What's your current mobile provider?

[gekko513]

Hmm... very Anglo-American centric poll...

I'm back with Tele2 after a couple of years with Chess.

I've stuck to Netcom the entire time.

 

[asxtb]

Japan: DoCoMo and Vodafone/Softbank
Cancelling DoCoMo soon. Too expensive and terrible coverage indoors. It's sad with they have to set up antennas inside buildings just so people can use their phones.

 

[mkrishnan]

It's sad with they have to set up antennas inside buildings just so people can use their phones.

Come use a cell phone in the United States sometime for a whole new regime of suckiness.

I just actually, funny that you mentioned that, got an e-mail saying that the hospital system got a contract with Sprint and that they would be doing this with out buildings to enhance coverage. I'm not sure if T-Mobile did something similar, but I do know that until a month ago, the service in my hospital complex was awful, and now there are significant new areas where it works.

Then again I stuck with T-mobile so I could have an exceptionally cute but fairly dumb phone, because it matches my personality.

 

[Clydefrog]

US Cingular. No problems good reception and GSM

 

[~Shard~]

SaskTel sounds as if it's from Saskatchewan or merely Saskatoon.

Yep, the province of Saskatchewan. It's basically the Apple of Canada - Bell and Telus are like Microsoft, the big behemoths, however SaskTel is always ahead of them innovation, etc. wise. It's a great company!

 

[Eraserhead]

Orange UK, a nice network with pretty good coverage (and far too many free texts as well, I get 1000 each month...)

 

[Jaffa Cake]

UK: Virgin pay-as-you-go.

It's been dirt cheap for me because I collect the stamps for buying CDs and the like, and spend the resulting vouchers on the airtime I need. I've only spent £10 out of my own pocket on airtime in the past three years, so I'm pretty happy with them.

 

[StokeLee]

At the moment T-Mobile. UK

My first contract ever was O2, then Orange,, but T-Mobiles new FlexT tariff is fantatsic.

 

[imacintel]

Yep, the province of Saskatchewan. It's basically the Apple of Canada - Bell and Telus are like Microsoft, the big behemoths, however SaskTel is always ahead of them innovation, etc. wise. It's a great company!

Not quite. Apple is the Apple of Canada. Bell and Telus are those idiotic big companies that like to rip you off.

 

[~Shard~]

Not quite. Apple is the Apple of Canada. Bell and Telus are those idiotic big companies that like to rip you off.

Alright, use whatever analogy you prefer then to represent the big dumb slow-moving companies versus the smaller "underdog" company that is always ahead of them. Personally, I thought Apple vs Microsoft was an apt one.

 

[apachie2k]

U.S. : t-mobile

D.R. : Orange

F.R. : Orange

 

[fblack]

Cingular stinks...

Started w/AT&T wireless--support stunk but my phones worked w/out problem. Cingular bought them out and forced me to buy new phones for whole family (razr). They said old ones wouldnt work on their network, even though they were working. I now cant get coverage and I am on my 3rd razr because they keep dying. Pretty soon I'm gonna change cause I cant take it anymore.

 

[tedrjr03]

alltel

 

[w_parietti22]

I would've chosen Cingular but my dad was doing consulting work at T-Mobile when I got my phone so we went with them. Service is fine in my area but if we go out of the major city on a road trip It doesnt. I always check if Cingular has service in that area once mine goes out and it usually does.

 

[apfhex]

Awesome! Hey, I was wondering, my sisters live in Lamorinda/Walnut Creek in the East Bay. Is T-Mobile any good there? I want to switch to them and I visit my sisters quite frequently.

No idea, I'm north of the Gate. All my trips to the south bay have resulted in perfectly good reception though. Such a densly populated area, I would be surprised if it was otherwise.

Cingular acutally has the best coverage in my area, but not $10 more a month worth of reception. Besides, head far enough west in the county (where some friends and family live) and there's no reception from anyone at all.

 

[gauchogolfer]

My provider isn't in the poll:
Bouygues Telecom here in France. It's fine, I have the Carte Nomad plan and pay as I go, since I rarely use my phone. Coverage is good, even in the hinterlands.

 

[iMacZealot]

No idea, I'm north of the Gate. All my trips to the south bay have resulted in perfectly good reception though. Such a densly populated area, I would be surprised if it was otherwise.

Cingular acutally has the best coverage in my area, but not $10 more a month worth of reception. Besides, head far enough west in the county (where some friends and family live) and there's no reception from anyone at all.

My sister started at a college out there about five years about and they told her that Sprint was the only one that worked there, although Verizon was okay when I went out there. The service looked pretty good for T-Mobile when I looked it up.

 

[iBlue]

UK T-Mobile. I had Verizon in the US.

 

[extraextra]

Started w/AT&T wireless--support stunk but my phones worked w/out problem. Cingular bought them out and forced me to buy new phones for whole family (razr). They said old ones wouldnt work on their network, even though they were working. I now cant get coverage and I am on my 3rd razr because they keep dying. Pretty soon I'm gonna change cause I cant take it anymore.

We had AT&T wireless too, no one at Cingular told us to change. Only when I changed my phone about a month ago did they say, "oh, you're still on the AT&T plan, we'll change it!" I've never had a single problem with Cingular, I have 700 minutes/3000 text messages o) plan.

I would suggest a Nokia phone, they always work for years and years.

 

[MacNut]

Been with Sprint since 2000, good coverage in CT and Sanyo phones are the best. Had a Samsung and the signal strength was weak at best.

 

[Pittsax]

Yep, the province of Saskatchewan. It's basically the Apple of Canada - Bell and Telus are like Microsoft, the big behemoths, however SaskTel is always ahead of them innovation, etc. wise. It's a great company!

Maybe it's an Ontario thing, but I'd have to add Rogers to your list of M$ phone companies. I don't have any problems with them, but they seem to own everything here in Toronto.

 

[mkrishnan]

Maybe it's an Ontario thing, but I'd have to add Rogers to your list of M$ phone companies. I don't have any problems with them, but they seem to own everything here in Toronto.

So I'm embarassed to not know this... but does Canada not have national service providers (i.e. a company that offers services in at least all the major Canadian markets across the provinces and territories) for mobile phones like the US and the UK do?

 

[iRachel]

I have cingular, which I've had since I first got a cell about 5 years ago. No complaints.

 

[zflauaus]

Sadly enough, Verizon.

I just got my own line (I'm 15) on May 26 (?) and am on my second E815. I'm almost ready to go on my third.

I live in a town served by Verizon, T-Mobile (1 Tower), or First Cellular. I live in the woods, where reception goes to die on a liveliness scale. I anywhere from 1-4 bars, depending where I'm at, usually 1. I drop data connection quite frequently, and they charged some of my "IN" calling under peak minutes. Factor in the outragous text prices, bad wait lines at CS, and the fact that Verizon has crippled my beautiful E815, and ugh.... Let's just stop there.

 

[amateurmacfreak]

US Cingular. When I was in the western side of the country earlier this summer I was about to kill my phone, especially when I know other people with Verizon and Sprint had service. I was all annoyed and told my parents that we had to swtich to Verizon or something when we got back, even if we did have to pay out of contracts. Anyways though, that was teenage melodrama. Even though my phone is the worst in the world... Cingular isn't too horribly awful and the coverage is good in most places.