Cell phonesFollow

I use Alltel. They are one of the biggest companies where I live, and most everyone uses them.

It'll probably make a difference depending on where you live. Probably should look at who the majority of your family, friends, and coworkers use, since I think these days almost everyone offers free calls on the same network. And weight that in the comparison.

I've used ATT for years. They have generally good coverage. Their data plans aren't the fastest (both sprint and verizon are generally faster) but they tend to have the newer phones available before most of the other companies.

I've never really had a problem with them. I have had major problems with Verizon.

This.

Yes. But us staters get a discount on most services too. At least in Washington.

The hubby and I were using Sprint and not enjoying it--I would get text message spam in the middle of the ******* night, in Spanish, any time I left my phone on, though admittedly that might have been less the phone company's fault and more the fault of whoever had the number before me. Not being able to set my own tunes as ringtones even though I could put them on the phone to play did bug me, though.

Since he works at T-mobile now, we've switched over to that. The employee phone plan is crazy good (40% off 2 new phones a year, eventually it'll be free, and only $10 a month for each of us with unlimited internet and stuff), I expect it would cost a lot more for non-employees but I'm not sure how much. I <3 my new G1 though.

Normally you can get around this by getting a drm packaging program.

I have one on my notebook. It was free from the phone manufacturer ^.^

People like to rant and rave about Verizon, but I've been using them for years and have never really had any reason to complain.

From my angle, I dealt with them as a supposed partner on our notebooks. I say supposed, because whenever it was an obvious network issue, instead of taking ownership, they'd keep shoving the customer back to us claiming it was hardware, and wanting us to foot the bill for a new card.

Of course, I'd run the diags which we wisely designed to be very accurate, and show them that it was a network authentication issue, which is where our responsibility would end.

I also often dealt with their internet support which did the same damn thing. It led to a lot of cancellation talk from the customer, but no idea if they went through it.

As I said, I'm not in the States, so I can't say I personally have and an issue with them.

But Bell Canada... Oh my word... If you come up here get Rogers.

Hey, my hubby works in customer service.

Hehe, if you post em here I can have him try?

I've been with verizon for some time, I didn't particularly have any issues with them. Work provides me with another phone that is AT&T. The difference I've noticed is reception for AT&T seems to be better in key locations, particularly at home and at work.

Also, I believe the I-phone is only provided by AT&T unless I'm mistaken. If you're partial to that model.

My aunt and uncle that live in town use Verizon and they can't stand it. They get awful reception in their house. They also don't have a landline anymore...

I use US Cellular which is localized to the midwest. It's not bad if you don't ever leave the midwest, but they don't even cover the entire US. When I was at FFXI Fan Fest 07 I realized how much it sucked being roaming the entire time. Not a fan. When my contract is up, I'm going somewhere else, probably AT&T or Sprint.

For now. Verizon is in talks with Apple for a version compatible with their network. It'll probably be another year or so though.