-- I've fired AT&T wireless

[Simply Red]

-piss poor coverage

-dropped calls

-inflated 'BS' charges causing my bill to total well over a hundred per month

-lackluster shipping on a hardware order, which was scheduled to ship out overnight, i've yet to receive my new phone, and it's been a week.

Hello Metro PCS $45.00 for unlimited 'everything'

My question is, What leverage will i have to get out of my current contract? They are a little more forgiving if your service has been shit, right? Anyone prematurely dropped out of a contract, recently?

Thanks ya'll.

[Simply Red]

Originally Posted by Spott

Would it make you hate them more if I told you that it costs them hardly anything to provide cell phone service?

not once the equipment is in the sky, that's true.

[Spott]

Originally Posted by Simply Red

it's beyond me (what has happened) - yrs. ago, they (cingular) were very good in the Atlanta metro.. But lately it's been really, really bad.

Once SBC(aka at&t) took over, they have proceeded to run the company like the gestapo. They could care less about customer service and they treat their employees even worse.

[jd1020]

I dont have any problems with AT&T, they are the best service there is in my neck of the woods. Then again, I have an HTC Aria, I dont have an Iphone. The majority of the AT&T customers have an Iphone... A phone that has a history of dropped calls.

[Stewie]

AT&T has fallen off the cliff. This is in this month's Consumer Reports.

[Spott]

Originally Posted by Simply Red

not once the equipment is in the sky, that's true.

The only part of the call that is in the air is the first mile or so to the nearest cell tower. The other 99% of the call is made over existing fiber/copper cables just like a regular phone call from a landline.

[grandllama]

What took you so long? Fired them two years ago and never looked back.

[Lex Luthor]

If Apple doesn't start allowing other carriers to provide iPhones, the Android phones are going to kill the iPhone in sales.

Of course, that might happen either way. I love my iPhone, but I'm starting to look longingly at the Android.

[irishjayhawk]

Originally Posted by Brainiac

If Apple doesn't start allowing other carriers to provide iPhones, the Android phones are going to kill the iPhone in sales.

Of course, that might happen either way. I love my iPhone, but I'm starting to look longingly at the Android.

I don't think they care. Google gives away their OS. If you give away an OS, it's pretty easy to rack up market share.

[irishjayhawk]

Originally Posted by Stewie

AT&T has fallen off the cliff. This is in this month's Consumer Reports.

I saw this the other day. Who uses US Cellular?

I've never heard of them, in the context of actually being a carrier.

[JD10367]

There's a reason they made this:



My wife and I have AT&T but only because we don't pay for it. Both sets of parents have AT&T plans, so we're both attached to their plans for only $10. So I have a FL cellphone number, she has a NJ cellphone number, and we live in RI.

[irishjayhawk]

Originally Posted by JD10367

There's a reason they made this:



My wife and I have AT&T but only because we don't pay for it. Both sets of parents have AT&T plans, so we're both attached to their plans for only $10. So I have a FL cellphone number, she has a NJ cellphone number, and we live in RI.

I actually straight up asked T-Mobile (our current carrier) if there would be a time I'd be cut off from the family plan due to age. They said nope.

I was like carriers ass rape you every which way to sunday (text and data especially) yet they didn't close this loop hole?

[Spott]

Originally Posted by irishjayhawk

I saw this the other day. Who uses US Cellular?

I've never heard of them, in the context of actually being a carrier.

I've been up to the mountains of TN and NC a few different times on vacation and the major carriers like Verizon and AT&T wouldn't have coverage, but all of the locals there had US Cellular because they the only company that had coverage there. I don't know if they are regional or if they are all over the US.

[luv]

Originally Posted by rockymtnchief

This is just wonerful. AT&T just bought the Alltel service here and I've yet to hear anything good about them. I'm not looking forward to the switch.

Besides a couple of dead spots between here and KC, I've never had any problems with AT&T. Been with them since they were Cingular. Of course, my phone needs are pretty basic and I don't travel much.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by JD10367

There's a reason they made this:



My wife and I have AT&T but only because we don't pay for it. Both sets of parents have AT&T plans, so we're both attached to their plans for only $10. So I have a FL cellphone number, she has a NJ cellphone number, and we live in RI.

Death Star is funnay.

[jd1020]

I personally think AT&T's #'s are flawed. More than half of AT&T's customers own an Iphone, I think the latest study had the Iphone at 53% of the user base, and just looking at that phones history will tell you why so many people are pissed off. I watched my friend call his mother about 30 times one day, in the span of about 15 minutes, just to get a conversation in just because his call kept getting dropped. I've never had one dropped call on my Android phone.