is it a universal law that all cell phone companies must blow chunks?

verizon-king's of fucked

sprint-even worse

t mobile-horribly & shitty

at&t-retarded

from customer service ,to billing,hardware I have yet to fins a professionally run acceptable cellular company.

is it this fucked in europe?

  On 3/15/2013 at 9:29 PM, yikes said:

verizon-king's of fucked

sprint-even worse

t mobile-horribly & shitty

at&t-retarded

 

 

from customer service ,to billing,hardware I have yet to fins a professionally run acceptable cellular company.

 

is it this fucked in europe?

Nope.

Leave the US.

Telecommunications companies are bastards worldwide, yes.

  On 3/15/2013 at 9:46 PM, luke viia said:

Telecommunications companies are bastards worldwide, yes.

but they're quite a bit more fucked in America, eg: charging customers for sending and receiving texts / calls.

This doesn't happen in Europe.

also, the absolutely extortionate charges for data.

I'm still amazed that I can throw my voice into a device and it sends it to someone else's device, no matter how far away I am.

MAGIC.

I'm with giffgaff and pay 12 quid a month for basically everything, it's awesome.

it's cool here after some major reforms, about 25$ per month for unlimited internets/sms/phone calls with no obligations.

I'm in the UK, £16 a month = infinite texts, 500 free minutes and unlimited data

Rolling month by month contract, no minumum term, can stop at any time

I own the phone, its a sim only deal. I can tether.

I didn't even bother to shop around that much, there's probably better.

I think in the USA you can barely even get SIM only deals?

I have virgin mobile, its good i guess, nothing to complain about.

ting sounds pretty cool https://ting.com/ but have not tried them

even though korea has only three Telecom companies, the situation is pretty good. probably due to the size of the country, so the infrastructure is great an there are no regional monopolies. 1GB data plans are about $30/month.

The carriers seem to do a good job of pushing out Android updates too. My ancient Galaxy SII has been on android 4.1.2 for a while now, which is the same as my mom's Verizon Galaxy Nexus.

Lol at complaining about cellphone companies in the states.

#Canadian problems.

My family pays 211 for 3 people monthly for 1000 minutes shared, unlimited texting and shared 2GB worth of Data. We are wtih verizon and have been getting fucked by them since the start. It is sad that this is considered normal and the lowest we have managed to set up with them.

Is there anyway around this? How much are other verizon customers paying?

  On 3/16/2013 at 2:45 AM, Root5 said:

Lol at complaining about cellphone companies in the states.

 

#Canadian problems.

>:'O I know..

  On 3/16/2013 at 2:25 AM, apeterlives said:

ting sounds pretty cool https://ting.com/ but have not tried them

If this is for real, then this is an epiphany. I'm tired of paying $85/mo for my service.

Yup. Let's not even touch isp

I pay 80ish a month with AT&T. 500 minutes, 2gb data. I hate paying so much for the minutes, i really should drop to a lower amount. I never use even half of them.

that sounds like shit, i get 200 minute, free texts, and 1.5 gig for 10 quid a month pay as you go

  On 3/16/2013 at 8:41 AM, ambermonk said:

 

  On 3/16/2013 at 2:25 AM, apeterlives said:

ting sounds pretty cool https://ting.com/ but have not tried them

 

If this is for real, then this is an epiphany. I'm tired of paying $85/mo for my service.

+1

canada too lol. also, the idea of having long distance charges in such a big spread-out country are fucking shit

in europe they really are much better. you dont get charged for receiving anything. also if you have pay-as-you-go, the credit stays there forever instead of being stolen at the end of the month

  On 3/15/2013 at 10:44 PM, Braintree said:

I'm still amazed that I can throw my voice into a device and it sends it to someone else's device, no matter how far away I am.

 

MAGIC.

  On 3/16/2013 at 5:14 PM, tauboo said:

 

  On 3/15/2013 at 10:44 PM, Braintree said:

I'm still amazed that I can throw my voice into a device and it sends it to someone else's device, no matter how far away I am.

 

MAGIC.

is this why they get away with ripping off americans?

No, they get away with ripping off Americans because they're all working together to keep the costs high. The old business model of lowering the price to tempt a potential customer doesn't work anymore. The companies know someone will buy their product no matter what, so they charge whatever they want.

  On 3/16/2013 at 3:31 PM, messiaen said:

that sounds like shit, i get 200 minute, free texts, and 1.5 gig for 10 quid a month pay as you go

that is fucked up.