My new 680 will be unlocked. I might just check with T-Mobile, though so
far I've not been unhappy (except as noted in this thread) with
Cingular's service.
They didn't switch my plan without notice. What happened was I used
a whole bunch of data one month by not being as careful as I usually
was. My previous plan was for 5Mb data. But when I went over, I also ran
another $65 in data charges.
So I called the nice people at Cingular and asked what could I do to
make sure that didn't happen again. I don't do much web browsing. I do
use IM, in spurts. and my wife (we're on a shared account) loves to text
message and send pi of grandbabies.
And the Cingular person gave me the plan the girl in the store now
says "must have slipped through" -- I've got unlimited data (takes care
of my email and my spouse's MMS habit) and 200 text messages.
But if the New AT&T decides to switch my $19.99 data plan to a
$39,99 data plan, we may be looking at a trip to the T-Mobile store.
I've only a couple months left on my last two-year update, and one of
the good things about buying the 680 from Palm is not having to increase
my term (which I'd have done in a heartbeat if they hadn't been so
difficult about the rebates).
Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:
> Hello, Scandals & Animals.
>
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 9:11:44 -0500 you said:
>
>
>> Hah! Wait til they do you like they did me. They switched me off my $19.95
>> plan without my knowledge or consent and put me on a plan allowing me only
>> 5mb/mo. Imagine my reaction when I got a bill for over $3500 for data!
>> When I demanded to be switched back to the plan I was on, she said she
>> couldn't because that $19.95 unlimited plan didn't exist any more. I
>> planned to cancel my service without paying the cancellation fee because
>> they made a substantial change to my service, but money is tight right now
>> and I can't afford another phone, so it has to wait.
>>
>
> If they truly switched your plan without notice, you probably have a
> case against them. Even if the plan "doesn't exist anymore".
>
> Unlock your phone and take it to T-Mobile.
>
>
--
/The erasure of a human subspecies is largely painless -- to us -- if we
know little enough about it. A dead Chinaman is of little import to us
whose awareness of things Chinese is bounded by an occasional dish of
chow mein. We grieve only for what we know./
A Sand County Almanac, /Aldo Leopold, July 1949/
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