Cell Phones Networks - who do you have?

[greycoral]

Who do you have for a cell phone provider/network and are you satisfied with it? We've had Verizon for probably 10 years and thinking about switching to something else, maybe Alltel. Our contact isn't up until next month, but Verizon's been sending me a letter every other month to upgrade/renew and every Verizon store I've gone into I can't get any good customer service and they either have just a basic phone or one can do just about everything except cook a meal.

Can't help you there, I've also had Verizon for a really long time. My husband, before we started dating, tried several different services (ATT, Sprint, T-mobile, Cingular), and he has said that Verizon's coverage has been the best out of all of them. A lot of the coverage issues I think have to do with where you live in particular though.

Verizon is pretty expensive, but I'm happy. I use my cell as my primary phone, we don't even have a landline, so the cost doesn't bother me all that much. It's $100 for two of us, with a ton of minutes, we never even use half of them.

[Blueberry]

We were with Alltel (which btw is now owned by Verizon) and had terrible service. I got no reception in my office, and couldn't drive 3 miles without dropping a call. Near downtown Raleigh. They were much less than helpful. When we canceled, they required that we pay the bill (even though it was for the next month that we wouldn't use because we canceled), we got a statement with a credit, and they "erased" the credit. It took well over 10 HOURS on the phone with them to get a refund check. Bad business practices in my book.

Verizon has good coverage, and we're fairly happy with them. Once in a while, I think about switching to AT&T.

CA