Coffee Talk #132: Who Is Your Mobile Phone Provider and Why?

Today’s Coffee Talk is pretty simple. I want to know which company you use for your mobile service. I know that some of you are iPhone users, so I expect AT&T to be a popular choice. I also know that AT&T blows in several parts of America, so it wouldn’t surprise me to see lots of Sprint and Verizon users. If you can get good coverage where you work, play, and live, I think T-Mobile offers the best value of the “big four”. Even T-Mobile’s values can be beaten by regional or pre-paid providers.

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Today’s Coffee Talk is pretty simple. I want to know which company you use for your mobile service. I know that some of you are iPhone users, so I expect AT&T to be a popular choice. I also know that AT&T blows in several parts of America, so it wouldn’t surprise me to see lots of Sprint and Verizon customers. If you can get good coverage where you work, play, and live, I think T-Mobile offers the best value of the “big four”. That said, even T-Mobile’s value can be beaten by regional or pre-paid providers.

Anyway, kindly take this poll and let me know why you went with your current provider. Also, let me know if you’re happy with them or considering jumping ship.

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50 thoughts on “Coffee Talk #132: Who Is Your Mobile Phone Provider and Why?”

  1. Sprint. I don't care about fancy phones. I just take whatever phone they give me for free. I only want to make calls so I can't justify paying $500 for a phone and upwards of $200 a month for the plan.

  2. I have at&t service. I've had a cell phone since 2002 before it was with cingular before it was re-branded with at&t. I don't have any issues with the service also i do get a pretty good discount off my bill -15% thanks to work.

  5. sprint

    cheap, my bill is 65 bucks after everything and i have unlimited internet plus free calls to any cell phone on any network, plus free nights and weekends

    i just wish i had waited for that evo….my hero is still pretty awesome though, it does what i need it to do.

  7. @Big Blak I did hear about that and tweeted it yesterday. What a POS.

    @RRODisHere What provider charges more than $200 a month?

    @smartguy AT&T is cheap?

  8. @rrod

    thats what i said too, before i got the smartphone. It really is super conveniant to have your email and the internet with you at all times.

  9. @ray

    ortiz and jameson are both total pieces of S@#%…who the hell knows what happened, who the hell cares

  11. My folks have me on their ATT plan for $10. The last three phones I owned all have Cingular on them, including my current one. I really want to get a Smartphone and when I do I'm getting the cheapest plan on any carrier I can with unlimited data. I've been waiting for the right financial and technological time, but to no luck so far.

  12. @Ray

    Family plan with my gf and I get to apply a discount. Verizon might be my next provider though…although they make it VERY difficult to get my discount.

  13. Verizon for me, I hear people talk about how it is more expensive than other providers but it is convenient for me. My entire family and seemingly 90% of the people I know are on verizon. Texting and calling is really nice with verizon in my area too, always service. The IN calling and texting is just nice to have. I feel comfortable with their services, I would not mind moving to a different network to get different phones because I do not always like the ones that verizon has, but so far it hasn't pushed me away completely.

  14. I have Sprint because they are cheap and their footprint in my area is great. Plus in this area they roam off Verizon so I rarely lose coverage.

  15. I have AT&T. I have been with them since 1998 or 99 I can't remember. Heck they may have even carried my pager plan but I for sure don't remember who that was.

    I switched to Alltel because AT&T left this area and half of the people got dropped and half got moved to Cingular. I had Alltel for 2 days and never had any service. I tried to buy 2 phones in the store and they told me I HAD TO give them my old phone first. So I bought 2 brand new phones over the phone with Alltel with my bank card. I got the phones and they didn't work. Took them to the store and they said they needed to be sent in for a firmware update. I gave them the phones back and canceled my service (they have a 7 day satisfaction guarantee). I then got a bill for 1 month of service and 2 cancellation fees and 2 cell phones total was $1700. I called them and they said I never paid for the phones ($400 ea). I asked if it was customary to mail out phones that were never paid for and they said no. It took 3 months of fighting but they scrapped my entire bill.

    I went back to AT&T (cingular at the time) and decided its best just to stick with what works.

  23. Maybe??? How did you know! what other abilities do Cowbell Heroes have????

    No for real i got a Cubs game to go to tomorrow it's a 120p start.

  24. Verizon. Best network in my area, plus we get a discount through where my wife works. We've had AT&T/Cingular and T-Mobile previously and had bad experiences with both.

  25. Cowbell heroes have the ability to make Santana and Blue Oyster Cult sound 6 yo 8 times cooler.

  27. @Raymond Padilla

    I was interested in getting the Instinct smart phone until Sprint said my monthly plan would be $165 per month so I said no thanks.

  33. @RRODisHere The Instinct was a LONG time ago. Sprint's pricing has changed drastically since then. If you compare the unlimited plans, I believe Verizon is the most expensive followed by AT&T then Sprint then T-Mobile.

  34. Virgin Mobile here. I really only have a cell phone in case of emergencies, so pay-as-you-go is the sensible choice for me.

  36. Just beat Shadow Complex with 3% of the items, meaning I got my last achievement for this one, 9 completed games now. Time to find something else to play.

  38. @smartguy

    either way dude….we are already on the clock

    with the first pick in the 2011 nfl draft, the buffalo bills select–Jake locker, QB from washington

  39. alright, i gotta talk about something

    did yall see how they found noahs ark?

    all the creationists are being all smug all over facebook with their "i told you so" tone

    i hate people. Are Americans really this stupid? There isnt enough water on the planet earth to get a boat up that high on that mountain…literraly

    and now carbon dating is a useful tool?

    If floodwaters covered Eurasia 12,000ft deep in 2,800BC, how did the complex societies of Egypt and Mesopotamia, already many centuries old, keep right on regardless?

    ill shutup

  41. @thundercracker

    Both of those societies have tales of the exact same event. Noahs Ark isn't a Christian only story. That story is told all over the world by many religions.

  42. @sandrock

    exactly my point

    but in every other story, its a regional flood, not a worldwide flood

    @smartguy

    im american too dude, and before you go all hacksaw jim duggan on me, i just find it absoltely insane the things people believe without benefit of scientific evidence. Im just glad these people arent supreme court justices….whats that you say?

  43. @thundercracker

    wasn't going that direction. I saw that story picked up by more than American news sites.

    As the Justices go. I don't care as long as their decisions are based on law.

  44. @thundercracker

    But if the story is as wide spread as it is, then that would indicate it was a global flood. The Christian story is the newest version of the story, and would of course say global because they actually knew there was more to the world than where they live. Most of the tales are so old that a regional flood pretty much meant global to those people, but they wouldn't have a word for global because they didn't know there was more to the world than what they can see. Hell, most people today are that way. They just have a better vocabulary, which isn't saying much.

  45. @sandrock

    there is evidence of a regional flood, thats absolutely true. And region=world to these people

    The christian version of the story is TOTALLY different than any other version of the story, insomuch that christians believed noah was told by god to make the arc, and of course…the 6 billion animals…including saltwater fish (lol)

    what i dont get is the distribution of the animal species..how did all the marsupials end up in australia?

  46. @smartguy

    im not overly political anymore, my opinion means nothing..im not a lobbyist, i was just joshin

  48. @noah's ark

    This is pretty old news, people have been talking about the ark being on Mt. Ararat since 1949 when some of the first pictures were taken of what was thought to be the ark.

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