I also have the friends and family plan maxed at 5 phones on my AT&T account. I like the rollover plan, as I usually burn just under 1,000 minutes per month on a 2,100 minute plan. I rack up rollover minutes, and use them when I stay in SoCal helping my parents (father is quite ill) for up to 3 months at a crack. That eats into the rollover minutes, but at least no huge overage bills come in to me. Also, with Cingular and AT&T merging technologies I get the same lower frequency signal I used to get with Nextel (only) that does a better job at penetrating buildings.
SET RANT ON I am so glad to be away from Nextel/Sprint. They tried to hose me 2 times. In one case I had an email from a sales rep stating an unlimited plan for $100/month (I was paying $200) just to keep me from leaving. They ended up switching me to a 1,300 minute plan (I think 1,300) for $100 instead. I called and was told tough rocks, no record of the $100 for unlimited, that there notes clearly state I had called and changed to the 1,300 minute plan. I asked for a manager, asked for his email address, then sent the email stating the unlimited plan. "Oh, I see", was the reply. They ended up honoring the offer, but the one manager did say that without the email I had on file I would have been stuck on the 1,300 plan for 2 years. Weasels, nice try... When I did make the move to AT&T (wife wanted iPhone) I was outside of my Nextel contract. I called to ask when I could port my numbers to AT&T, and what costs I would have re: partial month fees. I was within 2 days of ending my billing cycle, so a full month of billing for 28 out of 31 days of use. No problem. Turns out the numbers ported quickly, within 20 minutes. But the next bill included a charge for the following full month, because the account was clipped and posted the day after the billing cycle ended, not the day I clipped it. I refused to pay the last unused month of billing, and was threatened with collection action, credit report hit, etc. My credit score is so high a small blip like that would not hurt me, but I was not going to let these jerks get away with that. I ended up sending a letter to the new CEO, via overnight delivery. I got a call within 3 days advising, "We heard every word in your letter. We have rescinded the billing." So they again made it right, but 2 times gave me grief needlessly. SET RANT OFF Okay, rant over... Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:profoxtech- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell > Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:51 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NF] New Phone recomendations > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Kevin > Cully<[email protected]> wrote: > > I've never had an "advanced" phone but I'm really tempted by the > Android G1. > ------------------- > > If I had that available under AT&T I would go that route but it is not > available. > > I have the friends and family plan and I have the max 5 phones under > the system. My rollover min is good for when the kids travel away > from their wife / gf because they have to talk and talk all frigin > week when separated! ;-> I have seen 900 min whacked one month. > > > -- > Stephen Russell > Sr. Production Systems Programmer > SQL Server DBA > Web and Winform Development > Independent Contractor > Memphis TN > > 901.246-0159 > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
