WestmontMike wrote:
I dropped Sprint 2 years ago so take it for whatever it's worth, but they were absolutely awful. Dropped calls, huge dead areas and legendarily bad customer service. fyi, I lived in the western suburbs at the time.
that description is 100% opposite of verizon. yeah they cost a bit more, but you can likely be buried in a cement block 10 feet beneath the street and get a couple bars of 3G and do your thing.
their customer service is great if you stick around for awhile. the little 10 cent piece of metal in my droid razr maxx microUSB (charging) port dies so now the prone is a BRick waiting to happen? insurance kicks in and they say "ok that's obsolete so we're gonna give you a droid razr HD (2nd gen) ok?" i tell them about the 1-2 months i had the original droid razr (1700mAh battery vs 3300mAh in the maxx) and even tho i know the new one boasts like 2200 or 2300, man, still to this day i have programming from those 1-2 months of the razr where i enter a bar or restaurant and then i automatically scan the place to find out where the power outlets are so i can sit there and charge up my phone, cuz that droid razr would go from 100% to orange (~15-25%) in under an hour of realtime usage. using the internet on it? forget about it.
so i tell them i'll gladly pay any reasonable price difference to go up to the droid razr maxx HD and they put me on hold, talk to a supervisor, and say that they respect my loyalty so they'll send me a droid razr maxx HD free of charge. that's why i loves me some verizon even tho i know the day will come when someone breaks free of the data-pimping market and offers me unlimited data and texts along with ~300-450mins/month for ~50-75/month and i jump from my cozy grandfathered in 4gb/30-per-mont data plan @verizon, cuz charging per gigabyte is like digital gasoline; (hell i hear that the mighty comcast cablemodems now have a 250gb/month limit b4 they upcharge you into something nebulous sounding)
you can research and find out what little STRAIGHT TALK WIRELESS type company rents tower/network/satellite/whatever space from verizon and get that same verizon service for cheaper (but likely with "you're fucked if you need customer support" customer support) cuz man it's kind of amazing that data started off unlimited and now gets lower and lower over time as people realize you can peasant-tax ppl for GBs of data usage like the digital gasoline that it is, and verizon would LOVE to get you in one of those family plans or the "all in everything" plan where in the ~2yrs since i got my original 4gb/30-per-month plan they've at least cut it in half if not even more, most assuredly cuz everyones on the network and IF THEY ALL HAD A BUNCH OF DATA IT WOULD BE ANARCHY, ANARCHY I TELL YOU!!!!
the best thing about sprint traditionally was that they had a nice unlimited data package right out of the bat that a lot of people stayed grandfathered into, so thats why a bunch of ppl have stuck with sprint despite what everyone here says about them. but if you've stuck it out or just lived up north like doug is hint hint nudge nudging you to do, well if you've got that unlimited data plan rejoice cuz you can basically stream TV on your phone wherever you go cuz lord knows the average public commons experience in the year of our lorde 2014 needs more telescreens beaming out commercials at us. i still can't get over gas station pump tv.... that one always gets me. or back when they used to experiment with having TVs at the registers of 7-11 hanging there dishing out commercials at you, which was great when you got off of the pacebus and had TransiTV giving you weather from last week for somewhere else along with a spattering of sports scores from 3-4 days ago.
go figure transiTV stopped paying pace to put the product on the buses and bailed on them, lleaving a good # of buses with the dead monitors still in there years after the experiment failed. c'est la vie. its not about general televisions hanging everywhere blaring commercials at you, now its about data-mining info about you from your phone and making sure website ads and google/youtube suggestions are eerily aware of what you're about to look up (like when you search on can i use.... you'll often notice that suggestion #2-4 is exactly what you're going to look up, as if it was listneing to your voice on the microphone, doing a speech to text conversion, feeding google ad/sense the info, and then google perked up and didnt wanna rub it in that it knew what you were gonna look for, so they bury it as suggestion #2-4 so its not that threatening.
welcome to the future, where that stuff happens all the time. unless you're on sprint in a non-north urban area in which case the data stream would get dropped while feeding google your ambient noise data so now they wont be able to "custom tailor your online experience" or however faux-benignly twitter describes it.
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