[Heavy Fluid]

I am currently with Sprint, with no complaints, a Samsung A740 for me, and a Samsung A680 for the wife.

Past providers:
Nextel
AT&T

[Chuckit]

T-Mobile. Hey, if it's good enough for Catherine Zeta-Jones…

[E's Lil Theorem]

Originally Posted by Chuckit

T-Mobile. Hey, if it's good enough for Catherine Zeta-Jones…

Heh, same here.

[brapper]

Rogers

[wdlove]

My wife uses Verizon Wireless for her job. Have the best coverage in our area.

[lavar78]

I recently switched to Sprint from T-Mobile. The coverage is much better. I would've gone to Verizon if there unlimited-data plan weren't so outrageously expensive.

Heavy Fluid, you didn't answer the poll.

[TETENAL]

O₂ (and a simyo card in my old phone).

[MrForgetable]

Switched from T-mobile to Cingular and thinking about switching back. Anything but Nextel in my area would be fine though. Seems like my house is the only dead-spot in our area and it's annoying.

[badidea]

Originally Posted by TETENAL

O₂

same here

[as2]

Personal - O₂
Work - Vodafone

[Eug Wanker]

Hey, you can select all the options for the poll. So I did.

[ReggieX]

Other, Fido.

[Weyland-Yutani]

Amena

cheers

W-Y

[ghporter]

Cingular-but not for long if they don't get their act together. It's been almost a year since they bought AT&T, and they STILL don't have a rate plan that's comparable to the one I have from AT&T.

[Paco500]

Have Sprint, but I wish I had Cingular- much better phones. But, my wife goes to her mom's place at least once a month in small town NC and Sprint and Verizon are the only ones with coverage in her town and for a good part of the drive- and I will not use Verizon.

[Eug Wanker]

Originally Posted by Paco500

Have Sprint, but I wish I had Cingular- much better phones.

GSM rocks.

[jasonsRX7]

Sprint, and pretty happy with them. I'm also in a small town in NC.

[Heavy Fluid]

Originally Posted by lavar78

I recently switched to Sprint from T-Mobile. The coverage is much better. I would've gone to Verizon if there unlimited-data plan weren't so outrageously expensive.

Heavy Fluid, you didn't answer the poll.

Yep, sorry about that. Every vote counts. I am in there now.

[Doofy]

Orange.

[spatterson]

T-Mobile

[rozwado1]

In Lansing, especially around MSU, T-mo is pretty good too. I had Sprint freshman year, with many complaints.

Originally Posted by Heavy Fluid

I am currently with Sprint, with no complaints,

[Heavy Fluid]

Originally Posted by rozwado1

In Lansing, especially around MSU, T-mo is pretty good too. I had Sprint freshman year, with many complaints.

My friend is using T-Mo currently, and he likes it. What kind of complaints did you have about Sprint, besides their CS, and when was freshman year?

[SSharon]

I have been very happy with my cingular service in college park maryland, but at home its next to useless. I do not have as much luck with my t-mobile phone but I will bet money its the crappy v-300 phone and not t-mobile. The rest of my family uses U.S. Cellular and are all happy.
To date, the best coverage I have seen is with cellcom in Israel when I was there for the year. Both cellcom and orange pretty much cover the entire country.

[sek929]

I have Nextel and its service is awful. Luckily I am under contract until Nov. 2006.

[rickey939]

Sprint...I love'em and hate'em all at the same time.

[Scandalous Ion Cannon]

www.rogers.ca

They be awesome

[nerd]

I used to have T-Mobile and it was good. I had the 3000 minutes/month plan for $50 and still no one that I've seen touches it. I ditched the phone because work provides me with one which is Altell. No grips there except for the phone isn't bluetooth.

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by sek929

I have Nextel and its service is awful. Luckily I am under contract until Nov. 2006.

I'm surprised at all the Nextel hate in this thread. I actually prefer Nextel to T-Mobile (their coverage area was freakin' incredible last I used it), but T-Mobile is just a better deal.

[Sealobo]

3 - 3g

[sek929]

Originally Posted by Chuckit

I'm surprised at all the Nextel hate in this thread. I actually prefer Nextel to T-Mobile (their coverage area was freakin' incredible last I used it), but T-Mobile is just a better deal.

Around here the coverage is awful. I get no service in my house, lousy service on the porch, mediocre service in the city I live in and perfect signal in the middle of the ocean on the Nantucket Ferry...WTF????

[Warung]

T-Mobile (Germany). Pretty decent service and good coverage...

[MindFad]

T-Mobile. Good service, good coverage, good plans. Works for me.

[Randman]

M1. Good service but the 3G signals are lame.

[11011001]

Telus

Excellent coverage.

Outdated, overpriced phones. Hidden strings. Shitty customer service. They also handicap the OS on the phones so they can make more money through their services.

I signed on for a year long contract, with unlimited evenings and weekends. The term ended, I asked if I could pay it month by month and they said yes. So, here I was paying for unlimited evenings and weekends and bam, my next bill was $700.00. I was outraged, and called them, they said that even though I was paying for unlimited evenings and weekends I wasn't on a contract, so I couldn't get them.

