding the rest of the contract out (since they wont release me from it due to horrible CS and an unexceptable amount of droppped calls) until june. I've since switched to verizon.

I've had verizon for a little over a month and love the service so far. no dropped calls. The plan i'm on is a little confusing (I'm used to sprint.. nation-wide no roaming, no long distance) but I got a killer deal on the phone. I have an LG7000 that I got for 50 bucks.

I just dumped AT&T/Cingular for Tmobile. I travel all the time for work and I gained coverage in a few cities where AT&T/CIngular had little or none. Happy with Tmibole so far and you do get more minutes with their plans that you do with most others.

I have Cingular, and I am absolutely thrilled with my service and customer support. As long as I don't run into an ex-AT&T rep I don't have any problems (no offense to those that are ex-AT&T reps) but any negitive cell phone experience I have had was from an AT&T rep.

I'm with Telus. Best provider in Ontario. I just got a LG3200 Pay As You Go plan because I don't want to be stuck in a contract with a student budget.

I finally went with T-mobile and get signal in lots of places...but not at home. Go figure.

Main reason for T-mobile: 3 of my good friends are on T-mobile and I got the unlimited mobile to mobile calling. 3-day weekend plan is pimp too.

Sprint for work and Nextel for personal...

I dumped Sprint which I had for 5 years for Cingular and I'm loving it.. The signal is alot better... It all boils down to what region you are in though.. I live on Long Island and it seems Cingular has the best coverage for the island, but if you go into Manhattan Verizon has better coverage.. The phone I'm using is a Nokia 6230 which is amazing IMO.. You can get it for -$25 from buy.com...

I am on Rogers wireless (GSM) with a Treo 600...

I have the $40 plan that gives me 150 daytime minutes and unlimited weekends and evenings... I'm also on the family plan where my wife and I share these hours over our two phones and have 2500 minutes between our two phones...

I also have a data plan on my phone that gives me 50 MB of transfer plus a pile of text messages...

It is a pretty good plan but I have to say roaming in Europe and Asia can get expensive... thankfully my office pays for that... If they weren't I'd just unlock the phone and buy a local chip...

bell canada and i m going to leave soon rogers has a much better plan

I have t-mobile family plan (4 lines). 1000 whenever minutes, unlimited nights and weekends, unlimited mobile-to-mobile. All of this for $100. The coverage is alright, I expect it to grow since it's a relativelly new company in US. I always wandered, though, why does US have like the worst coverage ever compared to the European companies. Even in Lithuania (that's where I am originally from), which is definitelly not the richest country in the world, you get like 99% coverage. I mean sure the area that they have to cover is much smaller, but then again US can afford to spend way more. I find it odd that a lot of people in the US don't even have cell phones.

Im in Atlanta, GA and have Verizon Wireless... Ive gone all around the southeast and have yet to drop signal. We used to have sprint and had both for awhile (while sprint contract ran out) and it was amazing the places that sprint would drop and verizon would have 4 bars... even though if you look at verizon vs. sprint's coverage maps in South they are very similar. Ive got the Motorola V265.

Cingular. I like the service. It's pretty good with my high-tech cellphone and everything. The phone is great! it has snake!

Verizon here. In network makes me smile

:thumbsup:

I've run through the gamet of companies myself, I started out with MCIWorldorder..uh I mean worldcom.. :crazy: After months of billing issues with them, I switched to sprint for a while, I had a good service with them, but could never got a good plan and never got signal in my house, switched to Verizon V60 and thought that was awsome, but then got a job, and switched to Nextel. Nextel direct connect was awsome,, but the phone service sucked...badly..... Eventually returned to verizon, currently have the Family plan with 1200 shared min peak. nights and weekends. the "IN" pland and Love the service. I get signal almost anywhere.. Although, being in the Fire Department I wish I had a direct connect service. We shall see what the sprint/nextel merger does. If they take the sprint voice and put it with the nextel direct connect that should be a really sweet service. Once this is rolled out, I'll give that a try. With the number portability now, you really can't lose.

I'm using Nextel right now. I have a Blackberry 7510, one of the blue ones with a color screen. I really like it, I used to use it for work and I had a crew of guys with the same device. It was great since we would use direct connect for work. but now I don't know anyone else with a nextel phone that I would direct connect so that feature is kind of worthless for me now. If I had to get a new phone i would probably switch to Verizon since they supposedly have the best coverage in DC. Their phones work underground in the metro, no other provider's do. I think thats an unfair business advantage!

