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My contract with AT&T is up. So I'm shopping around.
AT&T prices have gone up. For two smart phones with text and data I'm between $159 and $189 per month.
$159 is with a two year contract and me paying an additional $199 (or more) per phone.
Currently I'm leaning towards making the break from the iPhone in favor of the Samsung Galaxy 4, and the Samsung's are $199 for the GIANT one or for the one that is a little bigger than the iPhone.

Then I noticed a 'Smart Talk' phone store inside of a Walmart. They offer a no contract service for $45 a month that is unlimited talk, text and data with a caveat that once you have used 2.5 gigs of data you would be throttled back to 2G speeds. I do not use my phone to watch movies or stream so that I have not used over 2 gigs of data in months. So this plan would be a nice fit if it is what they claim, and if I had service all over this area like AT&T does currently.

AT&T offers T-Mobile customers $450 to switch
Now I see where AT&T is offering $450 in credits to any T-mobile user who switches to AT&T. What BS. I've been with them 15 years and get nothing. Not even a break for renewing another two year contract but any T-mobile user gets a huge sign up bonus. So I checked to see what T-mobile offered and they have quite the deal also, but they do not have coverage in my area. They are predominately in the bigger cities. To bad. They look a whole lot better than AT&T.

What other plans are there for talk, text and data. I do need all three. Any suggestions?
 
Doc said:
My contract with AT&T is up. So I'm shopping around.
AT&T prices have gone up. For two smart phones with text and data I'm between $159 and $189 per month.
$159 is with a two year contract and me paying an additional $199 (or more) per phone.
Currently I'm leaning towards making the break from the iPhone in favor of the Samsung Galaxy 4, and the Samsung's are $199 for the GIANT one or for the one that is a little bigger than the iPhone.

Then I noticed a 'Smart Talk' phone store inside of a Walmart. They offer a no contract service for $45 a month that is unlimited talk, text and data with a caveat that once you have used 2.5 gigs of data you would be throttled back to 2G speeds. I do not use my phone to watch movies or stream so that I have not used over 2 gigs of data in months. So this plan would be a nice fit if it is what they claim, and if I had service all over this area like AT&T does currently.

AT&T offers T-Mobile customers $450 to switch
Now I see where AT&T is offering $450 in credits to any T-mobile user who switches to AT&T. What BS. I've been with them 15 years and get nothing. Not even a break for renewing another two year contract but any T-mobile user gets a huge sign up bonus. So I checked to see what T-mobile offered and they have quite the deal also, but they do not have coverage in my area. They are predominately in the bigger cities. To bad. They look a whole lot better than AT&T.

What other plans are there for talk, text and data. I do need all three. Any suggestions?
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I have had Verizon or its predecessors since 1987 due to its greater coverage, but the next phone will be a Wally World plan which uses Verizon towers and costs half as much for twice as much service.

It pisses me off also that companies are wiling to do far more to gain a fickle customer than to keep a loyal one.

Comcast did the same thing after my contract ran out, then offered me far more incentives after I switched to switch back.
 
I got a sweet deal up here with my service provider. They had a good smart phone package on a 3 yr contract for the samsung galaxy s3. I gave them my sons student id number to use and got the plan for $50 a month for unlimited texting. 6gb data, free cell to cell calling. Can't remember the minutes since I hardly make calls on it anyways.
 
We dumped our Verizon and AT&T cell phones and went to the Walmart Straight Talk phones and unlimited plan priced at $45.00 a month for each phone. In our area they use the Verizon towers and we get better coverage than the AT&T available. We paid up front for our phones and are very happy with the low cost cell service. I see no need to go back to the big providers and will stay with Straight Talk as long as the service is good. The only down side is you have to talk to their people if you have a problem and some of them have little knowledge. We just do the automatic renewal via credit card each month and have no contract. It seems to work for us very well and we are saving about $75.00 per month from what we did with AT&T.. We are in our fourth year with Straight Talk and have no real complaints. :biggrin:
 
Yes, very interesting Andy. I'd never heard of H2O Wireless. They sounds a step above the Wallmart offering. If their service is better they are sure worth a look.
 
From what I read in that article they are using at&t towers, so everything should be there same for you.
 
Adillo303 said:
From what I read in that article they are using at&t towers, so everything should be there same for you.
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Yeah, I saw that. Smart Talk works much the same. you can tag onto AT&T towers or onto Verizon, whichever your phone works with. Sounds to good to be true ... I might get one of each to cover all bases. Some places on the river Verizon works best. One of each for my wife and me would be the perfect solution.
 
Doc...we went with consumer cellular herein MO. and so far we are right happy with them......might give them a look!!!
 
ki0ho said:
Doc...we went with consumer cellular herein MO. and so far we are right happy with them......might give them a look!!!
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Never heard of them. I'll check to see if they are in my area.

I read the beginning of the consumer reports article but did not sign up so I could not read the rest. I've read some reviews by consumer reports for products that I had first hand experience with, and their views seemed biased and wrong to many times for my liking.
 
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