What is the best cell phone provider out there in terms of quality and cost?

This is a follow up to a question I questioned earlier about cell phone providers that have boundless night and weekend calls. I am going to switch from Virgin Mobile soon.

Answer by fjpoblam
Don’t know about cost…they’re all groaners! For quality, we live in a hard reception area and found that for coverage we *needed* Verizon. We tried others. It has proved the best not only here but in all travels.

Answer by FaBi0
the 2 best= cingular and tmobile
verizon is dumb no excellent phones rlly
Depends…if u want prepaid…
cingular is best. if u want fixed plot-tmobile is best. it has the coolest phones and more minutes for ur money!

Answer by caleighrassano
Tmobile has the best customer service and the best bang-for-your-buck. But lousy service (if you’re in the country, don’t expect reception) they have fantastic phones

Cingular has decent plans and decent customer service but again, the coverage is not that excellent but they have fantastic phones

Alltel is rather expensive with their plans and their phones are kind of blah and horrible customer service excellent coverage nationwide

Verizon has decent plans as long as you dont add on any unnecessary features like (v-cast, thats the largest waste of money ive ever seen) and their texting plot is a small overpriced but they have excellent phones and excellent customer service and decent coverage

Sprint has horrible customer service and they tried to constantly charge me for things I never ever heard of or had! and their phones are blah service is decent sometimes

Answer by Wendy H
We have Verizon at home and at work and we like it. At home we have 3 phones on the same plot, use the phone all day and the bill is pretty cheap. Went to the mountains with the in-laws. They all have Sprint and they had no reception while we did. Mother in law can’t even use her phone in town most of the time because for some reason Sprint has her on roaming in her own town and she refuses to answer the call if her phone is on roaming. My daughter had Cingular and she and her boyfriend paid for boundless text messages, yet when she got her bill- they still charged her 25 cents per message and her bill was 900. Check them all out before you buy something you’ll be stuck with for 2 years.

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We want to get my boyfriend’s Mom a cell phone for Mother’s Day. She needs a plot with excellent service coverage so she can travel with it but will not use the phone frequently.

Answer by kev065
I’d go with a prepaid one

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