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How's Your Cell Service?

Posted by Hemos on from the kinda-cruddy-actually dept.

Coldeagle writes "Well for those of us who are fed up with your current leash...Cellular phone providers... Here is an interesting article on various US cell phone providers and how their service adds up."

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  1. Check! by vladid · · Score: 4, Funny


    Can you hear me now??


    GOOD!

  2. I don't have a cell phone. by Black+Parrot · · Score: 2, Funny


    You insensitive clod!

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    1. Re:I don't have a cell phone. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You can have mine! Count yourself lucky.

  3. How's My Cell Service? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Overpriced...

    1. Re:How's My Cell Service? by AKnightCowboy · · Score: 2, Funny
      Give your company's service desk a call. Explain that you think you're paying too much and ask the service rep if there's anything they can do to help you.

      I just did. They laughed, said no, and hung up. I think Dogbert runs my cell phone company. :-(

  4. Here, in Switzerland... by mirko · · Score: 2, Funny

    I remember being called while I was on the top of the Schilthorn (the Piz Gloria is the restaurant in which G. Lazenby plays "At Her Majesty's service").
    So I guess the coverage is quite decent, even far up the mountains. :)

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  5. to cell or not to cell by selderrr · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll probably get modded redundant, but I still don't have a cellphone. And so far, except for 2 occasions where I got stuck in traffic for several hours and got late to pick up our kids from school, I have never even thought "damd, I wish I wasn't so stubborn and bough that cellphone"

    I honestly go whooptie-flip over those 15-year olds crammed together in the bus messanging or calling eachother, yelling in my ear, poking with their elbows and tripping over anything smaller than a shepperd-dog (I recently saw a teen running along the road while phoning. Neither he nor the road-sign pole had the immense fun I had when I saw him smack his forehead fullspeed into the metal, and then the back of his head into the asphalt as he bounced back. The silliest thing was that when I tried to help him get up, he could only utter 'mind your steps... my phone is on the ground somewhere overhere' The guy was nearly blind from the impact for christ sake !)... Not to speak of the near-constant phone ringing all around me whenever I step out the door. At a bus station for instance. Sometimes it's funny to just watch everyone grab for their phone (women in their purse, machos grab their crotch as those things seem to live in simbyosis with testicles)...

    That's perhaps one reason to buy a cellphone : stand at the busstation with a friend, and secretly call him. He doesn't pick up. I hang up after 3 rings and repeat. Mr. Cleese would be proud of me.

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  6. Most times...just like ewoks by emo+boy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have Sprint PCS and I would say over 50% of the time the people on the other end just sound like Ewoks. It could be the service quality or it could just be that I'm talking to Ewoks but I mean what sounds more likely...Eworks or the quality of service?? Yeah Ewoks...those damn ewoks.

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  7. Isint this a poll question? ;p by Comsn · · Score: 3, Funny

    you insensitive clod! my tinfoil hat blocks cell service!

  8. Can you hear me now? by miketang16 · · Score: 3, Funny

    No.

    At least according to those results.

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  9. Re:You get what you pay for by feed_those_kitties · · Score: 2, Funny
    Verizon is significantly more expensive than most other US-based providers.

    Well, someone has to pay for all those annoying commercials...

  10. Re:T-Mobile isn't great, but good enough by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    alt.cellular and children have lots of info.
    I checked alt.cellular and it was quite informative. However, when I went to the playground down at the end of the block and talked to some of the children, they didn't eve seem to know that cell phones needed cell towers to work. So I think I'll recommend just sticking with the Usenet and forget asking kids.
  11. My cellphone service is PERFECT. by Beardo+the+Bearded · · Score: 2, Funny

    When I want to make a call, I ask one of my friends, "Hey, can I use your cell for a minute?" Either that or I use a pay phone. Remember those? 25 cents gets you a ten-minute call, and no roaming charges apply.

    It's that easy. No contract, no phone to buy.

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  12. Re:You are violating Sprint's TOS by CuriousGeorge113 · · Score: 2, Funny

    uh, but you won't get caught unless you d/l gigs a month...something most people don't do.
    Or you admit to doing it publicly on Slashdot and a Sprint rep just happens to stroll through . . .

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