Quality Cell Phone Service Shopping Tips
The best money saving practice for buying new cellular phones and service plans is to buy from a dealer, not through the cellular provider directly. Dealers compete against each other with lower prices than the actual cellular providers do.
The reason for this is that dealers are much smaller and rely solely on cell phone revenues. The actual cellular providers themselves have many other fronts, battles, and sources of revenue, so price satisfaction in any one sector is not always available.
For Example: AT&T or Verizon has cellular, but also have local phone service, long distance, satellite, and so forth. A dealer only sells cellular; that’s it. Dealers usually will offer just about every existing cellular provider’s services so the convenience of one stop shopping is an additional feature.
Online dealers are the most convenient source for shopping and comparing plans. You can shop low dealer priced plans from online and save even more.
A great and smart idea, before you buy into any cellular service plan, is to have a friend or family member let you borrow their phone(s) for a day at the least. By doing this you can travel to all of your frequent hotspots to make sure you will receive decent signaling with that cellular provider on a regular basis. Just taking someone’s word for it is not good enough, especially if they are trying to sell you the service. Try a test drive; it’s your smartest bet. Remember, purchasing the best plan will be worthless if you can never use your phone. Coverage is the first factor to any cellular plan … period.
If you have friends with a diverse set of cellular providers, try each one out to determine which one is most reliable for your daily activities. Take your friends feedback as well; they will be very helpful on subjects of billing, quality of service, and other important consumer information.
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This article was written by Aaron Siegel of TopSavings.Net which offers residential, business, and government serviced Cell Phones.
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I've looked at the Vu, and to a certain extent I like it, but I've heard very mixed reactions to the touch screen on the Vu. If you want to watch TV on your phone, by all means, get the Vu, but if the Shine has all the features you want, and is cheaper, I'd go with that one. Even though the Shine is a little heavier, I've felt it and it feels like a more solid phone and the screen is gorgeous.
I'd suggest going into a store and playing with the Vu, you don't want to get wrapped into a contract with an expensive phone that you might end up hating.
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Hi there:
The cell phone companies change, new ones appear every month, and they buy out each other constantly, so it is difficult to make an accurate list !
However, you do not say where in the world you are, so here is a brief list:
CELL PHONE CARRIERS
3 River WIreless
ACS WIreless
ALLTEL
Alltel #2
ANDHRA Pradesh AirTel
AT&T
AT&T Free2Go
AT$T Pocketnet PCS
BEELINE
Bell Atlatic
Bell Mobility Canada ( Different Provinces, Different Owners )
Bell Mobility Canada #2 ( If you move, you CANNOT move the phone!!)
Bell Mobility Canada #3 ( you end up paying 3 years AND buy a new phone )
Bell SOUTH ( Blackberry )
Bell South , #2, #3
Bell SOuth Mobility
Blue SKy Frog
Bluegrass Cellular
Boost
Bouygues Telecom, #2, #3
BPL Mobile
Carolina West Wireless
Cellular One
Cellular One East Coast
Cellular One South West
Cellular One West
Cellular One PCS
Cellular ONE #1, #2, #3, #4, #5
Cellular SOuth
Century Tel
Chennai RPG Cellular
Chaennai SkyTel / Airtel
Chennai Bell
Cingular, #2, #3, #4
Clearnet
Comcast
Comviq
Corr Wireless Communications
Delhi Aritel
Delhi Hutch
Dobson Cellular Systems
Dobson-Alex Wireless
DT T-Mobile
Dutchtone / ORANGE-NL
Edge Wireless
EMT
Escotel
FIDO
Genion
Goa BPLMobil
Golden Telecom
Green's Communications
GTE WIreless, #2, #3
Gujarat Celforce
Houston Cellular
Idea Cellular
Inland Cellular Telephone
Itineris
Kerala Escotel
Kolkata Airtel
Kyivstar
LMT
Maharashtra BPL Mobile
Maharashtra IDEAL Cellular
Manitoba Telecom Systems
MCI Phone
Megafon
Meteor , #2
Metro PCS, #2
MicroCell
Midwest WIreless
MiWorld
MobileComm
MobileONE
MobileFone
Mobility Bermuda
Mobility Tanzania
Mobtel Srbija
Motient
Movistar
MTS
Mumbai BPL Mobile
MUMBAI ORANGE
NBTel
Netcom
Nextel, #2
Nextel BR
NPI Wireless
Ntelos
O2, ( M-mail, Online, Prepaid )
Omnipoint, #2
One Connect
Online BEEP
Optus Mobile
Orange (Fr Telecom, Mumbai, NL/ Dutchtone )
OSKAR
P&T Luxembourg
Pacific Bell
PCS ONE
Pioneer / Enid Cellular
PLUS GSM
Pondicherry BPL Moboile
POWERTEL
Price Communications
Primco
Promtel
Public Service Cellular
Qwest
Rogers AT&T Wireless
ROGERS Wireless ( CDN )
Safaricom
Satelindo GSM
SFR France , #2, #3
Simple Freedom
SMART Telecom
SMF/ Schuylkill Mobile Fone
SouthernLinC
Southwestern Bell
SPRINT PCS
Suncom
Sunrise Mobile, #2
SureWest Communications
SwissCOm
T-Mobile ( #2, Austria, Germany, UK)
TalkLine
Tamil Nadu BPL Mobile
Tele2
Telefonica Movistar
Telenot
Telenor
Telia Denmark
TELUS
TIM
TRITON
UMC
Unicel
Uraltel
US Cellular, #2
US West
Uttar Pradesh Escotel
Verison, #2, #3
Vessotel
Virgin Mobile, #2
Vodafone (Germany, Italy, Japan, #2, #3, Spain, UK)
VoiceStream . T-Mobile
West Central Wireless
Western WIreless
Wyndtell
Yenisev Telecom
Note that in the big cities, there are hundreds of smaller carriers that only provide service in one small area. I can't list them all.
Hopefully you can choose the ones locally, and compare pricing.
good luck
robin
iPod touch is probably your best bet right now. Dell is supposed to be coming out with a similar Android type device. Also you can get a smart phone that has WiFi and don't bother activating cellular service with it.
The difference between pre-paid and contract is that with pre-paid you don't sign up for anything and there is no account or bill that you have to pay every month. Contract is that you pay for a certain amount of minutes and services that you may or may not use every month and that bill comes every month.
As far as costs go, there isn't a big difference from what I've seen. To make sure you get the best rate, you really need to shop around and check out what people are selling…it all boils down to how many cents per minute you're going to be paying.
My recommendation is for you and your husband to get a contract so that if you ever need it, you won't have to worry about running out of minutes at an inopportune time. For the kids, I would recommend pre-paid. This is because, its been my expereince (I'm a teacher and I hear lots of stories) that most kids use their phones a lot either calling or text-messaging. This can run up an extremely high cell phone bill that you'll be stuck with. The worst story I ever heard was one of my students running up an $800 bill in one month from overage charges.
Also, before you do anything, check with your current cell phone provider and find out if you're under contract and if so what the early termination fee is (usually $150). This might make you're decision easier for now. As for pre-paid companies, I have heard that Boost and Virgin are pretty good companies.
Hi Blue
The best place to get your answer from people that live in Tucson is here
http://www.howardforums.com/search.php?searchid=5883359&q=tucson%20coverage
After you decide on the provider, take advantage of the 'test periods" offered, that way you are seeing first hand how good or bad coverage is in your area and home
Cheers