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Topic: In Light of Joe's Tweet about AT&T, Review your Service

Joe's recent tweet got me thinking:

"Thank you AT&T for being the only reliable source of internet at Shylock rate... At least it works.."

http://twitter.com/#!/Jbonamassa

I am in love with my old Blackberry Curve, but with RIM apparently intent on committing corporate suicide, I am lost as to what to do when my current contract is up.  I have U.S. Cellular (rural Iowa) for service which is great, but I'm not nuts about going to an Android phone because of security issues (the open app structure creates more security problems and many apps apparently have complete access to your contacts and such) and because the whiz-bang media stuff doesn't mean much to me.  Also, Google seems a bit Big-Brotherish to me.  U.S. Cell doesn't offer the iPhone, which to get I'd have to go to Verizon which is a lot more expensive (or AT&T or Sprint).  I don't know anyone in the area with an iPhone so I'd like to know people's thoughts on their service quality.  I tend to think AT&T wouldn't have as good of quality in rural Iowa where I live (and probably the same for Sprint?). 

I love the Blackberry's physical keyboard and reliability as a hard core email device with a more secure reputation for business type stuff like logging in and trading from my brokerage accounts anywhere.  I really couldn't care much less about all of the multimedia bells and whistles that most people seem to care about, I want a reliable and secure workhorse, not a cool toy.

Should I go with the iPhone on Verizon or stick with the newer Blackberry Curve on U.S. Cellular and hope the service doesn't go dark in the near future?

Any thoughts would be appreciated, because the online ratings and stuff seem to be poisoned by employees of each phone and cell service provider offering fake bad reviews of each other's products on their respective websites.

Anyone?

2 Reply by Rockfarmer (edited by Rockfarmer 2012-04-28 08:52:28)

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Re: In Light of Joe's Tweet about AT&T, Review your Service

RIM has announced that they plan to concentrate on business accounts.  From what I have read...If your blackberry is through your work, it should be fine.  If it's a personal device you are probably better off going to the i-phone.  My new employer is switching from blackberry service to iphone for offsite e-mail access. I got my new iphone4s on Monday.  It works fine in a large metro area where Verizon and ATT are king (my service happens to be with Verizon), but on Wednesday when I drove to our plant in central texas that is very rural...no cell service, no e-mail...no text.  I was able to connect my iphone to our plant's wireless network so I eventually got going on e-mail, but still no phone, no text.  My Verizon blackberry did work there in the past.

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See if you can get a coverage map online of the breakout of G3 and G4 area service coverage to help your decision. Even here in Socal metro, the G4 service is spotty. I use Sprint/Nextel and have holes too.
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Re: In Light of Joe's Tweet about AT&T, Review your Service

Hmmm...does this mean things have gotten better or worse at AT&T since I retired a year ago? If better, I sure wish the stock share price would go up, so I can dump what I have. Don't want to sit on it like I did Lucent, which is now a worthless stock! sad

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BluesMan wrote:

Hmmm...does this mean things have gotten better or worse at AT&T since I retired a year ago? If better, I sure wish the stock share price would go up, so I can dump what I have. Don't want to sit on it like I did Lucent, which is now a worthless stock! sad

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Dump it and get VOX. Then you have a piece of whoever is the winner.

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Re: In Light of Joe's Tweet about AT&T, Review your Service

Rockfarmer wrote:

I got my new iphone4s on Monday.

So how do you like the iPhone?  Is the touch screen keyboard easy to use?

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Re: In Light of Joe's Tweet about AT&T, Review your Service

RickB wrote:

See if you can get a coverage map online of the breakout of G3 and G4 area service coverage to help your decision. Even here in Socal metro, the G4 service is spotty. I use Sprint/Nextel and have holes too.
Rick

I've already checked the coverage maps of all of the carriers, but as they say, the map is not the territory.  I'm more interested in the reports of individuals with iPhones on Verizon in the rural midwest (esp. Iowa).  Anybody got an iphone and want to share?