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What Carrier Will You Be Leaving To Get iPhone 3G

What US Wireless Carrier Will You Be Leaving For iPhone 3G?

  • Verizon

    Votes: 38 26.0%

  • Sprint

    Votes: 13 8.9%

  • T-Mobile

    Votes: 26 17.8%

  • Alltel

    Votes: 5 3.4%

  • Helio

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I already have AT&T

    Votes: 47 32.2%

  • Other

    Votes: 17 11.6%
  • Total voters
    146
I am deeply conflicted on this topic--I've been happy with the coverage on my VZW phones for many years, but increasingly unhappy at their slowness in releasing new phones. A few years back, I had VZW's best ever smartphone, the XV6000, apparently just another name slapped onto one of HTC's Windows Mobile phones.

About sixteen months ago, VZ "upgraded" their data network, and required me to update the firmware on my phone. Well, the firmware upgrade never worked correctly, and I was not alone, as many on user forums had the same problem. So I bit the bullet and got a new Treo 700WX. Imagine my shock and dismay when I found that this "new" phone had a radically slower speed than my old one. And of course, I had the typical problems migrating my 3rd party apps over, some of which have never been resolved at all, after all this time. Basically, the Treo 700WX is a terrible phone, and suffers from the problems of being underpowered, and (just like the Palm OS phones), is a phone pasted onto a PDA platform, rather than being designed from scratch as a cell phone/PDA/music player.

OTOH, I cannot believe that a new second version of the iPhone is STILL being released without A2DP. And the third party app situation for iPhone won't be clear to us for another few weeks now. IF the third party app situation is relatively good, I may bite the bullet and jump, notwithstanding my misgivings--although how well Apple/AT&T are going to cope with in-store activation and porting my phone number is another nightmare to which I am not looking forward.

If a SlingPlayer app is there, and a port of the old Palm e-reader is available (so all my old e-books don't turn into orphans), I may take the jump--especially if somebody gives me some reason to believe that A2DP might be made available later through a firmware update.

I do wish I had a more clear idea as to what to expect from Android later on this year--that may be the first platform to give Apple a run for its money, since it too will be designed from scratch--over the long haul that may be the way to go, I suspect..I know I'm downloading their SDK when I get back from vacation...
 
motulist said:
The company I'm currently with is lame, but not completely evil. It's sprint.
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Sprint has to have the worst customer service I have ever experienced, I too was being double billed and all of their phones suck, why do you think at&t is worse?

So far I have had zero problems with at&t, service is better than sprint in many areas, the customer service is 10x better, I waited on a phone for 60 minutes just to speak to a sprint rep several times...

But I did have cingular back in the day, and I must admit that they too double billed and had terrible customer service, It looks as though it has gotten a lot better with the merger
 
I'm leaving a Verizon family plan next month. I hope they don't give me trouble about switching my # over. I need to call them to see if there's an early termination fee for a family plan.
 
rolex54 said:
why do you think at&t is worse?
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I don't think att is worse quality-wise, I think they're more evil.

AT&T broke one of our most fundamental constitutional laws, upon mere request they let the government monitor EVERY conversation that everyone made over their network. It's called warrantless wiretapping, and it's completely unconstitutional.

AT&T along with Verizon and Comcast have blocked usenet's entire alt.* category of newsgroups in the name of trying to eliminate child porn which was supposedly occurring in like 15 out of the 40,000 alt.* newsgroup communities. Clearly they are not interested in eliminating child porn because if they were then they just would've shutdown just those 15 groups. AT&T are trying to destroy the internet as we know it and replace it with a network where what you can access is highly controlled by them so that they can kill any upcoming threats to their business like voice over IP and also so they can force consumers to pay more for content that they now control the gateway to.

ATT&T is evil. Very evil.
 
verizon

ill be leaving verizon...i just can decide if im gonna wait till my contract is up next march or if im gonna suck it up and pay the fees.
 
I'll be leaving verizon finally... My contract just ended so I'm on month to month right now. Hopefully my port goes smoothly.
 
motulist said:
None. The iPhone is really cool, but I'm not willing to switch to an evil company like att to do it.
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I don't understand this, Why do you say that AT&T is evil? I've had Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T all within the last 5 years and I didn't have any major problems with any of them, I just kept switching to get cooler phones. :D

In my experience AT&T does have the fewest dropped calls, but the others weren't that bad either. T-Mobile did try to steal $500 from me by misplacing a decimal point on a five dollar purchase of some ringtones, but they gave it back after I sent Visa after them.

I have had AT&T for the past two years and my contract just came up for renewal so I'm going to get the iPhone 3G. I really haven't had any problems with them in my 2-year experience, What don't people like about them?

Edit: Sorry motulist I missed your last post before I wrote this, but is this the same reason that others have? I personally don't care who listens in on my calls, the most they could get is a few innuendos between my wife and I, but I suppose this would be a pretty big deal for some people, like governors who can't keep their pants on or people working with confidential information.
 
