What Is Your Cell Service Provider?

In my opinion Verizon is the best.
I have tried just about every cellular provider and
they have the best coverage.

I can use it anywhere.

Can you hear me now :)

I have Verizon. Family plan with three lines. Chose them about 9 years ago and then just stuck with them ever since.

Costs about $100 per month. Is it "worth it"? Probably not...

I don't even have a phone.

And what's the deal with the prepaid thing? I'm in an argument with Parental Unit F about whether I could get phone service for the $5-10 a month you say you get (plus the initial cost of the phone, of course).

I pretty much use the phone for nothing more than communication of my current location, and I suppose it would come in handy for whatever emergencies arise. To give you an idea of how little I talk, my record for longest phone conversation is a whopping 15min. Most of what I'd be doing is playing with the phone's camera :P.

Oh, you're talking about cell phones. I thought you were asking about battery cell service and wanted to know what kind of service could be performed on a battery?

I have T-Mobile prepaid. I give them $100 per year and they give me 1000 minutes. The minutes I don't use roll over. Last year I only used about 100 minutes so right now I have 1838 left. (My typical phone call: "Hi, Honey. I'm running about 10 minutes late. I'll meet you at Protos. Okay? Love you. Bye". This happens about twice a month.) This is the best deal on the planet for people like me who mostly use it for emergencies and don't need roaming off of T-Mobile's network.

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To keep this mildly relevant, I suggest turning off the cell phone while ebiking. Or at least not trying to answer it. This has happened to me twice. There is barely enough time to get stopped safely and pull the phone out of wherever. I nearly missed seeing a car once when I was fiddling with it. Not good.

Well thought i'd jump in here, I have to agree with Gowens; Verizon is definetly the best service around.
Personally I do not experience any problems with dropped calls and I have had their service since 2001 :)
Their customer service and technical support is also awesome.
I can even get reception in some parts of the tunnels (underground) of the Bart stations :)
I personally don't care for cingular who was once At&t.
Oh and especially Sprint who also merged with Nextel
I personally can't stand Nextel, that is a company that you want to stay away from.
They have the most dropped calls and since I have a Nextel for work, that's what I experience.
blah. But that's just my opinion ;)

How many bars do you have????

Okay never mind I'll shutup now 8)

Actually AT&T's the new service - Cingular is the old service - and my cell phone says "Cingular" on it and I'm rather happy with them. Not ecstatic. Not that I would generally recommend them to anybody. Just happy. I don't know why everybody complains about them, they seem real decent to me.

e.g. I was hiking at Multnomah Falls park near Portland OR last summer ... this is well outside Portland, and way up a mountain, in a side valley pretty far back. Not only was I getting reception, but I got a phone call while up there.

Trying to thin out a list of cell phone service providers, and wanting to know the popular ones.

I've T-Mobile prepaid; 25¢/minute calls, 15¢ per text message, incoming or outgoing. I pay about $5-10/month.

Looks like a good deal, but not very practical if one doesn't have a home phone. I'm on a group plan through Verizon for about $45/mo with unlimited to others in the group, and lots of minutes that I don't use. The service is usually pretty good, but not perfect. I haven't tried another service to compare.

You don't have a home phone? Seriously? Whoa. Freaky.

Anyway, must look into prepaid service providers. *groan* Meaning that I'll be going through a lot of terms and conditions info. At least I'm better at interpreting it than most.

You don't have a home phone? Seriously? Whoa. Freaky.

Uh.. I haven't had a 'home phone' since 1999. I've kept the same cell phone number over the years since then and despite moving several times since then everybody can reach me because it's the same phone number. What is the attraction to having a regular phone line? None that I can see.

Well, okay, there is one - I sometimes work remotely and still have to call into meetings at work. An hour meeting uses up a large portion of the anytime minutes in the cell phone plan, and it's easy to run out. I bought into Vonage VoIP service, it gives me a widget that acts for all intents and purposes like a regular phone line, I can use this to call into meetings w/o using cell phone minutes, and the illusion of being a regular phone is good until I do some heavy web surfing while on the phone. Since VoIP service runs over my Internet service using Internet bandwidth makes the phone call suffer.

If I move again then the VoIP number can go with me.

Really, what's the advantage to having your phone number tied to where you live?

What's the advantage to having to change phone numbers every time you move?

What's freaky is the times I leave my home phone at work. Since my cell phone is my home phone it's possible to leave it somewhere accidentally.

You don't have a home phone? Seriously? Whoa. Freaky.

It has been a while since I checked but a phone line where I live is something like $15/mo plus taxes (not really legit taxes, but BS taxes), plus the hookup fee, and any applicable deposit. And that doesn't include long distance which is extra. So overall it might come to $23/mo. On top of that, you need to buy the phone. Of course, cell service doesn't compare to a LAN line due to the way it is compressed (cell service is kind of like VoIP from what I understand, in that it is broken down into packs and compressed, and data is multiplexed with other cell phone users data).

With a cellphone that doubles as my home phone I can be contacted anytime, and I don't need to worry that much about how much I use it. I have broadband internet, so I can use Skype to make outgoing calls to phones anywhere in the US from my apartment for about 2 cents/min.

Oh sorry, I just realized I never answered your question:

You asked "What is your cell service provider?"

My cell service provider is the company (legal business entity) that provides me with cell phone service (but only when the planets align).

Now, why were you asking?