<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">We've had AT&T for years, started with Cingular. Two iPhones, family plan, grandfathered in to unlimited data. They keep trying to get us to drop the unlimited plan and go to a new one, but we hang on to it. That usually means waiting an extra 2-4 months after the 2-year period runs out to be able to upgrade and keep the plan - we have 5s phones now, and could upgrade at the subsidized cost now if we were willing to give up the unlimited plan, but if we wait until November we can upgrade and keep the plan. (unless they figure out how to kill it by then) that usually puts us on the "s" cycle with Apple, which has actually been pretty good as we wind up with the second generation of each model.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">No problems on the West Coast - generally excellent coverage. I had pretty good coverage all the way across the country on Amtrack on a trip about two years ago. Not as good on the East coast, or in the lower middle parts of the US, but workable. Pretty good network of wifi hotspots.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">We just got back from a month in Europe, Amsterdam, Bordeaux, and all over Italy - we used their "passport pro" and "passport Plus" roaming plans and had good coverage most places.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Service - I don't know - we haven't had problems. We buy our phones at the Apple store, although we bought our first iPhones years ago at an AT&T store. So, Apple services the phones, and has always been able to solve any problems we've had. (We're lucky to live in a large community with multiple Apple Stores and generally very good service at several of them). Never had a broken screen or very many of the problems I hear others complain of - we use simple phone cases (for the 4s we use the standard slim ones Apple sells) and I keep my phone in my pocket (not back pocket) most of the time.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">In general, satisfied enough with AT&T and iPhone to see no reason to switch. Our monthly bill for two phones runs around $160-$190 per month, unlimited data, 700 shared minutes with rollover, unlimited roaming, unlimited mobile to mobile, 200 text messages. On a typical bill, of $160, roughly $105 was for the first phone and $55 for the second.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dave Tosti-Lane</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Pat Kight via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div>... does anyone have anything good, bad or indifferent to say about AT&T?<br><br>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><br>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. <br><br>*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><br>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.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>-- <br>Pat Kight<br><a href="mailto:kightp@peak.org" target="_blank">kightp@peak.org</a> </font></span></div></div></div><br>____________________________________________________________<br>
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