Kill AT&T
 

I hate them... for oh so many blood boiling reasons... which I will not bore you with for a change... instead I ask the following:

Is there anyway to move to another provider... and keep our existing phones? I have the samsung magnet and Flint has the Blackberry Curve. It isn't that I'm attached to my phone... I just don't want to buy a new one... oh... and I don't want to be stuck in a contract. I want a plan that gives me everything for less than what AT&T offers.

IF I don't get away from the bastards at AT&T I'm either going to stroke out or go down there and open fire.

Call verizon and ask. That seems simple enough. I hate my company because the new phone I just got a few weeks ago shuts off at will - ITS will. As in whenever the hell it wants. It also has less reception and is a PITA to use. IF I could, I would go back to my dumb phone that actually worked! This "smart phone" takes 4-5 clicks to do just about anything that my old phone did in 1-2.
So much for being so smart.

Oh and I have fat fingers which makes this stupid ass touch screen virtually useless. Its almost impossible to hit one of their microscopic little squares without hitting another at the same time. The only positive is it has a keyboard.

Sorry - Didn't mean to hijack your thread.
Oh -I got away from AT&T a few years ago. A friend is still fighting over $200 of totally BS charges with AT&T.

I think phone companies are like insurance and politicians ... they're all the same and they all suck.

Sorry.

Sprint is better than Verizon. Verizon is better than ATT.

If you're not in a contract with ATT you can jump, but you'll have to get new phones. We got a really good deal on blackberry curves.

I think there are people who can 'crack' a phone.... but i'm not sure of the legalities of that...or what support you would get from your new provider.

If you use your phone for talking and texting, and nothing else, you can't beat a simple tracfone. Far, far cheaper.

Do you have a contract with AT&T and if so, will they let you out of it and keep the phones? My understanding is some phones are compatible with other providers and some are not. You'll need to call the other providers and ask, unless you want to research it online.

A friend of mine works for Sprint and if I signed up through a corporate account, I could get more than the $200 cost of the phone back in a $100 port transfer credit and a $115-235 smart phone trade-in credit and have a 1 year contract vs 2 years.

OMG I am scared to hear about what happened. I am working late and turning my phone off...

And no, you cannot have a concealed handgun permit. :::puts husbandly foot down::: The foot has spoken.

We don't have a contract...

I don't want to have to buy a new phone... I want it free. I'm also not willing to pay a fee to transfer my number.

I text and talk... not that it wouldn't be nice to have internet, but not necessary. Flint needs full service... internet, e-mail text and talk.

I don't want to call and talk to anyone... I don't believe that the individuals that answer your calls ever have the correct information... I believe with all my heart and soul that they tell you what they need to tell you to get you to go with their product... they are therefore not trustworthy. I like stories of personal experience... I find them to be more reliable sources of information than sales people.


Honey are you really working late or just afraid of me?

LJ... you selling phone service... or you recently obtained a new phone through a provider... which one? Sorry... just looking for clarification... If you are working for one... I'd deal with you ;-)

How do you expect to get a free phone without a contract? that's crazy talk!

Ok... you got me there.... if I could get an HONEST figure as to what my monthly bill was actually going to be... and not some BS that ends up being about $100 off... I would consider a contract... providing it cam with 2 free phones or the ability to use our existing phones.

You should never have to pay to transfer your number, the laws on that changed in the consumers' favor a few years ago. I switched last Christmas from AT&T to T-Mobile. I got a Gravity 2 for free, better connectivity, a lower monthly bill, and got to keep my number. But I agreed to a contract. I don't know what sort of options you would have without one.

Go to Verizon and ask a manager what they will give you to switch. We had att for 4 days and went into a verizon store to see about a phone with a better vibration (my husband needs it where he works). The manager asked me what it would take and I told him free phones (3 of them) and a discount on service. We got it and the phones we got are great.

ch'yeah, ok....

Cricket can flash phones if it doesn't have a sim card.That means you can supposedly use another carriers phone on their network. I have not actually done this but I have heard about it. I don't know if it gives the same functionality either.

I use Boost mobile.No contract and unlimited everything for about 50 dollars a month and 10 dollars extra for international. I don't believe they flash phones but they do sell the blackberry curve.
Over cricket it is a better service as far as getting a signal when it counts but for a no contract unlimited service it's great. No hidden fees. I do miss my green samsung messenger. If my finances to not go south I might get the Samson rant which is similar.

