[ale] OT: Cell service provider recommendations

[Charles Shapiro]

Heh!  Next week I'm moving my brand-new HTC One M8 over to the latest CM
dailies.  I'll let you know how it goes.  The T-Mobile M8s allow factory
unlocking of the bootloader, so I'm thinking this will be relatively
painless.

-- CHS



On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Update to my cell provider:
>
> We wound up calling Customer Service at ATT and managed to get someone
> that seemed to know what they were talking about. We were able to cut our
> costs down from $340/month to $175/month for services and then about
> $190/month to include cost of 2 new phones and all the bs taxes.
>
> I wound up with the HTC One M8 and my wife got the LG Optimus G Pro which
> is more on the line of a Phablet has a really nice screen. Mine on the
> other hand is larger than my old HTC but smaller than hers. It does come
> with KitKat and hers came with JellyBean which is now updated to KitKat, so
> software wize it's now close to mine. I do have plans to switch to CM in
> the near future.
>
> Thanks all for the advice. I obviously changed my mind about to T-Mobile
> after seeing reports that it's going to be a hostile take-over by Sprint
> and Sprint's Customer Service makes ATT's look like the world's best. Also
> we were able to knock the costs down to what it would be with T-Mobile and
> similar amount of service plan.
>
> Scott C.
>
>
> On 06/05/2014 03:26 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
>
>> So we're sort of getting tired of ATT's games with pricing. We have 5
>> phones with 15Gb data and paying ~$340/month with my wife's state employee
>> discount. We're looking to bail out of ATT and go with T-Mobile's program
>> to pay contract termination fees. We can get all 5 phones exchanged for new
>> ones plus the deal only gives 1GB/phone, but I can get and extra 2GB for
>> $10. So what I'm asking is 2 things:
>>
>> 1. How is T-Mobile's service and also their coverage?
>>
>> 2. Motorola, LG, Samsung, or HTC?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Scott C.
>>
>>
>
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