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I am sorry, but I have to rant.............I HATE VERIZON WIRELESS SO FREAKING MUCH I...I.....ARGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

My bills have gone up over double since I simply increased my calling plan. I know my usage hasn't gone up that much, but my dropped calls have been ridiculous. And since they don't pay for dropped incoming calls, I get screwed LEFT AND RIGHT because MOST OF MY DAMN CALLS ARE INCOMING!!

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ARGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.


serenity now....serenity now.....

Scott,
Just to eaase your mind, MY NEXTEL IS WORSE!

I can guarantee you that T-Mobile is worse for quality. I got so pissed a week ago after the 7th attempt to have a conversation with one of my employees that on the 7th dropped call, I threw the cell phone down breaking the display. After a stream of cuss words, I calmed down, went home, and used a land line.

How lame is that?

Don

I guess it is all in your prespective. I can't wait to dump U.S. Cellular and go with Verizon. Much better service here in the mountains of WNC.

ive been with sprint for about 6 years and have been pretty satisfied.. they now own nextel so it should get even better

I really have grown to hate the two way radio on the Nextel. It is often difficult to understand people, and has no voicemail option.

Many people are also rude in how they use it. I turn my phone off when someone uses the alert function on their first try to beep you.

I signed up for an "unlimited" rate plan 5 years ago, before Verizon bought out my carrier. The contract has automatically renewed annually, and I still pay $49 a month. I burn through over 3,500 minutes in a month during my busy season.

Great coverage, and for me, a great price.

wow, $49 a month for unlimited??? my wife had AT&T and they got bought out by Cingular so her $99 unlimited plan is renewable....but her service sucks big time.

Verizon is probably the best 'round here, but as a company, they are the pits.

I hate cell phones!!!!

I think they are over-rated and unreliable. Sure, they're great for emergencies, but nothing compared to land-lines.

I use a tin can and a looonnng piece of string.

Make that 2 tin cans.

What's a cell phone?

I was with Bell Mobility. Until they changed their invoicing system in 1Q 2004. And got it wrong. It took them over 9 months to restore billing to normal. I would get invoices one month for hundreds of dollars even when I had not used the phone. And I was on automatic credit card billing but invoices still showed outstanding balances. How could that be? But the worse part it took them 9 months to fix the frikkin' problem. And once they did, they determined that I owed them $23 which they failed to charge to my credit card - and after only 1 month, they sic'd a collection agency on me. When I finally said enough is enough and decided to cancel my service, they seemed genuinely surprised that I would leave!

I hate all cell phone companies. But I consider a cell phone to be almost a must have these days. So pick the one you hate least...

It does seem that most of the new cellular technology is going into making the phones do more - PDA, I-Pod, camera, etc. It does not appear that much is going to improve the signal strength or quality. New towers are being added - slowly it seems, but the quality of the signal is still crap.

I think satellite phones may be the ultimate answer once the cost comes down. Having a phone work when there is no power seems like a good idea to me. Perhaps FEMA and others responsible for doing emergency rescue work should also think along those lines.

Frank

I'd guess that the latency in a satellite phone would get old pretty quick.

Mark,

To tell you the truth, I've never used a satellite phone. All I've seen was the price of the unit and the cost per minute. That placed it far from my reach.

Now that you mention it, that is quite a distance for the signal to travel.

Frank

I use a Vodafone 3G model. I guess I am lucky here in Japan. I can even get a signal in many subway tunnels and the B1 and B2 level of most large buildings. If I stay in Japan, my service is relatively cheap at about $80 per month. The problem is that when I travel, it costs as much as $3.00 per minute. My typical bill is $700 per month. (Fortunately for me, I can expense the entire thing!)

wha wha whaaaat?????? $700 a MONTH? holy crap...holy crap.

Jeff/Scott,

$700 a month makes cell service seem a lot better now than it did before Jeff's post. But still, if the cost could come down . . .

Frank