AT &T uses sim cards.

So seriously LJ... do you sell phone plans?

Then maybe you can unlock the phone and use the cheapo sim card in it.
Just 2 cents.

:facepalm:

I knew I shoulda left that part out.

No, I work for a Nissan Dealer. I sell the sizzle.

not the zazzle?

that and this

samsung magnet is a gsm phone...That one is stuck with w/ att unless you can find a carrier unlock.

I was a cingular phoner turned att through the merge. I have no problems w/ att thus far. But I am on the now old data plan. Plus my employer offers a 30% discount off my monthly tab.

very nice Jim!

What about the shizzle, Lumberjizzle?

Affording it isn't the problem.... its the principle of it all. I doubt Flint would willingly accept a trac phone... he is an IT guy... he needs high end and full service

Whew, what is with you women ;)

ISP connection sitting at ~.25 Mbps ... Yay!!!1

Had to put Pooka on the phone to schedule a tech on Monday, I hear her saying "My husband is the IT Dept for a hospital--I hope nobody DIES before then!"

I know you don't want to hear this, but I've had good experiences with AT&T's US-side customer service ... the Indian Chick screwed things up something fierce, but a nice American (or American Sounding) supervisor fixed the problems in nothing flat, and gave me some bucks off the bill for my inconvenience.

I was a Cingular customer, and whatever Cingular was before it was Cingular.

AT&T was Cingular was AT&T (in name only)

I thought what was left of MCI turned into Cingular...

AT&T (in Basking Ridge NJ) was a company self destructing for decades. For example, they sold off the Long Lines division that installs cross ocean fiber optics just as the demand was getting hot. Anything from that AT&T was crap.

Eventually, they bought two cable companies to provide phone direct to the customer. Nobody in AT&T knew anything about phones. Nobody notices the wires could not do what AT&T bought them to do.

Eventually AT&T sold off everything two years later for half (about $70 billion) of what they originally paid. At this point, AT&T was only three months from bankruptcy. And not letting their outside Board of Directors know how bad the company really was.

Southwest Bell bought what was left of AT&T for pennies. Basically, all that was left was a cell phone company and the name. Southwest Bell renamed itself AT&T.

The name AT&T has a long history of meaning crap products - to the far fewer who actually knew technology. No company in the history of free market economics did more to destroy shareholder value than what AT&T did to NCR - according to The Economist. AT&T (Basking Ridge) was that bad a company. Notice how many consumers never knew it.

There's an App for that...
 

Or maybe not.
If you can't find an appropriate App for your Android phone, you can build your own. No really, seriously, you can.
App Inventor for Android, from Google labs, shows you the way.

And when you're a rich and famous APP guru, don't forget us little people.;)

I've decided we are switching to Verizon come hell or high water... I'm soooo done with AT&T this switch is for their saftey as well as my emotional and physical well being... .

How soon can you get home honey?

You wanted me to stop at the hardware store, so you tell me.



HITLER.

Verizon... then hardware store... those are your marching orders

As long as he's out, you might as well have him get you that Mac you wanted. :D

no Pete - No McDonald's for her - Shes on a special diet.

And I've lost 23lbs... whoo hoo. We are making this a family trip.

I ƒucking HATE this new piece of shit phone and the fact that I have wasted an entire goddamn evening on replacing something I was happy with. I liked my "old" Blackberry 10,000 times better. The 8530 is cheaper-feeling, and the entire front surface is one big, shiny smudge gatherer. I obviously like HARDWARE, i.e. keyboards, as I am using a Blackberry, why would I want these shiny, smudgy pseudo-buttons that you can't feel with your thumb? I liked the Blackberry "trackball" ...I hate the "touchpad" navigator. I just downloaded Google quick search...why did I have to poke around and find it in my "downloads folder" click and select "move to" my home folder? I goddamn downloaded it because I wanted the motherƒucker, didn't I??? By the way, how is it a "HOME SCREEN" when I have to click the menu button from the desktop to get to it? The HOME screen should be the HOME SCREEN. You know what the menu button USED to have on it? The CALL VOICEMAIL option. You know what I still haven't figured out how to do, and I've had this thing for 2.5 hours? CALL MY GODDAMN VOCIEMAIL. I actually looked up how to do this on the Blackberry website, for this model, and the instructions didn't work.