I just switched from Sprint to Cingular and I love it so far. I have an LG 1440 phone. I had a piece of crap LG with Sprint that they wouldn't trade in because they said I hadn't been with them for 18 months....this coming after I'd been with them for 2 years. Also, when I moved from NC to UT and wanted to change my number, I had to sign another year long contract. My sister has nightmare customer service issues with them. I hate Sprint.

edit: three months later and I'm still loving Cingular. Have never had a problem getting a connection, and our plan is so much better than the piece of shit one I had with Sprint.

I'm with Cingular, and I'm really likin' them. Coverage is good, plan is reasonable, etc.

I've got a Nokia 6590i... the one apparently so crappy that whenever I've gone into a phone store looking for a new faceplate (I'm rough with these things...) the associates've never even heard of it. And it's bite-size... However, it both makes and receives calls, I don't really ask for much more.

I'm with T-Mobile and just upgraded from a samsung r225 to a Siemens CF62T flip phone.

My signal isn't bad excpt in my apartment complex area and everyone I talk to has problems regardless of their carrier.

I am disappointed in the fact that T-Mobile wouldn't just add the price to my contract and bill me extra each month, I gladly would have bought a more expensive phone that way. Instead I have to pay $55 and then once I get the phone I get a $20 or $25 mail in rebate.

I was with Verizon before (started pre-pay then joined with wife) and they weren't bad, very few drops but I get a much better coverage area with T-Mobile. My Ex wife had Sprint before we got married and she said it was just horrid. My mother has Alltel and my stepfather has Nextel through his company and neither offer as good a coverage as I have and they seem to get dropped my often than I do.

I started with T-Mobile because of bad credit. It was either them or Cingular from the multi-carrier dealer and even though he said he made more selling Cingular he recommended for my needs T-Mobile. (Needless to say the dealer is no longer in business.) T-Mobile was cheaper, offered more minutes, has a better coverage area, and the phone offered was better quality.

I have read the reviews on here and as far as T-Mobile and credit.... I lost my credit card and had to get a new one, in doing so T-Mobile wasn't able to do the auto bill. They called me about 2 weeks after my bill was due and told me I had exceded my credit and needed to pay. I appologized profusely and paid and had no disruption of service or any other calls or hate mail..... nor any credit bad ratings. If anything T-Mobile has truly helped my credit rating.

Like I said, the biggest problem I have with them is I would have liked a better upgrade and would have even gladly paid more on my monthly bill for one, but they are very cheap on upgrades and for me at least, had me pay immediately.

Overall experiences with cell phone carriers:

T-Mobile = despite the phone upgrade issues, by far the best I or anyone in my family has dealt with.

Verizon = not bad, gave me an extremely cheap phone to start with and with analog service not very clear. Although Free-it-up is a great and the cheapest pay per use out there.... or was when I first started.

Alltel and Nextel = poor coverage areas, good selection of phones but have to have excellent credit to get them and they are expensive.

Sprint = very expensive for my ex., poor buyout rates, bad coverage at that time, and again very cheap with phones and demanding of better credit ratings to accept you.

Just my opinion..... everyone seems to have different experiences with companies and everyone seems to have their preferences.... which is good otherwise we'd all have the same phones and the same service and outrageous bills because there would be no competition.

The funny thing about cell phones and companies.... is #1 Is an ever changing world.... #2 It DOES make a difference weather you get the $20 phone or the $100 phone #3 No matter what company you are will, none of them will be 100% all the time... not yet anyway....

My first company was MCI Worldcom back in 2000, and at the time.. its blew... we all know how that ended..... then was Sprint in 2001-2002 at the time, it was the best out there... with Verizon very close... Never did AT&T ever appeal to me... After I ditched my Sprint I went with Verizon since in 2002 they upped their services big time... I think Spirnt is a decent service currently, but Verizon is still top.. I know now that At&T getting there... but personally, still not a fan... As far as nextel goes.... all they really have going for them was the two way... other than that the cell service is by far the most in need of improvement...

Started with Sprint in early '99 when service was great and had 3 phones from them until they turned massively popular and went to shit and I dumped them in dec '01. Got my next phone from AT&T in jan of '03, and service was awesome up until a few months after cingular took over. After cingular took over, all good things went to hell. Decided to dump them for making my service shitty and got my current service from nextel. Coverage area from nextel leaves room for improvement but I'm happy I'm not roaming in the middle of a strong coverage area like I did after cingular took over AT&T.

My parents have been with verizon, since 1997....a very long time in the world of cell phones ^_^
[My dad got one for his business]

Looks like I'm going to go with them too, getting my first phone tonight !

catcha back on the flipside,
will.

Exactly my phone and situation recently with Verizon. Had this phone 2 years so its about time for a new one.