T-mobile contract is up soon... Whos using what.... Just want to get a feel for which one to go with so I can utilize mobile to mobile..


Chime in... Thanks..:eyebrows:

I use AT&T, so all my calls with everyone else using AT&T are free. How long was your contract with T-mobile? Don't they give free mobile to mobile mintues?

att cingular

i'm with t-mobile...

att cingular

att ftw, nothing beats roll over mins! :rofl:

att ftw, nothing beats roll over mins! :rofl:
yeah i have over 1k ill never use

yeah i have over 1k ill never use

me too w00t! hey at least u'll never have overage charges!

im thinking of going to the minimun plan for a month to see if i can cut down on that

Unused rollover mintues expire after awhile. I belive it's after a year that they start to expire. So whatever you didn't use this month will expire a year from now.

if you do a lot of texting like with your side kick, and haven't been having problem with the service... stick with t-mobile and stay out of contract. but if you do find that you're having problems with drop calls and needing minutes, cingular.

Well for the most part, T-mobile has been pretty good for me. The side kick is not the bane of my existence. If it wasn't for the IM capabilities. I'd take it out the field and beat the sh*t out of it with my bare hands...

Ref the scene from Office Space with the printer.

So I'm getting a Curve, which means that I need a new Data plan. I am eligible for an upgrade on like the 20th of April.. So i'm just trying to see if its better to stay with T-mob, or start up a new one with Cing.. Which is essentially the same, they are both going to be a 2 yr contract..

Well for the most part, T-mobile has been pretty good for me. The side kick is not the bane of my existence. If it wasn't for the IM capabilities. I'd take it out the field and beat the sh*t out of it with my bare hands...

Ref the scene from Office Space with the printer.

So I'm getting a Curve, which means that I need a new Data plan. I am eligible for an upgrade on like the 20th of April.. So i'm just trying to see if its better to stay with T-mob, or start up a new one with Cing.. Which is essentially the same, they are both going to be a 2 yr contract..



internet is the only factor when going to a data plan

All services have competitive plans in terms of minutes, text messages and data. While the service of signal and text messages are pretty much the same, its the internet speed that separates them.

At the moment Sprint and Verizon which are the fastest. Cingular is only good in their g3 zone. T-mobile is only good when it is in Edge territory which is BFE

These are conditions I would look at since I would like to get the best out of my service.

internet is the only factor when going to a data plan

All services have competitive plans in terms of minutes, text messages and data. While the service of signal and text messages are pretty much the same, its the internet speed that separates them.

At the moment Sprint and Verizon which are the fastest. Cingular is only good in their g3 zone. T-mobile is only good when it is in Edge territory which is BFE

These are conditions I would look at since I would like to get the best out of my service.

I agree with you, on that. The most important thing is my data plan. out of the 1000 mins I have every month. I average like 80 mins used when the bill comes.. But I have like 3-4K in text messages (this includes everything that has to do with data, thanks gods its unlimited.).

I dunno about switching to Verizon, they don't' have the phone and Karen is the only one I know that has it. My frequent callers all seem to have T-mob... Sprint.. eh, I dunno.. I know even LESS people with that lol...

Meh.. I dunno, for the most part, I really only surf the web on my phone when needed, for like those times when we are on the fly and need to look something up. I IM like mad tho... So definitely need the unlimited Data for the black berry.

I agree with you, on that. The most important thing is my data plan. out of the 1000 mins I have every month. I average like 80 mins used when the bill comes.. But I have like 3-4K in text messages (this includes everything that has to do with data, thanks gods its unlimited.).

I dunno about switching to Verizon, they don't' have the phone and Karen is the only one I know that has it. My frequent callers all seem to have T-mob... Sprint.. eh, I dunno.. I know even LESS people with that lol...

Meh.. I dunno, for the most part, I really only surf the web on my phone when needed, for like those times when we are on the fly and need to look something up. I IM like mad tho... So definitely need the unlimited Data for the black berry.

Well at my work, I carry an At&t phone as well. I compared the internet speed between the At&t and T-mobile. I would have to say that At&t is double the speed of T-mobile. When comparing it to a co-workers sprint phone, her's is triple the speed of T-mobile.

With 1000 minutes a month, with no mobile to mobile, would you use up your minutes? If no then roll over is pointless for you.

Text messaging plans are pretty much the same, but it seems you are more text dependent. There is no real incentive for texting unless its unlimited. If there was a texting plan that was free mobile service to mobile service, I would say stick with T-mobile because majority of your friends have that service. Too bad there isn't.

For my 2 plans I have with T-mobile all with data, unlimited text and 500 minutes, my cell phone bill on average is $100 a month. So lets just say its $50 per person. Does that fit your budget?

Keep in mind when you go to a smart phone, it would be pointless for you not to run all the options. So getting unlimited text, data plan with no cap is a must.