This is not a ƒucking TOY device for me, I am going to have to use this bullshit thing every day. I hate changing shit. I liked my old phone.

This is ƒucking BULLSHIT. Now I have to go DOWNLOAD some bullshit "theme" just to get my normal, ICON layout back??? Are you shitting me??? Under layout I have "Zen" or "Today" ...no Icon. I hate it, I ƒucking hate it. The keyboard is smaller, for basically no reason. It didn't come with a case. Why the ƒuck didn't it come with a case??? Am I supposed to just walk around holding it all day???

yes

I'm getting a kick out of these rants this morning. Flint's is even better than monster's.

Damn flint - that sucks. I am NOT a smart phone person. I want my flip phone back. I call, I text. Thats all I need.

Isn't voicemail just holding down the "1"? I believe its a preset speed dial number. Perhaps not.

You mean the 9530, the Storm, the Blackberry touch screen phone?

Maybe that's why the instructions didn't work? ;)

I feel for you ƒlint, but new hardware always comes with some frustration. As I recall you had similar issues when you first got the previous phone. I'm wondering why you didn't stick with what you know?

Obviously the Verizon salesman hit him with a poison blowdart as he walked into the store and oversold him.

You didn't have to switch both of your phones. You could have happily stayed with AT&T and just switched Pooka, you know.

Had a Curve 83xx, this is a Curve 85xx. It was free. Didn't anticipate this being a downgrade.

As I said last night we can go back and switch u back today... But I would rather have a track phone than ever deal with ATT again. So... It is ur choice.. Can u live with this phone or not... If u can't the onnly option is to take it back today. End of story. I want you to be happy . This new plan has much better coverage and gives us more for forty less per month.

Verizon's got to have some phone that works for you, flint. Go swap it out.

And that some phone is the Droid X.

If that Droid has a touch screen I can tell you he won't like it...

Honestly I think the big issue here is CHANGE... he really isn't a fan of it...

Pooka, same thing happened to me. I switched us from Verizon to AT&T and my husband HATED his phone. First the vibration mode isn't strong enough, then the ringer isn't loud enough and then of course nothing was where it was supposed to be. So I had us walk into the Verizon store to find a phone he would like and luckily we did and with a huge break and a better deal than AT&T.

men :facepalm:

Its good to know it isn't just me...

I realize he was happy before, but it required me dealing with AT&T customer service on a REGULAR basis... and my frustration level has reached unsafe levels for my emotional well being... the phone was fine, they were not...

For $40 less we now both have data plans... the network is better... I have yet to find a dead spot int the house... and I've looked believe me... outside of... it isn't exactly the same and I have to set it up... I fail to see how this change is not for the better... other than the positives don't impact Flint.... except of course that there will be $40 more dollars in the budget to play with.

fixed that for ya :blush:

Indeed!

Here is a bit of irony for you or maybe it's strategic warfare....

A hacker has developed a way for people to change (jailbreak) their iPhone4 so it will operate on G3 networks...
thus their owners can move to other (non-AT&T) networks and utilize Android apps on the iPhone4.

The government has given legal approval of this "jailbreak" software.

But another hacker has developed an (deceptive) Android app that secretly "collects a user’s browsing history, text messages, your phone’s SIM card number, subscriber identification, and even your voice mail password. It sends the data to a web site" in China.

Conspiracy theorists will say it's a secret strategy for Apple and AT&T to hold on to their market share.
But it is getting a lot of discussion among Apple developers.

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Apple investigating jailbreak vulnerabilities
followed by ...

SECURITY ALERT: Android wallpaper app that steals your data was downloaded by millions

AT&T was created by Satan...

Yesterday our internet speed was 1.24 again... worse than dial up... Flint please advise when a good time to transition this final service away from the the devil. I will make necessary arrangement... I know it will involve you reconfiguring stuff on your end so I didn't want to just thrust it upon you.

he he he - she said thrust.

Where I live, Alltel is being converted over to AT&T because Verizon can't have a monopoly. Anyway, we'll be given a choice to switch to AT&T or go with another carrier at the end of the year. I'm trying to decide... I really like the Alltel service I have. so I hope AT&T is just putting its name on what is already good service and not changing anything drastically.

The reason is because suck it, obviously. I just did a vanity search for 'ƒlint' and you're the lucky winner.