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What cell carrier do you have?

What is your cell phone carrier

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Sprint. I used to have Alltel and I really liked them and the mycircle thing but we had a customer service issue with them and they were incredibly rude and unprofessional when dealing with, so we switched to Sprint then cause I get a discount with them thru work.
 
I used to have a local carrier up here through work. But since I am going to move when my house sells I needed a national carrier that worked up here and where I plan on moving. Sprint is the only national carrier up here, so my hands were tied, but I haven't had any issues yet.

Used to have Verizon back in the day, but they did me wrong, in a bad way, and I will not use them again for cell service.
 
In the area I live in, I really don't have much choice in the matter. US Cellular.
 
WI Crippler said:
I used to have a local carrier up here through work. But since I am going to move when my house sells I needed a national carrier that worked up here and where I plan on moving. Sprint is the only national carrier up here, so my hands were tied, but I haven't had any issues yet.

Used to have Verizon back in the day, but they did me wrong, in a bad way, and I will not use them again for cell service.
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I used to use Verizon then I switched to Sprint but I have to buy my phones full retail since I get a discount through my company as well.
 
I've got T-Mobile and they work great, I've never had an issue with them at all and they're the only one that offers a lot of the services I want, at least when I switched to them about 6 years ago. I've used other carriers in the past and was never really happy with them, they don't seem to care about anything but making a ton of money off of you, screw service.
 
Alltell, but I hate that company with a passion, but it's really the only company around...
 
Verizon, I love their phones but hate their "closed system" anti-third party application rule. These phones could do so much more if we were allowed to use them at their full capability.
 
Verizon has been my mobile phone provider for 10 years now.
 
AT&T since before it was Cingular and was AT&T. Generally happy with my service.
 
Verizon. No complaints so far.
 
Cephus said:
I've got T-Mobile and they work great, I've never had an issue with them at all and they're the only one that offers a lot of the services I want, at least when I switched to them about 6 years ago. I've used other carriers in the past and was never really happy with them, they don't seem to care about anything but making a ton of money off of you, screw service.
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I got t-mobile. No complaiints so far and it has been 6 or so years as well.
 
Cingular in the U.S. - Fido in Canada.
 
I use Verizon because my Sprint phone had spotty coverage in places I needed it most, and my wife's cingular phone had no coverage in places she needed it most. I've never had a problem with verizon until a week ago when all of a sudden the entire area network went on the blink for 5 straight hours on Friday afternoon. That didn't make me too happy.
 
We switched to Verizon this summer. I had had Sprint for 7 years, but their customer service has gone way down since they merged with Nextel and we were starting to have billing issues as well. Wasn't worth the hassle. We get an awesome discount through hubby's work with Verizon and we've had no complaints on the service thus far.
 
Trajan Octavian Titus said:
Verizon users are all traitors who hate this country and want us to lose the war in Iraq.

Ha.
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Why does it seem like the majority of people are alway the traitors to you damn neo-cons!?!

LONG LIVE CINGULAR!....Awww crap nvm I haven't had service in like 40 mins..... HI-TECH-JIHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD. :mrgreen:
 
ToT must not digg

Lachean said:
Verizon, I love their phones but hate their "closed system" anti-third party application rule. These phones could do so much more if we were allowed to use them at their full capability.
Trajan Octavian Titus said:
What does this mean?
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For example, my LG envy has a 2 gigabyte miniSD card with many of my mp3's. The phone is capable of using said mp3's for ringtones, but functions like that are blocked because then no one would pay for them through Verizon's VZNtones store.

Alot of companies ban third party applications for legal reasons, like Sony banning home brewed applications for the Playstation Portible because Nintendo was getting pissed that people were playing copywritten games on their PSP's via emulation.

Another example would be all of the applications people have on their "hacked" iPhones; With such a vibrant user community, they have made Apple's phone far more useful. Earlier Apple followed Sony's lead and banned said hacks, but have since backtracked on their position. Now they're releasing a new API so people can make third party apps legitimately.

Its about control, Verizon gives you none of it, for a good reason; They'd lose money. Nokia however have the n800 that has always been an open system, built on Linux, with a huge user community dedicated to development. Owners of that phone can use it to replace their laptops in most cases.

Either way, the market will resolve these issues. You cant fight liberty, and liberty is good for the American consumer when it comes to cell phones. The music industry payed for ignoring customer's hatred for DRM.

I trust that you've heard that the FCC is auctioning off the old UHF band frequency for billions to major cell phone carriers, because of the stupefying speed possibilities on such a frequency. Well Google pressured them to make it so that no matter who buys it, they have to allow ANY PHONE to use it UNLOCKED for voice/data.

Its going to be like ubiquitous wifi internet, at speeds that make anything we have now look like dial up modems. "Think of the possibilities."
 
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