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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. Simple Reason.... by Tsali · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn Leonids.

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  2. Verizon by jzs9783 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Can you hear me?" "No" "Good!"

    1. Re:Verizon by frodo+from+middle+ea · · Score: 3, Funny

      Operator Can you hear me now ?
      user Yes
      Operator No ?
      user YES...
      Operator So you can't hear me ?
      User YES
      Operator So can u or can u not ?
      User Can I or Can I not what ?
      Operator WHAT ?
      User WHAT ?
      Operator Yes ?
      User Yes ?
      Operator Hello ?
      User Yes
      Operator Good
      User Good What ?
      Operator WHAT ?
      User Oh never mind ..
      Operator GOOD..

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  3. Oops by neurostar · · Score: 4, Funny

    *comes home and tears open the packaging on a brand new cellphone that came with a 8 year service contract, then reads /.*

    damn...

  4. Simple Solution by scotch · · Score: 4, Funny
    No one is holding a gun to your head to have a cell phone. We got along years just fine without them for years. Very few people really need them - the rest of you just seem to use them to show off, be annoying, or create hazardous driving conditions.

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    1. Re:Simple Solution by nanoakron · · Score: 3, Funny

      I am with you brother! Let us abandon these soulless 'horseless buggies' and return to simpler times of man and animal, united by the bond of reins.

      You dick.

      -Nano.

  5. What T-Mobile sounds like at 6pm...everyday! by toupsie · · Score: 3, Funny
    "We're sorry, all circuits are busy. Please try again at a later time."

    Because of this, I end up not using all the minutes I buy every month on my phone. Which means two things, I am not getting what I am paying for and T-Mobile is losing out on raping me on overage charges. So its a two way loss.

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  6. Re:Government spectrum scam by runlvl0 · · Score: 4, Funny
    > 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. How lucky you are about having a religion that gives you an answer to everything. > If the government was to let the free market allocate the spectrum, one company would have ended with a de-facto monopoly on the spectrum.
    Basil Exposition: The cold war is over!
    Austin Powers: Well! Finally those capitalistic pigs will pay for their crimes, eh? Eh comrades? Eh?
    Basil Exposition: Austin... we won.
    Austin Powers: Oh, groovy, smashing! Yea capitalism!
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  7. Re:nope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well, move to Tampere. Never had a problem since we don't have metro/subway :)

  8. ob Verizon by bastion_xx · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hello, can you hear me now?

    Didn't think so.

  9. services by shirameroix · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hell, I would pay someone to MAKE the service terrible in my libraries and classrooms on campus.... its freakin ridiculous.