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Cell Phone Service Degenerates Further

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the going-down-down-down-down-going-down-down-down dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Almost everyone I know has been complaining about their cell phone service lately. These companies continue to add more subscribers, overloading their networks to the breaking point. They hold you hostage by not allowing you to switch providers and won't invest in new infrastructure. Customer service ratings are dismal for all the major providers. Doesn't look like it's going to improve any time soon."

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  1. I mean really... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Cry me a fucking river. If the pitiful assholes who have little better to do than yack on their fucking phones while driving/shopping/eating/fucking can't get good service... boo fucking hoo. Hang up and drive morons.

    1. Re:I mean really... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
      Ah, and I thought not getting a good reception on your work cellphone was the problem.

      Face it, you luddites. Wireless communication is the future. How is someone talking on his cellphone (while shopping/eating/fucking) any different from him doing that with a friend sitting next to him?

      Maybe the cellphone is still a status symbol in the USA and you're just envious 'cause you don't have a one.

    2. Re:I mean really... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
      Because the guy on his cell phone has no sense of volume? He's just about screeming because the fucking thing can't amplify his voice coreectly or he has the impression that is the case? It's whole lot different, and if you haven't noticed, you're probably the one on the goddamn phone. There are also good reasons why talking on the cell while driving is much more dangerous than talking to a person sitting next to you while driving. Let me know if you're interested, you ignorant fuck.

    3. Re:I mean really... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
      He's just about screeming because the fucking thing can't amplify his voice coreectly or he has the impression that is the case?

      Not a problem here.

      Maybe it has something to do with your shitty analog network.

  2. I have no problems... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I don't own a cellphone and probably never will.

    Hell, I can barely afford a land-line. In between my rent, my existing phone line, my taxes and what I owe on my Comp.Sci diploma (which is basically a very nice piece of sheepskin toilet paper), I can't afford half the shit most of your Bloatdotters bitch about.

    Oh my! Oh me! My cellphone can barely get a signal! Oh goodness! Oh gracious! Oh bellyaching me! My Pentium XXXVIII with 2048 terabytes of RAM is hopelessly behind the curve!

    I'm sitting here on a Pentium 90 with Windows 95, a dialup that gets 50K if I'm LUCKY, and a browser that can barely load these damn pages only because I have images turned off by default. "Oh, computers are cheap enough for everyone." Bullshit. The $350 I'd spend on a bare-bones new PC would mean not eating for a month; there are days when my main choice of meal is which flavor of ramen ($1 for 10 at the local bodega, a real bargain) I'm going to be boiling up.

    Welcome to the new poverty, and quit your bitching. Not everyone feel obliged to weep at your overindulgence.

    Linux? On this machine? With what CD burner? Give me a fucking break.

  3. FUDdish by Gothmolly · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I have AT&T, live in the Northeast Megalopolis, and have great connections, and never drop a call. Perhaps you live in a bad area, or have a bad provider. And why does "an anonymous reader" get posted to the front page, with such an obviously crap story? Is this "Whinedot" ?

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    I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
  4. Re:Oops by windex · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What kind of moron signs a cellular service contract for more than a year, is what I want to know. :)

  5. Re:Government spectrum scam by dismal+scientist · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >> If the government was to let the free market allocate the spectrum,

    >Yeah. Free market will solve everything. Bandwidth ? Free market. Energy ? Free market. IP laws ? Free market. Pollution ? Free market. World hunger ? Free market. Greed ? Free market.

    Yeah. Goevernment will solve everything. Bandwidth? Government. Energy? Government. IP laws? Government (hey they can right all the laws they want) Pollution? Government. World Hunger? Government. Greed? Government (ever actually read a porked bill?)

  6. Re:Its not the service, you're all buying tiny pho by nanoakron · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Oh my God, you're so right! Now I see the problem with my connection that's been there all along - It's nothing to do with a failed deployment policy or massicve underinvestment, mismanagement and attempted monopolisation; it's actually ALL MY OWN FAULT for not sticking to one of those suitcase sized thingies they had in the mid-80's.

    You dick.

    -Nano.