Curve is great, however it doesn't include 3g and works on edge. The Iphone is coming out with a 3g ver. Which will be significantly faster than the edge, and I'm sure Blackberry will soon follow.

tmobile: BlackBerry Minutes & Mail Enterprise - 69.99 includes voice.
att: BlackBerry® Personal - 35.00 on top of your voice plan.

if speed and internet isn't a MUST have i say stick with tmobile since you are happy with them.

the best i can tell you is if you get t mobile i wont leave you a v mail

it doesnt let you do the press 1 short cut

Well at my work, I carry an At&t phone as well. I compared the internet speed between the At&t and T-mobile. I would have to say that At&t is double the speed of T-mobile. When comparing it to a co-workers sprint phone, her's is triple the speed of T-mobile.

With 1000 minutes a month, with no mobile to mobile, would you use up your minutes? If no then roll over is pointless for you.

Text messaging plans are pretty much the same, but it seems you are more text dependent. There is no real incentive for texting unless its unlimited. If there was a texting plan that was free mobile service to mobile service, I would say stick with T-mobile because majority of your friends have that service. Too bad there isn't.

For my 2 plans I have with T-mobile all with data, unlimited text and 500 minutes, my cell phone bill on average is $100 a month. So lets just say its $50 per person. Does that fit your budget?

Keep in mind when you go to a smart phone, it would be pointless for you not to run all the options. So getting unlimited text, data plan with no cap is a must.
i spend 100$

1000 mins

unlimited internet text mobile to mobile

i spend 100$

1000 mins

unlimited internet text mobile to mobile

how often do you go over your 1000 minutes?

i spend about 100 bucks for a family plan with 3 lines 550mins, rollover and unlimited internet w 200 text on my phone. My question is do you mind if you don't have reception in certain areas?

for BB texting is consider as data right? I think that's what made it different from the other Smart phones.

i spend about 100 bucks for a family plan with 3 lines 550mins, rollover and unlimited internet w 200 text on my phone. My question is do you mind if you don't have reception in certain areas?

he said they they've been pretty good, damnit read :P

Well for the most part, T-mobile has been pretty good for me.

i spend about 100 bucks for a family plan with 3 lines 550mins, rollover and unlimited internet w 200 text on my phone. My question is do you mind if you don't have reception in certain areas?


how much would it cost to add unlimited text since this is Ubermaus's forte

how much would it cost to add unlimited text since this is Ubermaus's forte

if texting is consider as data which i believe it is.. the price i quoted are unlimited data.


tmobile: BlackBerry Minutes & Mail Enterprise - 69.99 includes voice.
att: BlackBerry® Personal - 35.00 on top of your voice plan.

the only bad thing would be unlike tmobile where you can hook up your bb to your computer/laptop or whatever, they charge you for it with att but there are ways around it :).

BlackBerry® Personal Plans
Plan options include text, IM or video messaging, and/or tethering options*. Tethering enables you to connect your wireless device to your laptop via Bluetooth or a connection cable. Certain usage restrictions may apply. See Explanation of Rates and Charges for details.

this is for att, i can't find where it says texting is included for the tmobile plan.

Well at my work, I carry an At&t phone as well. I compared the internet speed between the At&t and T-mobile. I would have to say that At&t is double the speed of T-mobile. When comparing it to a co-workers sprint phone, her's is triple the speed of T-mobile.

With 1000 minutes a month, with no mobile to mobile, would you use up your minutes? If no then roll over is pointless for you.

Text messaging plans are pretty much the same, but it seems you are more text dependent. There is no real incentive for texting unless its unlimited. If there was a texting plan that was free mobile service to mobile service, I would say stick with T-mobile because majority of your friends have that service. Too bad there isn't.

For my 2 plans I have with T-mobile all with data, unlimited text and 500 minutes, my cell phone bill on average is $100 a month. So lets just say its $50 per person. Does that fit your budget?

Keep in mind when you go to a smart phone, it would be pointless for you not to run all the options. So getting unlimited text, data plan with no cap is a must.

why is your **** so cheap? if you're using the t-mob family plan, and you mean 500x2=1000 minutes, thats already 70$ for the plan alone. unl data is $30/line, blackberry is $30/line, unl. text is $20 for all phones under the family plan. I pay $160 for 3 lines, 1000 min, 1 blackberry, 1 data, +$10 3rd line. your **** is like $40 cheaper, how???

how much would it cost to add unlimited text since this is Ubermaus's forte

add 20 bucks

however the problem is that
on att plans works like this
Personal
450mins w5000min nights and weekends with rollover = 39.99 +35 bucks for unlimited data/text + tax ~85
t-mobile is cheaper

Family with two lines
550mins w unlimited nights/weekends with rollover =59.99 (1st line) +9.99(2nd line) + 35 unlimited data/text + tax ~115ish

i still believe t-mobile is cheaper

Yeah I checked both T-mob, and ATT, the ATT route would be like 52.99 just for the features, on top of the regular phone plan..

