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asianjack yeah im pretty sure i had close to 800 with rollover too, but ive been talking on it a lot now and text is 25 cents cause i dont have it. this is my 4th phone company now, i wonder which will be the next one.
Well, I've used Sprint, ATT, and Cingular... T-Mobile uses Cingular towers, and not all of them, so your best bet is to stick with Cingular, or go with Sprint or Verizon... Both sprint and Verison use CDMA (PCS) phones instead of GSM though, so you can't take your phone with you (if it matters) and sprint just adds 100 mins for $5, which they started doing 2 weeks after I switched to ATT because of my nasty overages... what a pain... I've had good luck with Sprint though, they seem to work just about everywhere, and the CDMA signal penetrates (heh, penetrate, heh) walls of buildings and such better than the GSM signal, but doesn't work overseas anywhere, as overseas uses a GSM on a different frequency (that some phones are starting to support) so, if you plan on traveling, GSM is the world standard, even though CDMA is technically supposed to be a better technology... guess it depends on who you ask...
With all that said, if I were to choose providers right now, it would be Cingular, Sprint, or Verizon, based on phone availability (I get a new cell phone every 6 months, sometimes sooner, I've got a box o' them in my closet :twisted: ), and since I'm planning on going to Europe and Asia more in the coming year, probably sticking to Cingular.
Also, you should pay the $5 a month to add text messages, it really pays off in the long run.