For several years my cell phone provider has been Cricket.
Not the best coverage but adequate for my need until they were acquired by
AT&T. Since then the quality has declined.
The staff at the
local store has always been helpful dealing with this Latter Day Luddite grumpy
senior citizen. That means a great deal to me.
Last month, with no notification, AT&T raised my bill
$20.
Enter Comcast/Xfinity, the only internet provider for my
building, sending out mail bait for service at a lower rate for seniors. Being
cheap, I went to the local Xfinity store to check it out. I didn’t qualify.
The young man helping me out started talking about cell
phones. I appreciate a good salesperson, and he was good. Seems their cell
carrier is Verizon and they had a deal.
My autistic son in Seattle and I now have new 5G (whatever
the hell that is) phones and my monthly bill is 46% lower, locked in for two
years. Our combined data use is so trivial we will not exceed what the plan
provides.
The company for whom I’m an agent provides a tablet with
their proprietary software installed. Their carrier is AT&T. I seldom see
more than two bars and uploading results is frustratingly slow.
Am I wrong assuming Ma Bell is AT&T? Ma Bell always
sucked and AT&T faithfully keeps the tradition alive. Pox on them.
12 comments:
I 2nd the Pox. And use prepaid T Mobile, they're pretty much rubbish too, btw.
We may have to go back to letter writing, runners and couriers on horseback.
More reliable, secure and far less annoying. Speed is a small sacrifice.
Yep, pretty much... That acorn didn't even bounce off the roots.
LSP
We can use cursive and the new generation won't be able to read it.
OldNFO
That is a new saying for me - like it!
Yes, we purged our AT&T accounts about 6 months ago, after having had some kind of relationship with them (bad ones) for the better part of 50 years.
Remember when Ma Bell wouldn't even let you own your own telephone? Circa 1985, that changed with the breakup of Bell Telephone, but the 'Baby Bells', to include AT&T continued their bad service to this day.
Our household had an AT&T landline, dedicated fax line, business line, all problem ridden through the years. We also had AT&T cell phone service. And to add more insult to our multiple AT&T injuries, our DirecTV service was bought out by, who else? AT&T.
We dumped all of these accounts. We haven't pad a dime to AT&T for over 6 months now. Life is good. Or at least better, now that AT&T is not robbing us blind every month.
Yes, I will add another pox onto the AT&T house. They soundly deserve it.
@Fredd--
Sounds like a plan. Would be interested to hear who you replaced them with, if you don't mind sharing that info here.
Fredd
I've heard horror stories about Sprint and others. Hoping for a better result.
RHT: we got rid of fax and land line phones, obsolete technology, replaced them with cell phone and use scanning tech over the internet.
DirecTV: ditched them, old tech, satellite dish is still on our roof, AT&T said we could keep it, it's ours. Lucky us. Went with Hulu, streaming over the internet. Half the cost. We couldn't be happier with our service.
I'm 100% Internet and cell. May be one of the few who doesn't own a TV, don't want one, and seldom watch other folks TV. Also, don't do movies, in theaters or on a TV. Personal choice, not financial.
WSF, during the Indian Mutiny we used Greek. Natives couldn't read it.
My, how we've devolved.
LSP
In my case, grudgingly. I'm so old I remember programming 80 column punch card sorters.(And resented doing that)
I worked in telecom as a second career for most of 25 years. Back then most folks take on Ma Bell was
"We don't care. We don't have to, we're the phone company."
I remember that. There are always exceptions. 2003-2005 I organized 5 day car sales at many different locations in CO. Often the site was a vacant lot. We needed two phone lines, minimum. Rarely did I have a problem with the local techs getting service for us.
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