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Since we seem to be beating up everything else these days, why not cell carriers too?
I do have a positive story to share (though it starts with a carrier change).
We had been on Verizon (for many years) and while the service was fine, the cost just kept going up and up each year, with more features being offered for another charge (or two, or three). The final straw for us was when one of our kids moved off our plan (married a couple of years ago while in college, now graduated and with a good job so he moved off our plan). We had four lines with Verizon so in the course of dropping a line, I had the expectation of a bill decreasing by (approx) 25%.
The reality turned out to be a drop about 11% due to (yet another) change in Verizon policy with respect to their data plan. I called and asked about this, and received a rather vague explanation. So I shopped our new situation of three lines (with one of kids still on our plan AND in the military) and found T-Mobile.
In our area, T-Mobile had a reputation of lousy reception. Apparently though, with emerging technologies and improved phones, their reception has improved. I walked into a local T-Mobile store and as part of the evaluation of whether their service would work for us, I purchased a phone on a 14 trial basis (refundable if not satisfied) and gave their system a testing. In our case, and in our area, T-Mobile is now a viable option.
With that bit of proof in hand, I went back to the store, cancelled the trial phone (all costs fully refunded) and opened three lines with T-Mobile. All services I had with Verizon are on these lines - and the monthly bill will drop by around $30 per month.
T-Mobile also has a good number of free offers and services - Verizon offers nothing like this to my knowledge.
I am not being paid by T-Mobile for this posting! However, if you are at a point where you can shop for a new cell service and have not considered T-Mobile recently, perhaps you should give them a try once again!
I do have a positive story to share (though it starts with a carrier change).
We had been on Verizon (for many years) and while the service was fine, the cost just kept going up and up each year, with more features being offered for another charge (or two, or three). The final straw for us was when one of our kids moved off our plan (married a couple of years ago while in college, now graduated and with a good job so he moved off our plan). We had four lines with Verizon so in the course of dropping a line, I had the expectation of a bill decreasing by (approx) 25%.
The reality turned out to be a drop about 11% due to (yet another) change in Verizon policy with respect to their data plan. I called and asked about this, and received a rather vague explanation. So I shopped our new situation of three lines (with one of kids still on our plan AND in the military) and found T-Mobile.
In our area, T-Mobile had a reputation of lousy reception. Apparently though, with emerging technologies and improved phones, their reception has improved. I walked into a local T-Mobile store and as part of the evaluation of whether their service would work for us, I purchased a phone on a 14 trial basis (refundable if not satisfied) and gave their system a testing. In our case, and in our area, T-Mobile is now a viable option.
With that bit of proof in hand, I went back to the store, cancelled the trial phone (all costs fully refunded) and opened three lines with T-Mobile. All services I had with Verizon are on these lines - and the monthly bill will drop by around $30 per month.
T-Mobile also has a good number of free offers and services - Verizon offers nothing like this to my knowledge.
I am not being paid by T-Mobile for this posting! However, if you are at a point where you can shop for a new cell service and have not considered T-Mobile recently, perhaps you should give them a try once again!