Cell phones

[the People's Champ]

for those with cell phones, do you even use your home phone to call out? nowadays, cell phone deals are so good that a home phone is just redundant.

 

[WormAAA77]

i dont even know my home phone number. i only use it for internet. i have sprint for my cell carrier and i think my deal is something like 3,500 minutes a month for 50 dollars? all of those minutes can be used for long distance as well. the only catch is that 2,500 are daytime minutes and the leftover 1k are nights and weekends.

 

[the People's Champ]

what kind of catch is that? jeesus! I dont spend a lot of time on the phone, and the majority of my minutes offered are nights and weekends.

 

[WormAAA77]

i take that back, 2,500 are nights and weekends, the other 1,000 are daytime minutes. i dont talk on the phone much more htan 20 minutes a day at most so i dont pay much attention.

 

[huntmaster]

I use my cell for most of my calls.

This way I dont have to pay for longdistance. Works pretty good.

 

[Spruceman]

Most of the good deals are with companies like Sprint and Nextel that require calls be placed only from their networks. That's great if you're in a city or on the interstate highway system -- but it really bites if you're in a small town or rural area more than a few miles from an interstate, where those companies do not have cell sites.

There are large areas in West Virginia that have no cell service at all. And most of the served parts of the state have access only to carriers that provide none of these great deals. I find it strange when I hear these stories about cell service all over the place in third-world countries -- or of hikers being rescued in remote places in the US thanks to a cell phone. But I can find many places within 150 miles of Washington DC that have absolutely no cell service -- as well as no local (no toll charge) internet access dialup numbers from land lines.

As far as that goes, there are rural areas that don't even have landline service available. I had to string my own landline over a mile from a shed on land I leased next to the highway to be able to get service at my house. And there's absolutely no cell service in this corner of the county. I'm not bitching as it was my choice to get land in a remote area and I can't expect them to have a lot of money-losing cell sites. Just don't believe anyone's claim to nationwide coverage -- there is no such thing as "nationwide" cell service and probably never will be.

Life in Cell -- isn't like the X-File where Fox Mulder is inside a buried steel boxcar at the bottom of a narrow canyon, a hundred miles in the desert in the Four-Corners area of the Southwest placing a call from his 600-mw cellphone.

 

[bigschweeler]

Can you hear me now?

 

[TheProject]

Can you hear me now?

Okay, good.

 

[dimitrios]

I have 1500 on peek minutes (8:00am to 8:00pm monday to Friday) anywhere in the U.S.A. and unlimited off peek which include weekends. I can call anywhere in the US at no cost. Free 411 service, call waiting, voice mail and three way calling. This package cost's me $53.00 a month.

 

[the nature boy]

brain cancer.