I'm now stuck in another year long contract wishing that I could change.

Their internet service is also crap. They actively censored sites related to an employee strike (and many others, including one for breast cancer). They also force all outgoing smtp traffic to go through their smtp server. This really makes sending an email from home a pain in the ass while I have to wait several minutes for Mail.app to timeout and offer me the chance to change the outgoing server (I send most of my emails from a campus network which is why I haven't changed the configuration).

I hope they go out of business...

[Railroader]

Nextel. And no, I am not that annoying guy in the mall/supermarket/club with the God forsaken "D-leep". I can't stand the speakerphone direct-connect. It's sooo much easier and better to use it in private mode.

It's the cheapest for what I want. And has an awesome signal where I work, play, and live.

AT&T's service was nice but their billing dept. is screwy and I always had a different balance on my bill and was often billed twice.

Sprint has the worst reception in Michigan of any provider.

Verizon is what about 90% of the poeple I know have because they have the widest coverage and cover the most remote areas around here.

[Cody Dawg]

Cingular - and it sucks.

This is the last year with Cingular. I have had AT&T for five years and now it is Cingular and they can take a flying freaking leap after this year. Constant dropped calls and bullsh*t when I call them about it. I pay about $99 for about 2000 minutes a month. They suck.

Cingular

[baw]

T-Moble. It sucks. I'm switching back to CBWireless after my contract is up.

[iMOTOR]

My first cell was with sprint, the phone was great and the coverage and sound quality was great, that's the only thing good about sprint. Otherwise sprint was a nightmare, I would pay them on time, they would ether say I paid late or say I never paid at all and then call me names I can't repeat here, yeah, like that'll get me to pay bills I don't owe.


Cell company number 2: verizon.
I really liked cdma sound quality and coverage, so, I give verizon a try. Get a phone, great everything works. I go back to get a second phone for my Dad, "we can't give you another phone, you have an outstanding balance from 1998" I had never even heard of verizon in 1998.

Fsck verizon.

So now I hate both cdma companies. That leaves gsm. I've heard Cingular/AT&T are horrible so I went with T-mobile. The coverage and sound quality aren't as great as cdma but their customer service is miles ahead of sprint and verizon. Everyone at t-mo has been so friendly. T-mo is a keeper.

[Athens]

Fido (Microcell) Right now with a Unlimited Incoming/Outgoing plan for 40.00 a month

Been with Rogers AT&T
and Telus in the past

[Big Mac]

Originally Posted by iMOTOR

I really liked cdma sound quality and coverage, so, I give verizon a try. Get a phone, great everything works. I go back to get a second phone for my Dad, "we can't give you another phone, you have an outstanding balance from 1998" I had never even heard of verizon in 1998.

Verizon was formed through a merger of GTE, Bell Atlantic and Airtouch in 1999-2000, so perhaps you had an outstanding balance on one of those constituent services.

[angelmb]

Originally Posted by Weyland-Yutani

Amena

cheers

W-Y

do you live in Spain?

[dracoleb]

Treo 650 on Sprint

[DarwinX]

Verizon. I've never had a problem with sevice, and I'm loving my new e815 with Bluetooth for iSync and wireless internet on the PowerBook. wOot.

[iMOTOR]

Originally Posted by Big Mac

Verizon was formed through a merger of GTE, Bell Atlantic and Airtouch in 1999-2000, so perhaps you had an outstanding balance on one of those constituent services.

I know about airtouch, but I didn't have an outstanding balance with airtouch, and if I did, the statue of limitations has long gone into effect. Besides, I asked them what account I was past due on, they said they couldn't tell me anything about the charges except that their "records" show that I owe them.

[bstone]

US Cellular, which you don't have above.

I pay $39.99 a month and I get:
* 800 anytime minutes
* Nights @ 7pm
* Free nights and weekends
* Free unlimited mobile to mobile (other US Cellular)

I had the same thing from Cingular and then I fired them cause it cost $80/month.

[Paco500]

Originally Posted by Eug Wanker

GSM rocks.

Technically, I think CDMA is superior- better quality, much higher data speeds.

However, GSM providers have better phones.

The argument that GSM is global doesn't hold much weight with me. I don't travel internationally except very occasionally for pleasure. I'll leave my phone at home.

That being said, I wish I could dump Sprint and go Cingular, but it's not going to happen anytime soon.

[bstone]

US Cellular uses CDMA. I just spent a month in W Virginia on a camping trip. Anyone who had Cingular were out of luck. I was working great.

[wkw88]

Cingular, Nokia 6620, Scala 500 BT headset

[Judge_Fire]

Elisa. Coverage has been perfect from subway trains to northern Lapland national parks to even remote islands in the archipelago for 10 years, soon

So what could be a better time to introduce this 3G crap, which still has roaming issues and other weirdness - just when everything was mature to the point it was transparent.

J

[Kenneth]

My first provider was AT&T and then switched to Voicestream/T-mobile. Now, I'm using Cingular/AT&T.
BTW, I lives miles away from the T-mobile HQ.