The inevitable phone service question

[torquill]

I just got charged $134 for last month's cell phone bill.

Most of that was 15-second phone tag calls -- incoming, outgoing, the occasional call to check my own voicemail. Each 15 second tag cost me a minute of service time. It added up to about 350 minutes on my 100-minute plan.

I've been feeling the slack in the Nextel lines since the merger, and toying with the idea of at least switching to Sprint (they'd let me do it for free, just sign another contract and *sigh* buy a different phone) but now I really think it's time to start looking. Maybe every company does the rounding-up thing... but not every plan will charge me this much for it, nor am I yet convinced that every company will try to screw me. Nextel used to be the "nice" one, the maverick. Sigh.

I am officially looking for recommendations for a) carriers and b) plans. I'm not getting a Treo, nor do I need internet access/cameraphone/mp3 capability. Funds are reasonably tight. I don't spend all day on the phone, despite what this bill looks like, so I don't need the dee-lux we'll-shine-your-shoes-too plans. Just something that won't make me cough up $100 because my friends and I can't make connections.

I suppose this means I'll have to get a flippy-phone. I hate flippy phones. With the way I treat my phone, it'll be dead within a couple months.

Sigh.

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[vaspider]

And, for the record, T-Mobile has won "most satisfied customers" in the wireless industry 3 years running from J.D. Power & Associates. ;) There's a reason I work where I do, and it's not Catherine Zeta-Jones, for sure. I got sick of the Giant Orange X-Wing chewing up customers and employees.