Re: Ten and a half years, and now it's over.

I left VZW in July & went with TMO. After 4 months I'm very happy with TMO &
so is my family.


"The Ghost of General Lee" <ghost@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7feco1pe14uid31mjljr2i3hhkh7cob291@xxxxxxxxxx
> Due to their sorry selection of bar style phones (especially from
> Kyocera), and the need for an extra LOS for my daughter, I have left
> Verizon Wireless/Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile/Bell Atlantic Mobile.
> Much to Lyin' Larry's revelry, I'm sure, I have gone with Alltel.
>
> Instead of paying $89.99/mo for two lines so that I could have the
> Kyocera 444 (which includes having their PTT feature forced upon me),
> I'll be paying $79.97/mo for three LOS, which means my mother can drop
> her $15/20min/month "retention" plan. Plus she gets a new Blade phone
> (along with my daughter), which works very much like her VZW Kyocera
> 2325 does, so she doesn't have to learn a completely new phone.
>
> I also got the KX440. Although it is a PTT phone, I was allowed to
> have it on a non-PTT plan. When I called VZW CS to get my account
> number (to facilitate porting my number to Alltel), the CS rep asked
> if there was anything they could do to keep me. I asked her if they
> could get with Kyocera and purchase a bar style, non-PTT within the
> next 6 hours. She laughed for a second, then after realizing I was
> serious, she said no, apologized and wished me a happy Thanksgiving.
>
> Although I will no longer be a VZW customer, I'll still hang out here
> (like Steve Sobol) to help those who have questions. And unlike Lyin'
> Larry, I won't be here just to bash VZW or push alternative providers
> on people when they only have simple questions. Granted, Alltel's
> coverage here isn't as good as VZW's. But, VZW's coverage wasn't the
> greatest out here 3 years ago. So I'll take that issue up with Alltel
> and hopefully get a couple of antennas adjusted to improve the
> coverage.
>
> I had a ball, folks, kind of sorry to leave VZW over this issue, but
> the writing was on the wall. Y'all take care and I look forward to
> helping out others who may this way come.
>


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