Cell Phone Service, who do you have?

[SirNik73]

OK,
I'm in college, I've moved 5 times in the last 3 years! I'm never in one location, so a cell phone is a requirement. I live in Sacramento, but my family lives in Lake County, pretty much the middle of no where, so I need a company that will not just cover the city, but also the way out in the sticks. I was a very happy customer of AT&T Wireless, but then Cingular bought them out, and I was a very dissatisfied customer of cingular. so I dropped that for Verizon, because they had coverage in my home town, and they had free nation wide calling, and I've been traveling more... nation wide calling is now standard, and I'm getting more and more dissatisfied with verizon as the days go by. What else is out there? What are you guys using?

[Brock Samson]

im on t-mobile no problems at all...   

[MorePwr]

I'm with sprint, happily. but I hear t-mobile is real good too!

verizon used to be airtouch they changed names, but not customer service

[694spdRT]

I have ALLTEL because the big boys don't cover my area. Apparently the "Can you hear me now?" guys conveniently sidestep SW Wisconsin.

[SirNik73]

AllTel was the most appealing to me, so i checked out their site, but they don't have coverage in California... their map said they did, but when i went to the "pick a plan" section they asked for my zip code, and then told me they did offer service in my area. I tried my home town zip first, and then the zip for downtown Sacramento.. same answer... so no alltel.
T-mobile covers Sacramento, but only covers my home town in roam. but a friend i grew up with told me they gave her free roaming... so that might solve that problem. i have to look into it more, they didn't say anything about roaming in their plans, but they did say my home town was in the roam area.

[Shakey]

Rogers

[SirNik73]

Rogers

checked this out just for kicks, to see if the US companys are the only ones ripping off their customers, and Rodgers seems to be a better service then some of the companys i've seen here in the US... to bad i can't get that service.

[Mopar440+6]

I was also one of the "loved AT&T but got skrewed by Cingular" guys. So as soon as the contract was up I switched to Nextel. I've had Nextel since mid-2004 and I love it. There are alot of people that hate Nextel and say they don't have service anywhere but I can only think of a few times that I haven't had service...

[TruckDriver]

US Cellular, no problems

[SirNik73]

yeah i have a friend with sprint/nextel, and he has won every disagreement he has had with sprint. but as i feared, hey don't service my home town. i'm about ready to forget about having service up there, but if i'm going to pay for the service, then it should work there... i don't understand why some companys work there and others don't. i thought when you were roaming you were out of ther area covered buy your company and using another companys towers... with that theory should all services work up there... just in roam?


US Cellular was the first one to cover my home town... haven't realy heard much about them in years, i'll have to look into that one.

[2fast4u]

  Unicell

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Verizon for me.......here in NYC its the best over all other carriers IMHO

[NHCharger]

I've had Nextel for 6 years. Currently their service sucks ass. They haven't done any upgrades or added towers since they were bought by Sprint. They can't figure out how to merge the two systems together so their solution is to design a phone with both frequencies in it. Of course it costs twice as much. If there's no improvement once my contract is up I'm dumping them. And they have the highest rates.

[skip68]

I've got Nextel and it's not bad.  Sacramento has some bad spots and up hear above folsom it goes in and out

[ChargerRob]

T-Mobile 

[71charger_fan]

Mobinil, we don't have the plethora of choices in Egypt. It's either Mobilnil or Vodafone. Service is spotty. Count your blessings you have multiple choices. Back in the U.S. I still have a Verizon account; it was cheaper to just keep it than to buy my way out of my commitment.

[andy74]

sprint here, when i first started with them i lived in florda where they are the major player,since i moved to new york the service has gotten better-i have the no roaming charge plan,and 1000 minutes a month,free night weekend and nation wide long distance,costs me about 125 a month,with 2 phones,couldnt live with out it as i use it a lot for work and give all my customers the number

[Silver R/T]

Sprint

[Steve P.]

Verizon here. I have never had a dropped call and even when I'm in Vegas I have zero problems. 

VegasMike has Sprint. They are the MAJOR player out there and his phone service sucks.. Dropped calls all the damn time.

[chargerboy69]

Nextel. . . I have had them for 5 years. I do not have any problems with them at all. I get 1200 minutes and 2 phones for $79.00 a month. That works for me.

[squeakfinder]

Cingular here in northern Oregon and it sucks. As soon as the contracts up I'm changing. Can't hardly talk on it while inside a building.

[Mean 318]

I have had bad luck with Verizon!

[Arigmaster]

Funny... Thats what I do for a living. I build networks for all of them but use US Cellular as my service provider. They have the most complete network and best roaming agreements.

Lots of company mergers going on in the industry (pooling resources) but all that means is more work for me! Eventually it will come down to the equipment technologies each carrier uses as to who will come out on top.

[Charger Aficionado]

Sprint and they SUCK. 

[greenpigs]

Cingular here in northern Oregon and it sucks. As soon as the contracts up I'm changing. Can't hardly talk on it while inside a building.

Thats my plan also.