Boricua65
join:2002-01-26
Puerto Rico
| So far so good...
Even though I'm with a different carrier (VZW), I haven't had to deal any of that. One way around that fee (if it's possible) is to buy an unlocked phone from eBay and just insert a SIM card and voila activated without any fees.
I bought the LG CU500 for my best friend from eBay unlocked. The phone is for AT&T but when my friend inserted the SIM card, it was active. He loves the phone and has been working for him since.
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dentman42
join:2001-10-02
Columbus, OH
 ·AT&T Midwest
| I think the best response is "You're going to charge me a fee? In that case, forget it. You'll get my number port request later today."
Absolutely ridiculous on a GSM provider where all you do is put your SIM in the phone you want to use. I'm on their prepaid service and I've swtiched phones several times without even needing to contact them. Hell, that "handset upgrade fee" is more than I pay per year to keep my service going ($100 90 days after I got the starter phone gave me 1000 minutes and all minutes thereafter as long as I don't let it expire are good for 365 days. So every year I buy the cheap $10 refill, add 35 minutes and renew the carryover for another year. 4th year in and I still have over 700 minutes). Not quite the coverage of Verizon but far better than Sprint and AT&T in this area, and I rarely lose signal. |
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majic07
@rr.com
| So let me ask you this, after you tell them your port request will come through later make sure you also tell them that how smart and slick you are for getting out of paying att $18 for the upgrade but paying the new company you choose $36 to activate there. Real smart dude!!!
Now let me ask you this, If a wireless company didn,t charge activation and upgrade fees, give away free phones or discount them close to free, may I ask you where do you think the funding to improve their network comes from? Let me guess you are going to say the monthly service fee that you pay. That maybe be true if you are a local ma & pa wireless company or still operate an anolog network,but when your network spending in one state is larger than the GNP of most small countries you need to get the funding else where to stay on top.(kust look at what they spent in NY, over a Billion dollars) Lets face it technology is not cheap and if you want the best that technology has to offer you are going to have to pay to get it.
The fact that you are prepay doesn't even give you the right to even comment on this subject. |
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