[ale] OT: Cell service provider recommendations

[Charles Shapiro]

BYOD is good.  I'm a big phan of Swappa.com ( http://swappa.com ). I've
gotten a couple of phones from there with no troubles so far.

-- CHS



On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I went to the TMobile store yesterday and the guy there told me that
> TMobile will be running things after the merger and that Sprint management
> will be out. He figures it will be middle of next year before the merger
> can happen with regulatory approval and such. He also said that their LTE
> coverage will soon improve as they bought some towers from Verizon (V sold
> them, supposedly to entice the FCC to make the spectrum auction more
> favorable to V, but that didn't happen in the end).
>
> If you are considering BYOD, take a look at the One plus One. It is
> supposedly pretty awesome, works with TMoble LTE and costs $350 with 64Gig
> (no Micro SD card slot though). General availability is supposed to be
> middle of next month.
>
> TMobile has some phones with no $ down, you pay $12-26/mo and own it at
> the end (also no finance charge). For an additional $10/mo you join their
> "Jump" plan that allows you to trade in and upgrade after 6 months. The $10
> also covers insurance in case of lost/stolen/damaged phone (but you'll have
> to pay something towards the replacement).
>
> On the whole, I'm quite happy with TMobile, except for the update to my S4
> they pushed out a few months ago, dang phone hasn't been right since!
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Tom Freeman <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 16 Jun 2014, Byron Jeff wrote:
>>
>>  On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 04:45:50PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>>
>>>> Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>  <<snip>>
>>
>>  Smarter money seems to be be buy your own device outright.
>>>
>>>  +1 for whatever it is worth.
>>
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