What's your cellphone provider?
 

And more importantly, how is the coverage. Are you satisfied? I need a mobile phone in the US. Looking for a decent provider.

Seb. :glugglug

I have ATT and I am happy. No cell service is perfec.

Cingular. It's really good, it works pretty much anywhere I go, and I can call anywhere in Hawaii, Alaska and the Continental US with no roaming or long distance charges. But I think that's starting to be the norm for most providers. :2 cents:

I know, even in The Netherlands as small as it is, there is no 100% coverage. I'm just looking for a decent provider which isn't all to pricy. I'll probably go for the one who gets the most votes or the best recommendation. Thanks!

Orange

Verizon Wireless. They suck monkey nuts. I pay 50 bucks a month for 300 minutes, the same cost now covers 700 minutes in thier new plan but gasp, they say I have to pay them 100 bucks to change my plan.

I think I am going to go for the $99 unlimited plan from sprint, it seems like a much better deal. I pay 100 bucks a month now anyway.

:BangBang: Verizon Wireless. They suck monkey nuts. I pay 50 bucks a month for 300 minutes, the same cost now covers 700 minutes in thier new plan but gasp, they say I have to pay them 100 bucks to change my plan.

I think I am going to go for the $99 unlimited plan from sprint, it seems like a much better deal. I pay 100 bucks a month now anyway.

im stuck with sprint for two years :BangBang:

they suck

i have sprint-2 yrs

just got'em about 4 months ago. so far, havent had any problems.

coverage is good, got a good plan and a free cam phone with it, has interent, free roaming, 500 day mins, unlim. night/weekend mins, free Cell-to-Cell calls (with anyone who has a sprint, so i get to talk to my family and 90% of my friends for free.) all for $50! cant beat it! :thumbsup

Sprint. I was paying $107 (after taxes) but when they passed the law that you can move carriers and take you're # with you i had some bargaining power to work with. Called them to say i would not be sticking around if they didn't match what company X is now offering. Long story short, i got the bill reduced to $55 a month (after taxes).
Everyone keep in mind they can't hold you hostage anymore (unless you are still under contract) since most often customers stay with who they have for the conveinience of not having to change phone #'s.

AT&T for the last 7 years :thumbsup

*bump*

Is T-Mobile any good in the US? I'm currently using them in Holland and their prices look reasonable. I want to pay as less as possible, because I don't call much really.

Verizon...They are ok with me:thumbsup

Now they even have an international plan:thumbsup

Rogers/AT&T
WG

I have Sprint and have terrible service. They also changed my free nationwide long distance plan to a 15 cent /minute plan which sucks because I needed that. Switching to cingular.

FIDO!:thumbsup

If you don't use it that much and or it's a temp thing in the US then try this one out

http://www.attwireless.com/personal/prepaid/

You can pick up the phone cheap in groceries and dept stores, and with some phones, you can call them and they will set it up to use the phone you have.

They have all sorts of options as well.

have tried most of them and Verizon is the best i have use so far. worst was sprint

I got Nextel, its a little more expensive but it works up here in the mountains :thumbsup It costs an arm and a leg though :(

nextel, walkie talkie rulz.

got sprint as well

Phone: RL 7300

http://csb.sprint.com/servlet/Catalo...duct=770010296

phone is good, service is pretty bad though :-/

I'm not looking for a prepaid phone. I hate it when you're suddenly out of money. :)

It's not a temporary thing either. I'm moving to the US and doing some research.

Seb... this plan allows you to recharge the phone from the cell OR a landline OR online (as well as you can buy prepaid cards to punch in) from anywhere. ;-) I've used it for over a year and never had a bit of trouble. It pops your time-minutes up each time you turn it on etc so you aren't caught short etc.

Takes about 2 mins to recharge via the phone and about 1 minute if you do it online.

We weighed the time it would need to be used versus a contract and a set amount per month and this one won hands down. At least read in to the site and compare it to the contract costs etc. If you don't use it that often, then its the better deal by far. :thumbsup

You might be thinking of those rinky throwaways I have seen.

I use prepaid.

you dont "run out of minutes"

you can set up billing options to do very different things. I have mine set to renew when you run out of minutes.

I dont use my phone like most people but its a good plan.

[prepaid just means prepaid, i like paying things in advance therefore I dont owe anyone anything. Free weekends, free nights after 8 pm, kick ass so far.

no contract, no fees - its the only way for me.

http://www.attwireless.com/personal/gophone/index.jhtml
http://www.attwireless.com/gophone/rates.html

MOTIV :)

i use alltel, they are great.

You know it Fletch! Why get locked in when prices continue to fall too. :) They want outrageous buyout costs etc to get out of a deal. I was talking to the old man last fall and was short on minutes... I checked the time left on it, told him and 30 secs later got the time added to the phone from his doing it online. ;-)

We don't go the auto refill tho. Too many places abuse that still.

Thanks for clearing this up Gemini and Fletch. I guess you're already a bit ahead of us on this one. Here you charge a prepaid by a card you buy in the store. Not very efficient.

I actually might try the prepaid thing first. It's not like I'm gonna have a huge amount of friends I have to call every day when I just move in.

Cheers.. :glugglug

I was not convinced either, didnt want to fool with cards, and a contract.

Me and my girl were in a store and just picked one of these up. Got home, called the number, and had a phone number in minutes, and havent paid anything yet. the first month is free, and I got like 600 bonus minutes, wont even be billed for 30 days.

As I mentioned, Im not one of those people on their cellphone all day, but like to have one, these rule.

small, cheap, effecient. works for me, now I am convinced.

http://www.attwireless.com/media/360..._360spin.jhtml

billing options are cool too, you can set it up to recur one the same day every month, you cxan have it recur when you *run out of minutes* all kinds of ways, very flexible. No cards or hassles, buy time online or with text messages too. internet, mail, messaging, everything ;)

Only T Mobile seams to work perfectly on both sides on the Atlantic.

Most of the plans offer the store cards as well... I carried one for the first few months until we could test the online and straight call in with cc methods payments. I generally don't carry a cc or dc, so having a way to get minutes added right away if I needed them was our biggest worry. Then we found out that I could call 911 even if I *were* out of minutes. lol (supposedly)

The kind of plan you guys seem to still have (prepay cards only) didn't go over very well so they rushed the online and other pay methods out.

Sounds like Fletchs plan more follows the regular contract idea on minutes, where mine is just X amount of minutes per dollar (Getting cheaper minutes as you prepay higher amounts)

But they just came out with some new plans that we are going to look in to soon. All I have to do to change is call and change the service. We also get to keep the same numbers even if changing providers now too.

got nextel here pay 150/month for unlimited no roaming and just so you guys know dont ever go to mexico and dont tell your gf or wife that you went when you got a nextel all the msg's that come up like "please wait while the nextel customer is located" is said in spanish haha just a heads up

T-Mobile :thumbsup