Cell Phone Plan

[JimG.]

I understand that... But my billing address???
They can send a friggin bill to it but they can't bill a new phone to it??

Whoa, I guess I misread your post about this. That is very weird because PO boxes are used by many businesses as their billing address.

 

[dmc]

DMC is right. A billing address is only used for authorization of a credit card. The only reason they wouldn't accept that is if their system sucks and they don't allow to have a different shipping address. If that was the case, they should definintely at least have the option to ship USPS or DHL, both of which can go to PO Boxes.

As a sometimes web app developer... I can safely say - I does blow..

The other thing that bugs me is the automated phone thing.. All I want to do is talk to someome.. Not a computer...
They make you give all this info to the automated system - then as soon as you get a person to talk to - they ask for all that stuff again...
It infuriates me...

 

[ALLSKIING]

DMC is right. A billing address is only used for authorization of a credit card. The only reason they wouldn't accept that is if their system sucks and they don't allow to have a different shipping address. If that was the case, they should definintely at least have the option to ship USPS or DHL, both of which can go to PO Boxes.

They make you give all this info to the automated system - then as soon as you get a person to talk to - they ask for all that stuff again...
It infuriates me...

:lol: That makes me laugh..it happens to me all the time makes me freak out.

 

[loafer89]

My wife and I have Verizon and we are both happy with the service and coverage. Even snowmobiling in the woods in Stratton/Rangely I still get good service. We switched over from AT&T which was as reliable as tin cans and string.

My father has AT&T, and half the time that he calls me the signal gets dropped :roll:

 

[dmc]

I've got Cingular, and I've regretted "upgrading" from AT&T every single day so far.

So I had to spend an hour and a half in a mall today to get a new phone...

Is that CrossGate Mall.

yes... I hate malls.. I really do..

 

[smitty77]

I checked Cingular because that's the "family" plan in the house, for my wife and her mother. The coverage is nonexistent where we live, the cingular store a mile away can't even get service!!!! :blink: :roll: :lol:

In other places it work pretty well. Work provides me with a Verizon phone, and I love their service and coverage area. Once the wife's contract is up, I'm switching. I didn't go with them before because (at the time) they didn't have free mobile-mobile. Now that they do, I may be able to ditch the house land line when I change over (Verizon reception is good at the house, go figure.)

Smitty

 

[ctenidae]

Well, after threatening 5 more peons at Cingular, their warehouse has finally admitted, and noted in the system, that they did, in fact, receive the phone ON 4/28!!!. Of course, there aren't any notes indicating the arrangement re the credit that we'd worked out, but haraunging two more people got a commitment that if I fax the reciept they'll take care of it.

I'm not holding my breath.

 

[tree_skier]

There is alot of freedom not having a cell phone. Although my wife has one for emergencies it is now unicell $15 a month includes 15 anytime minutes and 10 cents each additional. I can't remember a bill larger then $18.00

 

[TenPeaks]

I got a sweet corporate deal about 5 years ago through AT&T (now Cingular) for a digital phone for $11 per month. I only use my phone about 5 minutes a month so my bills are never more than $20.

 

[BeanoNYC]

Verizon. It worked for me in Manhattan on 9/11. For that, I will never switch. I've never had problems getting a signal on mountains....while my friends with different service couldn't even get one bar.

 

[skijay]

Verizon. I will never change. After living through Hurricane Charley and having my Verizon phone, the only thing that worked (no landlines or electricity). During the storm I was able to call my friends in Greenfield, MA and get weather updates and tell people where we took refuge. The people up north were able to give us the update on the storm's location. I was also able to send & receive emails on the phone throughout the storm. Full signal, never went down!

Before the storm (Thursday) driving from Longboat Key to Sebring, FL the Verizon service never failed. Thank God, as we were able to find a hotel to evacuate to. The web browser was also a life saver when finding hotels, that two never failed to work.

Oh, I forgot to mention, it was Verizon service all of the time. It never roamed or went into "extended netwrok" mode.

 

[ctenidae]

So, to completely hijack the thread and continue the saga, I tried to use my cell phone this evening. It had been cut off. Apparently, and I don't know why in the six previous hours of conversation this hadn't come up, AT&T Wireless has been charging me for service for April and May, even though we switched on 3/28. The resulting $96 charge, whcih is past due because we never should have been charged, never got a bill, and can't even get AT&T to verify it, caused our service to be cut off about 10 minutes after one of the two people who weren't comletely useless pushed the disconnect date back to make time for the credit to clear.

If the point of this poll was to try to decide which service to go for, I vote 1,000,000% against Cingular.

 

[dmc]

If the point of this poll was to try to decide which service to go for, I vote 1,000,000% against Cingular.

Wow...
I wish I could get someone else other than Cingular to use here at Hunter... But it's the best coverage - so I'm going to continue to put up with the crap so I can talk on the phone..
Thats more important... Coverage...

 

[Stephen]

Nextel. Love the coverage. Hate the price. The walkie talkie for my wife and I were good to start. Now we hardly use it.

Verizon and T-Mobile are the only services I haven't used at this point. Sprint and Cingular kept charging us for calls to each other's phones, even though we had mobile to mobile plans.

-Stephen

 

[riverc0il]

i just dumped my mobile, but i had sprint PCS. great in the city, but if you use your phone in the mountains i would recommend verizon to avoid the roaming fees.

 

[sledhaulingmedic]

I've had verizon since it was Nynex. Great coverage, New England, Utah, California, New Mexico, Georgia, Florida, never a problem. (A few dead spots in low valleys in VT, part of Bear notch rd in NH, that's about it. It costs a little more, but well worth it.

Almost everyone at work has Nextel. Zero coverage in VT. That may change with the merger, once they figure out how to join the networks, but that will likely take a while. I never careed for the woice quality with TDMA anyways.

One of the Ski mags (I forget which one) did a survey last season of different carriers' coverage at ski areas. Verizon was #1. They didn't even list Nextel.

 

[riverc0il]

i think nextels are about the most annoying things going. i can understand their use in a business environment... but when i am standing in line at a store, i don't even want to hear someone talking on a phone let alone an entire conversation with both people. disconnection from society at it's worst and annoying at best.