Educate me...

[nangiggles]

Ok, so I have a job and start next week, I have an apartment which I move into next saturday, here's the art where I REALLY need help:

How do I go about a cellphone? I have a GSM HTC phone which I'd really like to keep if not that's ok too, I dont need a lot of minutes but I do need to have internet access (I think it's called data plan) on my cellphone, so what do you recommend? ATT, Verizon, Cingular, etc

 

[grubd]

Att which is the new cingular.

 

[bakemeacookie]

I've had good service with sprint. But not the cheapest thouguh.

c

 

[kx250rider]

My best internet-enabled phone is my Verizon (Motorola) Droid. It's like having a tiny laptop! We have a business plan, which is about $350/month (DIRT CHEAP for what we have) Includes 5 phones and unlimited internet data and something like 1500 mins per phone. I think they have other good plans for regular accounts too. I also have an AT&T Blackberry, and I hate it. The service is OK, but the phone is hard to use and has a keypad designed for the fingers of an Asian field mouse.

Charles

 

[chris302001]

AT&T and tmo r gsm

 

[nangiggles]

Holy Shit I have crowns!!!!! (Im rich bitch )
Will look up tmobile

 

[musclemom]

My husband has T-Mobile and he's pretty happy with it. Good service, unlimited texting and internet and favorite 5 people for about $79 a month, total including $5 montly replacement insurance (it makes him happy).

FYI, they run a credit check on you to get a cell phone with a plan.

 

[bakemeacookie]

if ur worried about minues/ld. get skype installed. then call using it. I see lots of peeps in Hollywood uses Skype on their cell phones to call all day to international locations w/o incurring big fees. They can even call you on it.

c

 

[billfred]

att Iphone. Anything else and you will be counting the days to get it replaced.

 

[trex74]

If you have Koodoo in the states it's great and dirt cheap. I've never had a complaint.

 

[nydj66]

If T-mobile has good coverage where you are, they will be the least expensive. ATT has the Iphone and the fastest 3G network but their coverage isn't great; so again, depends on the coverage in your area and how much you travel. Verizon has the best national coverage. I have a Blackberry Curve through Verizon and I love it. Internet access is great on the Blackberry and Verizon has the best coverage by far in the area that I travel.

 

[redshirt27se]

t-mobile

verizon


ATT sucks balls unless you live in the center of a major city.

 

[nangiggles]

My husband has T-Mobile and he's pretty happy with it. Good service, unlimited texting and internet and favorite 5 people for about $79 a month, total including $5 montly replacement insurance (it makes him happy).

FYI, they run a credit check on you to get a cell phone with a plan.

Gonna go buy a Tracfone then.... I dont have bad credit, I just dont have ANY credit...

 

[musclemom]

Gonna go buy a Tracfone then.... I dont have bad credit, I just dont have ANY credit...

Don't give up yet, the reason I mentioned that was because I suspected that to be the case with you.

Can you get someone who has established credit to go get the phone and cosign for you? Same as with loan.

 

[kx250rider]

Gonna go buy a Tracfone then.... I dont have bad credit, I just dont have ANY credit...

Or you can put up a deposit, and after a period of time, they credit it back to you. That's how I got my first car phone, and I had no credit. That's when it was still $100/month plus 45c minute daytime & 22c minute nights. 1985-ish.

Charles

 

[nangiggles]

I decided to look into the damn tracfone in the meantime while I build credit, it's $39.99 for 4 months service and 140 minutes to use, I can use those minutes nationwide and even to call Costa Rica, I think this will do for now... it's not like I have anyone to call anyway

 

[Dial_tone]

I just got a Verizon account and I don't think they ran my credit, don't see how they could have because I froze mine a year ago. I was taking over a number from my ex employer though.

 

[calveless wonder]

t-mobile is pretty lenient credit wise.....their service(signal) isn't the best but they're definitely the cheapest among the major carriers.

used to have them but switched over to at&t when i got an iphone. at&t rapes you and they're such scumbags with their fees. i just didn't want to pay an assload to get an unlocked one on a non 3g network

 

[FriendlyCanadian]

Telus is a bunch of cock biting, anal raping pirate monkeys!