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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I’ve had AT&T for several decades now, and overall, I’m very satisfied with the coverage, cost, and service.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Their stores are staffed by friendly, knowledgeable people, they answer their phones when I need to call them, and I seldom have any outages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I have 3 cells (partner, daughter, me), land line, not basic cable, high speed internet, and they host my website.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I’m lucky in that I have the ‘grandfathered’ unlimited data, (never noticed any throttling on it), which is good because I use a lot of data (video’s, streaming
music, etc). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">We all use a fair amount of texting, and calling, but little international. The times I have traveled overseas, it’s been easy to switch my plan so I can make/receive
international calls at a reasonable rate. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I have not gone with their new “rent your phone” plan, as in the long run, it’s cheaper to buy the phone outright from Apple.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">So, overall, I’m a happy AT&T customer.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Stagecraft [mailto:stagecraft-bounces@theatrical.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Pat Kight via Stagecraft<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 24, 2015 12:29 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> stagecraft@theatrical.net<br>
<b>Cc:</b> kightp@peak.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [SML] Since we've been talking about cell networks ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">... does anyone have anything good, bad or indifferent to say about AT&T?<br>
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I'm about to break down and upgrade from my voice-and-text-only TracFone* to an iPhone, and the local Mac Store sells them only with AT&T accounts. The pricing is pretty good for the minimal servicesI require, except for the fact that you're essentially renting
the phone (they assume you'll want to upgrade within the 2-year-life of the contract.) however, I can pay off the phone at any point and it will be mine.<br>
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I've been reading up and it seems as if GSM networks such as AT&T's have some real advantages over the CDMA networks used by Sprint and Verizon.
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*What can I say? I'm a selective technophile, and to date all I've needed from a phone was voice and texting capability. However, I just bought a SmartFor2 electric car, and I really need to be able to (a) talk to the car and (b) locate charging stations -
of which there are many in Oregon - and find out if they're free, out of service, etc. AT&T appears to have good coverage in the region where I expect to be driving in the foreseeable future. For long trips, I can take the train or rent a car.<br>
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I don't need a big-assed data plan. I'm not gonna watch movies, listen to music or store a ton of photos on my phone - I have better-for-my-aging eyesight options for those things.<br>
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Pat Kight<br>
<a href="mailto:kightp@peak.org">kightp@peak.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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