I called T-mobile and I told them what I wanted, and they told me something like, around 60-70 (if forgot the exact amount) a month for unlimited blackberry data (so thats email and web), unlimited text (which i think is where instant messages falls under), and like the regular phone plan thats like 39.99 a month which is 600 mins/free nights and weekends.

I did forget to ask if that was with free mobile to mobile, but then even if it wasn't, i mobile to mobile is like 5.99 a month addtional. Then theres the "My Favs" thing with tmobile which is unlimited to the 5 people you set that you call the most..

Either way, I'm paying like 70 bucks now for my sidekick plan which includes everything. I figured we don't really talk on the phone much. I mean our little group mostly communicates via text and IM. We don't seem to yab on the phone much with each other like women with crap like "oh I bought these shoes today, and these matching panties, yadda yadda yadda".. our conversations are usually on IM, or in person. The only times we really talk on the phone is to coordinate outtings or give each other directions or something.

So yeah, that what I was thinking. I'll definately have to call t-mob again and confirm all this

why is your **** so cheap? if you're using the t-mob family plan, and you mean 500x2=1000 minutes, thats already 70$ for the plan alone. unl data is $30/line, blackberry is $30/line, unl. text is $20 for all phones under the family plan. I pay $160 for 3 lines, 1000 min, 1 blackberry, 1 data, +$10 3rd line. your **** is like $40 cheaper, how???

maybe he got it on an earlier promo? but does that data plan for tmboile for bb include texting? because Iiam not sure if it does and one play i search for says that you have to pay extra on top of the bb data plan.

why is your **** so cheap? if you're using the t-mob family plan, and you mean 500x2=1000 minutes, thats already 70$ for the plan alone. unl data is $30/line, blackberry is $30/line, unl. text is $20 for all phones under the family plan. I pay $160 for 3 lines, 1000 min, 1 blackberry, 1 data, +$10 3rd line. your **** is like $40 cheaper, how???


LifePlaza Wireless

Shady Chinese people with incentives.

...

maybe he got it on an earlier promo? but does that data plan for tmboile for bb include texting? because Iiam not sure if it does and one play i search for says that you have to pay extra on top of the bb data plan.

if it's an earlier promo, t-mobile still charges +30 data, +30 BB, +20 fam unl. text , that means he's paying $20 for 1000 minutes. amirite? :noidea:
well, looking at my bill, i still see text msg sent/rcvd on my BB line, does it mean it counts against your text msg?

if it's an earlier promo, t-mobile still charges +30 data, +30 BB, +20 fam unl. text , that means he's paying $20 for 1000 minutes. amirite? :noidea:
well, looking at my bill, i still see text msg sent/rcvd on my BB line, does it mean it counts against your text msg?


http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q248/lifeplaza/phoneplan.jpg

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q248/lifeplaza/phoneplan2.jpg

if you notice my internet is only being charged at half

how often do you go over your 1000 minutes?
i go over 300 mins once a year

why is your **** so cheap? if you're using the t-mob family plan, and you mean 500x2=1000 minutes, thats already 70$ for the plan alone. unl data is $30/line, blackberry is $30/line, unl. text is $20 for all phones under the family plan. I pay $160 for 3 lines, 1000 min, 1 blackberry, 1 data, +$10 3rd line. your **** is like $40 cheaper, how???
wtf ed you are our IT officer

and ed has three phones?

drug dealer!

supplier
warehouse
buyer

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q248/lifeplaza/phoneplan.jpg

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q248/lifeplaza/phoneplan2.jpg

whaaaaaa. ok, so are you talking about 1 or 2 lines? i thought lisa had BB?? all i know plans are $10 higher now than last year.

Services Summary
Mobile Number Total Charges
Account Charges 98.73 plan+text+tax
626-xxxxxxx 31.06 blackberry
626-xxxxxxx 30.86 total internet
626-xxxxxxx 0.87 nothing

LifePlaza Wireless

Shady Chinese people with incentives.

win

win

Ding ding!

Agreed! lol...

whaaaaaa. ok, so are you talking about 1 or 2 lines? i thought lisa had BB?? all i know plans are $10 higher now than last year.

Services Summary
Mobile Number Total Charges
Account Charges 98.73 plan+text+tax
626-xxxxxxx 31.06 blackberry
626-xxxxxxx 30.86 total internet
626-xxxxxxx 0.87 nothing


The account summary represents min and Lisa's which would be 2 lines. When Lisa got the black berry pearl, it had just came out and there was incentive to buy. There is no additional service charge for the black berry.

whaaaaaa. ok, so are you talking about 1 or 2 lines? i thought lisa had BB?? all i know plans are $10 higher now than last year.

