America's Worst Phone Service
from the come-to-me... dept
It appears my talent for destroying companies stretches beyond just broadband providers. The Wall Street Journal (reprinted at MSNBC) has done a study of the worst phone service providers in the US for both mobile phones and landline long distance. In both cases, I'm at the bottom of the barrel. MCI provides my landline service, and it's true what they say about them. I need to check each bill over carefully, and often find random fees that don't belong. My favorite MCI move, though, was how they promised me a free caller ID box to sign up for their "The Neighborhood" plan. I never got the box. When I asked about it a few months later, they told me "Oh, we're not doing that anymore." I pointed out it didn't matter if they were doing it anymore, they promised it to me for signing up, and the woman told me there was nothing she could do. She even admitted that it was illegal for them to have done that, but she didn't seem to care. On the mobile carrier side, the worst of the worst is my carrier, Sprint PCS. However, it's followed closely by the provider of my brand new Danger Hiptop, T-Mobile, so I should have a fun time dealing with that. Sprint PCS has actually been very good to me, so I don't have any complaints about them. Interestingly, the report says for long distance you should go for lesser known companies like IDT, but for mobile phones, bigger may be better, with Verizon coming out on top.
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Nick Davis
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MCI - False Advertsing
I have finally contacted thier corporate office the phone number is available with research. I have spoken to someone in thier marketing department and I anxiously await further response.
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Cingular Is Best!
Cingular has been sence the 90's And When they bought AT&T Wireless which has been around sence the mid 80's makes them the # 1 Voice and Data Network in America. They have over 60 MILLION customers on there network. Alltel is just bad! Where they say they have service they dont or there Roaming! In major cities they can Roam! They only have 15 Million.
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