Cell Phone Provider Lies

[Dan]

What are cell phone providers in Europe and Asia like? Frankly I'm getting fed up and pissed off with what we have here in North America. Who ever came up with the idea of forcing customers into long term contracts? It's ridiculous. Do you have a contract when you get cable tv or the internet? You pay for what you want.

Anyways, so I signed up for my first cell phone plan here in Canada with Bell Mobility. They have pretty decent coverage across the country although a bit older network. At first the guy tells me I can get a great plan. $22 a month because I'm a student. Then after a while the guy talks about a 911 fee and so I ask him straight out, what's the whole thing going to come to. He kind of gives some ambiguous answer of ummm roughly 30 dollars a month after "connection fees" which he conveniently forgot to tell me about.

Well I figure 30 dollars a month is still decent and so I sign up for this 2 year contract. First 4 months my "free weekends" actually cost $10. It takes a while to sort that out and eventually the whole thing comes to $35 a month.

The final thing which just today pissed me off is that they now charge me $15 to change my phone #. It's not so much the $15 but the fact that the salesman specifically said that there was no fee whatsoever for changing the phone #.

 

[Datrix]

... and that ladies and gentlemen, is why I don't have a Cell Phone.

 

[AmishSlayer]

Some cell phone companies are out to screw you.

Recently Sprint put up a new tower in town and they configured it wrong...so every call lots of Sprint customers made was a roaming call from like St. Cloud, MN - so it was charging them roaming long-distance fees for every call.

Peoples' bills went through the roof. They didn't do anything about it. They waited 'till customers came to them, and even then you couldn't get money back over the phone or anything, you had to goto a nearby Sprint store to get refunded the money.

My brother was one of those people. The guy at the sprint store was cool about it but he told my brother that some lady had to drive all the way to Grand Forks from some tiny town (like over an hour drive) to get $2,000 back from the sprint store.

EDIT: I'm happy with Verizon though. I pay $40/month for 500 minutes, free nights/weekends and to anybody that has Verizon. No crazy fees or anything. No problems so far....*knock on wood*

 

[xLostx]

verizon is the devil

 

[LittleB]

I have Cingular, and so far there ahsn't been any hidden fees.

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

I have Cingular, and so far there ahsn't been any hidden fees.

As do I, haven't had an issue, other than my dumbass going on the internet too much and downloading ring tones. I need to shoot myself, costs an arm and a leg for internet on my phone. >_< :angry:

 

[Stigmata]

What about Virgin Mobile? I haven't heard any horror stories about them, so far...

 

[evil^milk]

telcel in mexico is teh win.

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

What about Virgin Mobile? I haven't heard any horror stories about them, so far...

My friend used the pre-paid Virgin mobile, well one of them. So she never has any money so she never got to really use it...Was a waste, I don't like the pre-paid type of cellphones, because you have to transfer money into the account when you run out of minutes or your out of service.

 

[Darkknighttt]

they say that because the salesperson wants to make a sale, and that you'll never find out who it is lol.

 

[Danimal]

Hasn't anyone heard of a pre-paid phone?

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Pay as you go all the way
I'd get a contract if I had the money to spare though.

 

[Shodan]

My dumb sister downloaded a ringtone from crapster, they charged her £20 for it!

Her own fault, she should of known not to buy stuff from people who make such atrocities as "crazy frog" and "nessie the dragon".

Bastards.

 

[Pressure]

My dumb sister downloaded a ringtone from crapster, they charged her £20 for it!

Her own fault, she should of known not to buy stuff from people who make such atrocities as "crazy frog" and "nessie the dragon".

Bastards.

Holy crap, that is an outragous price.

 

[Maxi]

Cell phone providers are awesome here in Finland, everyones network covers around 95% of the country, great reception everywhere, VERY cheap call prices, VERY high competition between providers.

 

[Tr0n]

Cell phone providers are awesome here in Finland, everyones network covers around 95% of the country, great reception everywhere, VERY cheap call prices, VERY high competition between providers.

Yea...but one of our states is the size of finland alone.

It's a whole harder for our cell phone providers.

 

[Maxi]

Well Finland is very sparsely populated, so they have had their work cut out for them getting the entire country covered.