April 16, 2006

Switching services

This Tuesday we’re switching all of our services. I’m tired of Comcast’s Internet service (the upload speeds are just too friggin’ slow), their overly-priced local and long distance service and most of all, Cingular’s lousy mobile service.

Cingular has recently released an ad campaign about how people are switching to Cingular because they don’t drop calls. The commercial depicts a seemingly calm and collect guy explaining his frustration with his provider dropping his calls. Everytime he goes to shout his frustrations, his voice is muted out with the text showing at the bottom of the screen.

Heh, interesting considering that Cingular has consistently dropped my calls. I can’t get signal to save my life in my house or at work. About the only time I can get signal is in my car…and I try not to talk on my phone in the car if I can help it.

I called Cingular last Friday to find out when my contract ended. Conveniently it had ended that day. The call rep asked why I was inquiring about my contract, to which I gave him my answer—they drop my calls all the time. He seemed to blame it on still being on the converted AT&T Wireless network — I blame it on Cingular for not being able to maintain the network that I had belonged to.

The rep suggested that I switch to the Cingular network off the old AT&T network and said in not so many words, “we won’t be droppin’ your calls.” I basically said — “you’re right…I’m switching carriers.”

By bundling my entire services — local phone, long distance, high speed internet (3Mbps down / 896 kbps up), DirectTV and mobile phone service — and we’ll save around $70 a month. It will go up after a year by ten or twenty dollars, but we’ll still save money.

Edit:

HA!…. I can’t believe I didn’t include my new provider.  I’m going back to Qwest and bundling all my services through them.

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April 16, 2006, 8:27 pm

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1 Comment »

  1. Jamison said,

    April 17, 2006 @ 4:06 pm

    So which phone are you getting? They don’t sell the Nokia I got anymore, which is too bad. It had a camera in it and a radio.

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