Cell phone provider reviews....new contract wondering what to get?

by elecnix

Tomarrow im getting a new cell phone and a new contract…im now with centenial..

i was wondering what people tohught of there providers
i was thinking of going to at&t and getting the blackberry curve. but i hard you need a blackberry plot and i dont want that….
i want a smart phone though..possibly an htc
but i heard you have to get a blackberry plot

Answer by lovingthrill
I just got a curve. i don’t know what a blackberry plot is but i certainly don’t have one. I am assuming it has to do with setting up aim and wifi and such. I don’t really deal with that. I just have a regular plot with unlimited text messages. Through AT&T I reckon the phone finished up costing a small under 100. I am not sure because it was a gift but I know I dont have a “blackberry plot”.

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Buckaroo Motel Neon


Image by Chuck "Caveman" Coker
We didn’t stay here. I was just looking for neon.

Buckaroo Motel
1315 W Tucumcari Blvd
Tucumcari, NM 88401-3326
(575) 461-1650

We stopped for the night in Tucumcari, New Mexico. We were wondering if there was anything fascinating going on in town so we looked in the local newspaper. We found this article. Yikes!

Tucumcari Police Chief Tasers 14-Year-Ancient
Girl improving after dart surgically removed from her head

By Chelle Delaney

July 3, 2009

A 14-year-ancient Tucumcari girl is improving at an Albuquerque hospital after being shot in the head with a Taser dart by Tucucmari Police Chief Roger Hatcher.

Now, her parents say they want the police department to review its policies for by the Taser.

The girl was hit in the head Thursday by one of two darts fired simultaneously as she was fleeing, Hatcher said.

The other dart lodged in her hip.

Hatcher said be believed he had no other option.

"There’s a lot of issues," Hatcher said. "She committed a delinquent act. She was running from police crosswise traffic without looking."

Hatcher said he chased her, ordered her to stop and "then did what I had to do."

Her mother, Stacy Akin, said her daughter underwent surgery Friday morning at University of New Mexico hospital in Albuquerque.

"One of the darts entered her skull," said Akin, interviewed by telephone.

After a CAT scan, a hospital resident told her the dart was "in her brain a small bit, but not much," Akin said. [emphasis mine]

She was in pediatric intensive care following the surgery, Akin said. "She seems OK, but she she’s in a lot of pain. Her head is hurting her real terrible."

Police were trying help Akin because she and her daughter had been fighting, Akin said.

Akin said while she could know the use of a Taser on an adult, it shouldn’t be used on a child.

"She’s only 14, why?" Aikin questioned.

Akin also said her daughter has epilepsy.

The girl’s father, Donny Martinez of Amarillo, said his daughter takes medication for the condition.

"I’d like to find out what happened," Martinez said, adding, "Someone, independently should look at it" to see if excessive force was used.

Akin said she and her daughter were arguing over a cell phone.

Akin said she drove her daughter to the Tucumcari Police Department to seek help.

While in front of police headquarters, her daughter walked away, Akin said.

Hatcher said he was at another incident when he received a call that a young girl had run off.

Hatcher said he returned to department headquarters and talked to Aikin, who had a bloodied lip and scratches from a fight.

Hatcher said he found the girl at George Molinas Park.

Hatcher said he got out of his vehicle, called to her and she ran in front of his patrol car crosswise Monroe Street without looking for traffic.

Both were in a dead run when the Taser was fired, Hatcher said.

Hatcher said if he’d been able to grab her and place her on the ground, he would have done it instead of firing the Taser.

"There was a lawful reason to do that," said Hatcher. "I didn’t have another choice and had to get her stopped."

Akin and her daughter were new in town, Hatcher said, and he did not know everywhere she would go.

Hatcher said if he had not stopped her the consequences might have been worse.

Taser stun guns deliver a 50,000-volt electrical current that incapacitates a person, Hatcher said.

By the time, the darts reach a person that current has greatly decreased, he said.

Hatcher said he plans to refer the case to the Juvenile Probation Office Monday for possible charges.

Delaney, Chelle. "Tucumcari Police Chief Tasers 14-Year-Ancient." Portales News-Times (New Mexico). 3 Jul. 2009. <http://www.pntonline.com/news/tucumcari-17846-year-chief.html>

MCI’s monthly plot went to nearly $ 6 for the privilege of by their plot; I’m not going to pay them $ 6 when I nearly exclusively use my cell phone for long distance. So I need to switch to a new carrier. Has anyone used 3U Telecom for their long distance? They were recommended by a couple of online review sites.

Thanks.

Answer by Professor Oglevee
Nope. I have verizon freedom unlimited long distance.

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