Cell Phone Provider
 

I know this isn't car related, but I wanted to see who people in the northeast have for their cell phone provider. I'm thinking about switching to US Cellular from Verizon.

They're all crap. But I have T-Mobile.

I like Verizon, and if you ever have a problem just walk into one of their stores and they can fix anything right there.

I have Verizon but I want a smartphone and they don't offer unlimited data so I might be stuck with sprint.

From my experience service is Verizon -> Sprint -> AT&T

Haven't experience t mobile or us cellular. Years ago my impression was T mobile was a joke, don't know if they improved?

I've had Sprint for 8+ years and haven't had any issues that they couldn't fix. A little know fact between Sprint and Verizon is that they share networks for roaming. As far as I know both also offer free roaming in their plans.

That said, I pay 133$ for two smartphone lines. 1500 shared "anytime" minutes to landlines (M-F, 7am-7pm)... unlimited minutes/data/4g for everything else.

And I swear Verizon/AT&T have panels dedicated to finding ways to milk/screw it's customers. It seems every other month I read something about anti-consumer policy changes from either of those two... sad, really.

I'm not in the NE, but I'm going through this right now. I'm grandfathered in to Verizon's unlimited data plan so I'm deciding if I want to just outright buy a phone upgrade (my Droid X is starting to show its age) or give in to the upgrade discounts.

Such decisions.

AT&T here. Didn't work so great on the Kanc. :paddle:

I think big red is eliminating unlimited data all together. I know they told my buddy that no matter how he procured a new phone, his unlimited data will be gone...

That's the problem I have. I currently have unlimited data, but I need to pay full price on any future phones. The monthly cost is about the same for US Cellular, but I can buy phones subsidized.

Interesting, since you can swap the phones yourself without a change in plans. I guess they may have a block on it if you do it through the website. I'll have to check on that.

I'm not really sure I need unlimited data either, but the thought just aggravates me. I'm somewhat locked into Verizon because of my company's BYOD restrictions.

Yea, it may have also been a dumb rep too. There are a lot of those.

I've used 2GB in a day before with tethering, but I now average around 2.5-3 for a month. I'm sure that will go up slightly now that I tether my head unit to the phone.

I've bought two phones for full price on Verizon in the past 4 months (ended up returning them), but I had no issue keeping my unlimited data. Verizon has said that as long as you paid full price they won't kick you off, but then again you are on a month-to-month contract, so they could kick you off whenever they wanted to.

That's pretty much how it was explained to me as well. Now I just have to decide what new phone I want....

I vote for the HTC DNA.