Why is choosing a cell phone company so vexing these days? We’re at the end of our contracts once again and are on the lookout for a new service provider. I truly feel that these service providers are only there to screw us over as much as they can without us knowing about it. Can you please offer me chocolate first????

Right now we’re with a small up and coming company Cellular South. The unlimited talk/text plan that we have with them is awesome considering that hubby uses his phones so much that he wears the keypad buttons out and I text nearly 1000 msg a month (Twitter is addictive!). However, their data plan S-U-C-K-S! To use the internet on their phones is like using a 14K dial up modem! Who has time for that these days? Most of the websites time out before they’re even finished loading. I can usually WALK to pick up my niece from school and walk back home faster than I can download the igoogle webpage on my phone.

So, we’re on the hunt again for another company. I think we’ve had services with all of the companies except for Sprint. I’d go with Alltel simply because I love their commercials (“Chad, you’re still a ding dong!” That cracks me up every time!!!). However, Alltel is not offered in Memphis. So…NEXT!

I’ve had Verizon. Couldn’t figure out a plan that suited us. Besides, they ticked me off when we moved from California and wanted to switch our phones to a Memphis number, they tagged on another two years to our contract without telling us! They have yet to explain why that would have added on another two years by simply changing a phone number and we were already out of contract with them. The fact that I wanted to change numbers and not switch to another provider would have been clue that I was going to stay. But nooooooooooo. Wonder if they can hear me now!

I’ve had Cingular. They were awesome. Then they switched to AT&T and all of the sudden, service got bad in our area. There were places on main thoroughfares that we couldn’t even get a signal! Drive down Stage Road (it’s one of the main streets here) and you’ll find that you have so many dead spots, which is really hard to believe. Then don’t get me started on my home. For some reason, I truly believe, that an extremest lived here prior to me because they put some kind of lead lining in the walls to keep me from getting a signal from AT&T! I literally had to hold on to our metal door knob while leaning out of the door with the phone held up in the air to get a signal! Imagine what my neighbors were thinking every time my husband or customer called me.

Anyway, so here we are. Trying to figure out which way do we go. It has to be one that won’t charge me roaming everytime I go to visit my dad in the sticks of Arkansas. It has to be one that I can use the internet on with no problems. It has to be one that will allow me to text my 1000+ msg a month without adding on an additional $300. It has to be one that we can easily send sthoopid pictures to each other with no problems. It has to be one that my hubby can operate his business with and not have to stress out on overage minutes and an another additional $300. The total bill has to be less, waaaaay less than my mortgage payment! hahahaha

Oh yeah, and for those of you that caught that Twitter comment, I’m bcatgray on Twitter. Look me up and send me a tweet! You tweet me and I’ll tweet you back. :-p

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