Posted: 5/20/2013 9:29:51 AM EDT
Verizon is the most expensive ,but the best. I could not believe how lame T mobile was until I switched from Verizon to T mobile for a week . I went running back to Verizon .
OATS THAT HAVE BEEN THROUGH THE HORSE ARE ALWAYS CHEAPER THEN OATS THAT HAVEN'T . |
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I use sprint, it has always worked well for me. Doesn't for me. Freakin 5th largest city in the US and no 4G, but I got 4G when I sent to 6 flags near San Fran during a weekend while out that way on business.  In any case, even voice and tower connection sucks in the west valley. There are several points where my phone just says fuck it and switches over to a roaming tower just so I can get a signal for calls.
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When I was still with Sprint, I had to visit the firehouse in Rio Verde. All the crew there were Verizon customers. They simply got signal in places where AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Cingular and Alltel wouldn't.
Since I switched to Verizon - it's rare I drop a call. You'll pay more than with the other carriers, IMHO, but you do get quality service. YMMV. |
| Had T-mobile when I was stationed at Ft Eustis, VA in 2004, the service was horrid. First time I came back to AZ on leave, the first place I hit was Verizon and walked out with a new phone, 9 years later I am still with Verizon. I am also using this phone as my "home phone". |
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I have T-mobile prepaid right now.
Honestly I hate them. They don't text me a reminder of due date until the day it is due(I pay cash for everything so it means at 11:59pm that night they turn off my phone if I don't run down to the store and pay it right then) and the last three months the servers haven't been accepting that I paid the bill so I have to go back in the next day and show them the THANK YOU FOR PAYING text that they sent me less than 24 hours before and wait while they turn my phone back on. 
I've had this number forever and don't have spare money to put on another new phone somewhere else after less than a year or I'd walk. 
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Can you get the $100 prepaid cards that are good for a year? Then you can just call them in & reload over the phone? (I don't know if your plan works that way or not.) T-Mobile is the only one that offers that range, IIRC. Kinda helpful for Mom's cell phone. (at least until she learns how to text!) 
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| i was a cellular one customer when alltel bought them then when verizon bought them i left verizon as soon as my contract allowed because customer service was shit. i went to t mobile and could not have been happier. just went back to verizon because girlfriend gets a deal and i'm paying $40 a month for unlimited data text and phone. and because she said |
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My Verizon reception sucks at home. My Verizon reception sucks in Scottsdale. All points in between seem to be fine, but in the places I spend the most time there seems to be a huge void. Drives me nuts. My whole neighborhood / area is a Verizon dead zone. Verizon wanted to put a tower in a park just 300 yards from me, but I didn't make the PUC meeting, and all my other neighbors cried like whiney little bitches. Verizon also constantly surveys their signal strength, so they knows where their dead zones are. For a while, they were giving away network extenders that work off your cable or telephone based high speed internet, if your home is in a confirmed dead zone. Calls still count against minutes, but it is the only way we have reliable call service. Bonus is the newer network extender also transmits 3G, so instead of 1x if you're lucky, you get 3G Not that matters much, because we tie into our wireless router at home. If you have broadband internet at work, you can even use it there. It needs to receive GPS signal, to confirm it's in CONUS, but other than that, you can take it with you just about anywhere CONUS. If they won't give you one free, it might be worth buying it. We bought our 1st one, and ported an old phone with our home#, and dropped our landline. Has saved us 45 bucks a month since 2007. It was easy math for us, but YMMV. They also have a N.E. model specific for businesses than can handle more phones that a home N.E. Jay |
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My Verizon reception sucks at home. My Verizon reception sucks in Scottsdale. All points in between seem to be fine, but in the places I spend the most time there seems to be a huge void. Drives me nuts. Dont' recall having a problem at your house. Scottsdale... I don't know. I got wasted each time I was there and don't recall having a phone on me. 
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Verizon is the best IMO, but they still suck.
