[Bourn Identity]

Nic is right. So before you start asking people to leave Cingular...

Yeah I'm going to pay the fee anyway and try to get anyone I know to cancel Cingular also.

...remember that they do have a lot of customers for a reason.

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[Crash11]

Obviously I'm not an idiot guys. My point is, I have been paying them for longer than 2 years, with complaints all along the way for bad service, and they wrote a tiny technicality online somewhere and screwed me and many others. I guarantee when I switched they never mentioned a new contract. All they said was I can switch over to Cingular free of charge. All I have to do is choose a new Cingular rate plan. In the 6 months I've had a Cingular phone, I've completed maybe a dozen phone calls, and I know it wasn't a bad phone because I had them send me 2 other ones. I called plenty of times to complain about their service, and they kept reassuring me it would improve. Since I had this house on the way, I didn't want to dive into another 2-year contract.

[Bourn Identity]

Obviously I'm not an idiot guys. My point is, I have been paying them for longer than 2 years, with complaints all along the way for bad service, and they wrote a tiny technicality online somewhere and screwed me and many others. I guarantee when I switched they never mentioned a new contract. All they said was I can switch over to Cingular free of charge. All I have to do is choose a new Cingular rate plan. In the 6 months I've had a Cingular phone, I've completed maybe a dozen phone calls, and I know it wasn't a bad phone because I had them send me 2 other ones. I called plenty of times to complain about their service, and they kept reassuring me it would improve. Since I had this house on the way, I didn't want to dive into another 2-year contract.

I wasn't implying that you were an idiot, and I'm sorry if it seemed that way. Now about them not telling you that they were going to be putting you under another contact isn't fair. I work with Cingular and we are suppose to inform the customer that when migrating them to Cingular they are required to sign another agreement.

[villageidiot]

Yes, the $1 a day charge is just for the Sidekick prepaid plan. The $100 for 1000 min. is what I would recommend. You have 1000 minutes to use for the whole year with no worries. Make sure that you are covered by T-Mobile first.

How about any monthly hidden fees with TMob? Do you just buy minutes and forget about everything until the minutes are almost gone?

[villageidiot]

Damn. I really don't like the Verizon offers. The longest rate period is only 60 days.

And it seems they charge a buck a day, whether you use the phone or not. Is it this true?

[Crash11]

And it seems they charge a buck a day, whether you use the phone or not. Is it this true?

Yep. Verizon's prepaid services just flat out suck. They obviously aren't choosing to be competitive in that regime.

[skier8848]

it doesn't seem like Verizon really needs to be competitive in that realm because they have such a large market share for post paid service.

it is still possible to get a phone that operates on Verizon's CDMA network by using locus platinum. They operate on Verizon's towers, however are not Verizon and offer much better deals.

[n1ckel5]

... At the same time I'm building a house which is very close to being done, and I'm going to be getting a land line service through SBC. Thus, I want to cancel my cell phone service, but I would like to have something to keep in my car for emergencies....

Have you considered bundling your cingular with your sbc services onto one bill? it saves you money.

plus, maybe the cingular people with sbc will be able to give you a smaller regional plan with a better price since you use it so little. i'm not sure of their availability, but something to look into.

[Crash11]

Have you considered bundling your cingular with your sbc services onto one bill? it saves you money.

plus, maybe the cingular people with sbc will be able to give you a smaller regional plan with a better price since you use it so little. i'm not sure of their availability, but something to look into.

Doesn't do me any good because Cingular's service is complete crap everywhere I go. It's especially bad where my new house is.

[cindyjoe]

Help, does anyon know what code ptf 6180 means, when I call a prepaid cingular number I get no rings, goes to not available code ptf 6180. tried from different phones with same results.