Services Summary
Mobile Number Total Charges
Account Charges 98.73 plan+text+tax
626-xxxxxxx 31.06 blackberry
626-xxxxxxx 30.86 total internet
626-xxxxxxx 0.87 nothing
huh who is the three?


no wonder you never take my calls you have two others you take calls on jerk!

lol
i need a new phone. i want to get one of those shiny HTC's but they are $$$ ;(

I don't trust HTC; they make great PDA's but their phones for att never are 100%. They get more complaints about phone service related issues than any other PDA. They are great organizers though!

solution:

att
$39.99:450 Roll over/unlimited att cell to att cell/5,000 night & weekends (starting at 9pm)/ nation wide service (no roaming fees or long distance fees)
Iphone: $40 a month, unlimited web/e-mail/text/visual voice mail (honestly from a user, it's really nice to be able to listen to voice mails I want too and face forward)
total $80+tax ~$90/$95

I love my iphone :RockOn - not mine: , it's nice to be able to talk to you guys on here when I'm bored at work or out and about. The edge data speed honestly isn't slow enough for me to worry. If you really want speed you'll want WiFi and a laptop or regular computer. The new programs that people are going to be able to make and be release come june will let you do your instant messaging and the phone looks sexy haha.

I don't trust HTC; they make great PDA's but their phones for att never are 100%. They get more complaints about phone service related issues than any other PDA. They are great organizers though!



I have to agree. I have an T-mobile Dash which is made by HTC and it is utter garbage ever since I upgraded to WM6. Whenever I visit website, my phone will crash then turn off. I was reading on the forums there is a problem when reading codes from websites which is too much for the processor which will cause the phone to fail.

Saving up my pennies for another phone however need to look over my options.

so how easy is it to hack an iphone today?

...i just realized i have never bought or owned an apple product...

so how easy is it to hack an iphone today?

...i just realized i have never bought or owned an apple product...

Supposedly it takes less than 10 mins. There are vids on youtube.. you can search under ziphone

Most of the people here at work used that to unlock it..

so how easy is it to hack an iphone today?

...i just realized i have never bought or owned an apple product...

i think it's pretty simple to unlock since you're on t-mobile.

I don't trust HTC; they make great PDA's but their phones for att never are 100%. They get more complaints about phone service related issues than any other PDA. They are great organizers though!




haven't had any problem with my Tilt so far other than that they don't provide graphic driver for it but it's not a big deal to me.

http://www.i-club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=181111

http://www.i-club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=181111

where were you at when we were at page 1? heh

http://www.i-club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=181111

Isn't this in Norcal tho? I'm not going to be in Norcal anytime soon.

And plus, I'm sure this is for new activations. Whereas, I'm upgrading extending my contract.

Poop =-(

Isn't this in Norcal tho? I'm not going to be in Norcal anytime soon.

And plus, I'm sure this is for new activations. Whereas, I'm upgrading extending my contract.

Poop =-(

Business of the E-age


Odds are you don't need to be in person to sign up. Things are done via email and over the net now a days.

If you can buy a car over the internet, you can get a cell phone as well.

Business of the E-age


Odds are you don't need to be in person to sign up. Things are done via email and over the net now a days.

If you can buy a car over the internet, you can get a cell phone as well.

Well, If he isn't lookin for new line activations this would be cool. I'll PM him

tmobile: BlackBerry Minutes & Mail Enterprise - 69.99 includes voice.
att: BlackBerry® Personal - 35.00 on top of your voice plan.
if speed and internet isn't a MUST have i say stick with tmobile since you are happy with them.

the att $35 bb plan comes with unlimited internet and 200 text messages. $50 comes with unlimited internet and messaging, or $30/mo for unlimited internet only.

for BB texting is consider as data right? I think that's what made it different from the other Smart phones.

my messaging is separate from data. one of the reasons i cancelled my blackberry plan. they only had one blackberry plan when i signed up and that was $30 for internet only, no messaging. i added the mediamax200 instead that comes with unlimited internet and 200 msgs. i just checked my features and they don't have this option anymore. they also used to have a mediamax unlimited that had unlimited internet and messaging for $30~35/mo.

the drawback is that all the bb apps (maps, bb email, gmail app, bb msging) don't work and i can only use the internet through the medianet browser (or opera), which works fine for me. most websites have a mobile version and i check my gmail through the medianet browser.

i have the bb pearl through att and i pay $39.99 for the 450 anytime/5000 nights and weekends plus $19.99 for the unlimited internet + 200 msg plan = <$65/month

if you need a pickup in norcal, let me know. :)

Wha!

ok thank you Seri. I PM'd the guy and i'm waiting for his reply.