Sprint. Ugh it's terrible, and after being a loyal customer for 8 years they want to charge me a $200 early termination fee with only 3 months left on my contract. So ridiculous.
 
ive had t-mobile for about 6 years now and ill be paying the $200 early termination fee (dont really care either) to switch. t-mobile has been slacking in the past year and hasnt really offered anything new. there last big thing was the blackberry pearl/curve (dont care for the sidekicks). and i dont see any reason to stay with them.
 
brandonzar said:
I personally don't care who listens in on my calls, the most they could get is a few innuendos between my wife and I, but I suppose this would be a pretty big deal for some people, like governors who can't keep their pants on or people working with confidential information.
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I think you really need to rethink your opinion on this. I don't think I've ever said anything on the phone that would've been a big deal if someone heard, but that's completely missing the point. This is a constitutional law they're breaking. If you care about our country at all, then the crimes they've committed should be absolutely appalling to you!

Just because the constitutional rights have been violated against practically every single US citizen but in a way that doesn't affect you personally, you think that means it's not worth you caring about it? Our constitutional democracy is being turned into a totalitarian oligarchy right before our eyes and few people seem to care.

I'm gonna be honest, I find attitudes like yours disgusting. I'm not saying you're a bad person, but your current views are very self centered and short sighted.

How badly do our rights have to violated before you'll care about it?

Is our country worth so little to you?



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When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.



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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...
 
If I were getting the 3G, I would be leaving TMo. However, that is not happening because I am sticking to my unlocked first-gen iPhone :p
 
I'll be leaving alltel, providing my family has enough money to afford the iPhone. (family plans ftw) I love alltel dearly because its cheap and I have 20 unlimited calling numbers, but the crappy selection of phones and the lack of iPhone is enough to get me to switch.
 
I'm not in the US, but after 7 years with Vodafone I'll be going to whichever carrier offers prepay first.
 
motulist said:
I think you really need to rethink your opinion on this. I don't think I've ever said anything on the phone that would've been a big deal if someone heard, but that's completely missing the point. This is a constitutional law they're breaking. If you care about our country at all, then the crimes they've committed should be absolutely appalling to you!

Just because the constitutional rights have been violated against practically every single US citizen but in a way that doesn't affect you personally, you think that means it's not worth you caring about it? Our constitutional democracy is being turned into a totalitarian oligarchy right before our eyes and few people seem to care.

I'm gonna be honest, I find attitudes like yours disgusting. I'm not saying you're a bad person, but your current views are very self centered and short sighted.

How badly do our rights have to violated before you'll care about it?

Is our country worth so little to you?



-----------------------------



When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.



-----------------------------



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...
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Ouch that is some pretty harsh criticism over what was meant to be a joke, but from reading your posts I guess you take life pretty seriously. I am a firm believer in the constitution and politically active, as I said in the post I can see why some people would need their privacy protected. Someday I am sure that I will also need privacy due to the nature of the career that I am pursuing. What I really meant to imply is that I try to live my personal life in a way such that I wouldn't be embarrassed if it all came into public knowledge. I find your attitude equally disgusting in that you have such a serious attitude about life that you feel the need to attack me for something I obviously wrote as a joke. Next time I feel the need to be humorous in a post I'll try to use more laughing smilies so that you don't get confused.

:rolleyes::D:D:D:D:p:):eek:
 
I will be leaving T-Mobile USA after being a customer since July 06. Ive had the sidekick 3 (ugh) since then, and T-Mobile has had an EXTREMELY poor phone selection, mainly due to their slowness in releasing 3G. I'm tired of all the best phones completely missing T-Mobile (Iphone, Blackberry Bold, etc.), so I'm finally making the switch on the 11th.
 
I won't be getting the iPhone (and I'm not sure if I will in the future), but I would be leaving T-Mobile if I did so.
 
leaving alltel.

they have good plans, iv just had very bad experiances with them though. Plus the iPhone is just to amazing to pass up. We are paying our early cancellation fees on each of our family plans.

We are actually planning on joining my friends iPhone plan (turning a single into a family plan) and we will save some money in the process.
 
brandonzar said:
Ouch that is some pretty harsh criticism over what was meant to be a joke, but from reading your posts I guess you take life pretty seriously. I am a firm believer in the constitution and politically active, as I said in the post I can see why some people would need their privacy protected. Someday I am sure that I will also need privacy due to the nature of the career that I am pursuing. What I really meant to imply is that I try to live my personal life in a way such that I wouldn't be embarrassed if it all came into public knowledge. I find your attitude equally disgusting in that you have such a serious attitude about life that you feel the need to attack me for something I obviously wrote as a joke. Next time I feel the need to be humorous in a post I'll try to use more laughing smilies so that you don't get confused.

:rolleyes::D:D:D:D:p:):eek:
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Oh please, you don't know the first thing about me, and apparently online you're a terrible judge of character.

I'm constantly joking around and I always greatly enjoy laughing at the absurdities of life. But if you don't understand that preventable major disasters are worth being serious about then I just hope you aren't in a position to make any significant decisions in the world.

If you think it's not a big deal that our country's most fundamental principals are being completely violated and destroyed, then I feel sorry for you. I guess you're too busy playing with your shiny new toys to realize that the price we're paying for it is the elimination of our constitutional rights.

Bread and circuses.

Enjoy.
 
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