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Personal experiences with phones and carriers.... Posted by MI-Roger [Email]  (#882) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from MI-Roger) on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:48:04
In Reply to: Cell phone plans -- for families-- question, brick8, Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:17:46 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Our home/family plan is Cingular, my work plan has been AT&T, Verizon, and Nextel. Of these Verizon has been the best at signal level and absence of dropped calls. A reasonably close second place would be a tie between Cingular and AT&T (I think Cingular recently bought AT&T). The very distant fourth place goes to Nextel.
Our Cingular Family Plan allows for unused minutes on any phone to be "Rolled Over" to cover excess monthly usage on any phone for up to one year. It also has "free" mobile to mobile calling which doesn't consume any of the alloted monthly minutes. The Roll-Over feature has saved us money many months and I don't recall other carriers offering it.
For phones I/we have had: Motorola, Nokia, LG, and Samsung. Nokia phones have been far and away the best/most reliable, followed by Motorola. The LG and Samsung brands sucked.
My oldest son was walking across a street in Miami FL (in the cross walk with a green "WALK" signal) when he was struck by a Honda Civic accelerating around the corner. He impacted the Honda's hood, crashed through the windshield, bounced out of the car, hit the pavement, and came to a skidding stop on the asphalt. The Nokia bar phone in his pants pocket still worked so he could call us in MI to tell us what happened. (Thank God Honda engineers design their cars to be pedestrian friendly as he came away almost completely unscathed).
This same oldest child is a technology junkie, but even he has gotten fed up with too many features on phones and now carries a "plain-jane" Nokia bar phone again. Of course it is a model designed primarily for the European market - if not cool with features, be cool with exclusivity!
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