I wish the feds would just nationalize the whole system. These companies do so poorly, if you imagine the goal to be customer connectivity. It would save the NSA a lot of money, too. On Apr 5, 2014 9:35 AM, "Charles Shapiro" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Verizon hates you and wishes you harm. > > I'm about to enter the bloody fray for a smartphone, but of course I want > to put my own build on it. I'm seriously considering switching to > T-Mobile, just because I think their attitudes toward My Kind might be a > little less hostile. Verizon appears to believe that they own your phone > and its contents. They have a history of acting on that belief. > > -- CHS > > > On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 6:43 AM, William Bagwell <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Saturday 05 April 2014, Ron Frazier (TECHC) wrote: >> > We leave and go to Walmart. We talk to them about prepaid Verizon >> phones. >> > They have two more phones to show us, as it turns out. We buy one (for >> > only $38), without assigning it a phone number, as far as I know. >> > However, the cash register did say something about activating when they >> > scanned the bar code. I don't know what that did. >> >> As much as I hate Walmart, this was my first stop last time I needed a >> phone. >> Grandfathered in to an old Cingular plan and blessed to have a chip that >> has >> survived three phones so far. Four if count the one I borrowed for a few >> days... >> >> Walk in with chip in a plastic bag and ask for an AT&T phone that uses it, >> pay money and leave before they can sell me something else:) >> -- >> William >> _______________________________________________ >> tech-chat mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.linuxmoose.com/mailman/listinfo/tech-chat >> > > > _______________________________________________ > tech-chat mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxmoose.com/mailman/listinfo/tech-chat > >
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