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Lying phone providers

rudedogtrev

Mar 24, 2010, 8:51 AM
If Cricket can offer a smartphone with them being on prepaid service, then that only goes to prove the other providers have been lying for years saying smartphones like Blackberrys aren't compatible with prepaid service. AT&T followed suit with Verizon when Verizon lowered their unlimited plan to 69.99 so why can't the other GSM/CDMA providers follow suit from Cricket and offer a prepaid plan built for a smartphone?

So sick of the bs from major providers!!!
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retrocool

Mar 24, 2010, 11:54 AM
What salesmen tell you is not the same as what a technician will tell you. If a wireless technician tells you that such-and-such a service is incompatible with (fill in the blank), then gives a specific technical reason for it, then I'd buy it. If a salesman tells me that such-and-such isn't compatible with such-and-such, I'll usually chalk that up to corporate business choices, not valid technical reasons.

Blackberry service is only incompatible with prepaid services when a business hasn't chosen to make prepaid Blackberry service available. These are business choices they make, and they're hoping you'll buy their line of BS long enough to milk more cash from you, until someone beats them at the game, and forces them to hop on the bandwa...
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citiprince

Mar 24, 2010, 2:17 PM
boost beat cricket? i wish so too, help me finding a boost retail store that can assist me in person. boost sucks and i bet it will go away soon.
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Desolationblade

Mar 24, 2010, 2:22 PM
While I agree Boost sucks, it is not going away. Shame there is 0 customer service for boost but the same goes for cricket. Noncontract prepaid=buy the phone and the minutes F U later. When u have a cricket phone issue they sell u a piece of crap 150 dollar phone and thats it. Its almost as bad as boost IMO. Cricket if ur late on ur prepaid account, $20 reactivation fee+$15 late fee... that 50 a month became 85. Back when I had them u couldnt pay via internet.
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Britbratxxnicole

Mar 24, 2010, 5:42 PM
You can pay them via internet now. 😁
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wirelessqueen

Apr 12, 2010, 12:09 PM
That is not true cricket if you are late you just pay $10 late fee that is it. If you phone is off for more then 90 days then you pay the $15.00 react fee. As far as the phones they have insurance so if something happens you get it replaced. You are allowed 2 replacements with in 12 months.
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retrocool

Mar 24, 2010, 4:02 PM
citiprince said:
boost beat cricket? i wish so too, help me finding a boost retail store that can assist me in person. boost sucks and i bet it will go away soon.


Sorry you didn't comprehend my easy-to-understand message.

I wasn't referring to quality of service. I was referring to which prepaid service brought Blackberry devices to market. Boost beat Cricket in the sense that Boost brought Blackberry service out before Cricket did.
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wirelessqueen

Apr 12, 2010, 12:06 PM
lol I know that is right I hate boost I had them for 2 years and I have had cricket for 7 months now and it is the best I have had
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wirelessqueen

Apr 12, 2010, 12:05 PM
Cricket is soing their thing but boost blackberry sucks and cricket is getting the blackberry 2 the newest one
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citiprince

Mar 24, 2010, 2:19 PM
companies like metro pcs and cricket are pay-in-advance, not prepaid. just like no contract t-mobile plans, u pay for the following month, and that's pay-in-advance.
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retrocool

Mar 24, 2010, 4:04 PM
Pay-in-advance and prepaid are two terms for the same thing. You pay, then you get the service.

Saying that prepaid isn't the same as pay-in-advance is ridiculous. If you don't pay before you get the service, then when do you pay, AFTER you get the service? If so, then it's neither prepaid nor pay-in-advance, it's postpaid.
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SPCSVZWJeff

Mar 25, 2010, 5:36 PM
not the same as pay as you go. with pay in advance there is a specific amount charged each month. Pay as you go means you buy a bucket of airtime/messaging/data and can use it up in anywhere from 1-12 months.
RIM charges the carriers monthly for the use of the Blackberry server so it is not possible to have blackberry service on a pay as you go.
Another hindrance is the unsubsidized phones which would be prohibitively expensive for a pay as you go or pay in advance customer. Many of whom are there due to credit and financial issues.
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citiprince

Mar 31, 2010, 12:41 PM
prepaid is u pay first, then get charged of the minutes or features u use later on.

pay-in-advance is u get a bill every 30 days regardless if u didn't use your phone/you didn't have service for 2 weeks due to non-payment.
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rudedogtrev

Mar 25, 2010, 10:54 AM
Pay as you go or prepaid makes no difference. According to the providers themselves it's the same thing. You either have prepaid or postpaid...contract or no contract. It's the same thing
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rudedogtrev

Mar 25, 2010, 10:55 AM
sorry Retro...i should have read your post before I posted this one...lol
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landmarkcm

Mar 24, 2010, 4:00 PM
Cricket still sucks!I have Sprint now which is great and Crickets own Service is not that great in Las Vegas and its there native area! plus they dont support short code messaging yet etc. Dropped calls galore etc with Cricket and poor voice quality in there own areas!
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