On 04/05/2014 09:53 AM, Wolf Halton wrote:
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.
What! Because every thing else they do is so well run?
Straightalk for the win. Uses Verizon towers, I think.
http://www.straighttalk.com/wps/portal/home/shop/phones#.U0ATNqbodHZ
I use a google Nexus 4 and unlimted everything for about $45/month.
It may cost you $45 for a phone and some amount for a one month plan to
find out if it does work in your boonies or not. Works in my boonies,
every where I have been.
Wife is with T-mobile (Motorola clam phone from 5 years ago, just
ported it ) and $35 pay as you go plan
Somewhere there is a site that shows cell towers and there is an app
that shows cell towers for droids.
The MetroPCS, Straightalk, and all the other budget cell guys are
busting up the large carrier lockin plans. More and more people are buy
phones at real costs and just buying pay as you go plans.
If your services is GOOD, then why do I need a contract? Treat me well,
I will stay. Right now, the budget carriers are being very disruptive.
HTH
On Apr 5, 2014 9:35 AM, "Charles Shapiro" <[email protected]
<mailto:[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] <mailto:[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
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