I can't get signal for shit at my GF's house, 55th and Happy Valley (Stetson Hills). The neighbors have a network extender and I'm on that when I do talk because it beeps and the #48 confirms this. Plus you can't get away from piggybacking on someone's network extender. I tried to get my own but they gave me the runaround, and yes I set my operating address to her home. I told them we were planning on getting her a Verizon phone but not until the coverage works. They wanted me to buy the damn thing, but it uses her internet! They eventually sent me an e-mail that said the problem was fixed...uh no... I didn't push for the extender because I don't talk that much there and the whole concept sucks IMO. Her current service is AT&T, but it's with her boss and she wants off. Signal for AT&T works great for calls though. The neighbors with Sprint, T Mobile and other carriers all said the area sucks for cell. Apparently it's AT&T only that works around that immediate area. Verizon store down the road said that the HOAs don't want a tower in the developments north of Happy Valley. Fucking morons. I know the area is shitty for cell coverage, albeit slightly better on a different phone and perhaps they've tweaked some things over the past year, but you'd think residents around there would want quality signal. Those newer towers are often disguised so well, they don't look bad at all. |
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Can you get the $100 prepaid cards that are good for a year? Then you can just call them in & reload over the phone? (I don't know if your plan works that way or not.) T-Mobile is the only one that offers that range, IIRC. Kinda helpful for Mom's cell phone. (at least until she learns how to text!) I'll have to look into them again, but IIRC there is a limit on how many minutes you get |
| Verizon here. Seems to do better than my wife's AT&T by just a little bit. Rarely do I find a dropped call or dead zone - the one I encounter most though is on N Ellsworth/Usery Pass between McDowell and McKellips. The type of phone seems to make a difference too. My DroidPro seemed to have a little better reception than my 4s. |
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WARNING...... LOOOONG READ....... Readers Digest version........ FUCK VERIZON!!!!!!!!
For those of you with time to kill, read on......... I had Verizon for years until they completely dicked me around for several months. I got my daughter a top of the line phone from them and added her to my account. After a couple weeks the phone took a shit, so we had it replaced. Of course they send a refurbished phone, not a new one that I had paid for, but what can you do. After a couple more weeks, that phone took a shit too. So back it goes and they want to send another refurbished phone. I went back and forth with them on that letting them know I didn't pay for a refurbished phone and didn't want one. It turns out it is protocol. So I asked what happens if this one takes a shit like the other two. They said we can get an upgrade. Ok, good enough. So we get the replacement and sure enough it takes a shit. My daughter calls them and tells them that phone sucks too, so they tell her they are sending her a replacement. She calls me to let me know they are sending ANOTHER refurbished phone like the same ones we have already gone through. Oh hell NO! So I call them and tell them the history. The rep says, "Oh yeah, I can see you've already gone through 3 of these phones. I will reroute that phone back and send you a free upgrade. Sweet! So the upgrade shows up and life goes on. A month later I get my bill and notice it's about $600 too high. So I call them to get to the bottom of it. The rep tells me the phone was delivered to me and I either owe them the money for that phone or I have to send it back. I let them know I never got the phone and that I am not paying them a fucking penny. Then the rep tells me I have to track the phone through the USPS. I tell the rep I don't have a tracking number. She gives me one. I ask if they can track the phone via serial number to which she replies with an awesome attitude, they don't do it that way. Anyway, this goes on for a couple months, and several times they shut off her phone, I have to call and pay reconnect fees, go through the whole story with the new rep, blah blah blah. FINALLY someone says they can trace it by serial number. Turns out it is in their possession. I ask for a reference number for my records and get one. A month later, the phone charge is STILL on the fucking bill. I am freaking pissed. They have essentially called me a thief and a liar while we went through this ordeal. I get a rep, give them the reference number. No reference number on record. I ask them if they think I pulled that number out of my ass. They tell me they don't care where the number came from there is no record of it and I owe them a phone or the money. Here we go again. I am talking to supervisors, managers, etc, all the while incurring reconnect fees and having my daughter with out a phone while she attends college in another state. I keep telling them to track the phone back to the warehouse where it was sent from as that is where the problem lies, it is NOT at the warehouse where the receive goods. After a couple more months someone figures it out and gets it squared away. I send an email to customer service telling them unless they give me a couple free months service I am cancelling my service. I get a response telling me how sorry they are and that they will be happy to give me a $20 credit. I respond letting them know that $20 falls way short of being called a thief and a liar, not to mention the stress of worrying about my daughter being stranded somewhere with out a phone. So I tell them to eat a fat cock and to cancel my service. I pay the early termination fees and when asked why I want to cancel I tell them because they fucking suck. No reply. So you would think we are done..... nope. A couple months go by and I get an email that my bill is available online. Huh??? So I look at it and it's a $45 credit. Sweet!!! But, then again, I don't want to open any old wounds, so I blow it off but save the email. Now, a couple months later, I am getting another email that my bill is available online. So out of morbid curiosity I look at it. Now I owe them $180. WTF. Fuck Verizon regardless how good their service is. Fuck them in their ass, dry, hard, and long. I have switched us to the Wally World T-Mobile Family plan and couldn't be happier. |
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That is pretty shitty service. I know my family has run into billing issues from time to time but Verizon has done well with CS and in the end we were happy. It was and is pretty sad. They know they are the biggest and have the best overall wireless service and could give a shit about one person. I think that's what really bugs the hell out of me. It's like they forgot they had to start out somewhere, build their business by providing good service and have a good product. So they will never miss my $130 monthly income. |