Why US Cell Phone Service Sucks

[DudeAsInCool]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8753895

[KiwiCoromandel]

interesting little article...quite relevant to new zealand since our major telco is owned by an american corporation.....i miss public phoneboxes...they all got sold when nz telecom was privatised and sold to bell-south......and the service is shit... :)

[ASUmusicMAN]

funny because all the GSM providers here have waaay shitty service. My verizon never drops out anywhere. The only time it doesn't work is in basements of all the buildings at school. But from Winter Park, Colorado to Maui my phone is great. All my friends with t-mobile complain about all the dropped calls.

[bmc]

my cellular one gsm works alright but can be shitty in some spots.

[FeFeHumHum]

my cell is through sprint and i never really have any problems with it :banana1:

[Potato]

T-Mobile... oh man don't get me started. About a year ago I switched to Verizon.

With T-Mobile, I was losing calls left and right. My phone was freaking possessed and calling people randomly, hanging up on people randomly, and hanging up when I tried to check my voice mail. THEN, I lost service in my basement... this slowly turned into me losing service in my entire house... until I was standing outside, in the middle of the road to talk to people. It was ridiculous.

Verizon has been better... except lately. The same shit it starting again... with the service anyways. Losing the calls in my house that is. And everywhere else.

[Excrement_Cranium]

I had Qwest to start with, as they are our local provider as well. Then, I switched to cingular... hasn't been bad, but they are sneaky bastards. They own AT&T, but still run it as a seperate network.

[slum_goddess]

the article doesn't mention what, to me, is the most important part of why cellphones are better over here and in EU: cause only the caller pays for the damn airtime; my bills were like 150$/month in NYC but here they're like under 10 quid/18$ a month. :)