User: vaspider
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Re: I don't get it..
Quite a few, actually -- it's a way to easily have perfect and unlimited service in your house, for one thing. For another, it means that anyone who uses a ton of daytime minutes (lawyers, salespeople, contractors) can stop for lunch in or near a Starbucks and return calls without burning minutes.
And if pricing holds to what's been discussed in articles about it, you could add an unlimited cell line for $15 to a family plan. That's tons ...
Re: Its about time
Yep. That's pretty much the entire point.
Re: Perfect Solution
T-Mobile's new manual contracts have a spot for customers to initial that they accept or decline equipment protection. I wish they'd add it to the regular contracts as well.
Re: T-Mobile already does this... but less expensively
Yeah, that's why T-Mo has their 5t straight JD Power & Associates for "Most Satisfied Customers." 'Cause they're awful.
I'm not really interested in getting into "this vs. that rox or sux." There's a reason I don't comment here all that much -- because a "uh, you left out someone in your main article" comment immediately gets swamped with "my company rox, other companies suxor."
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T-Mobile already does this... but less expensively
T-Mobile has offered unlimited messaging for $14.99 over a year at this point; not only that, they've got unlimited messaging for an entire family plan for as much as AT&T charges for a single line. FT messaging (all lines on a family plan get unlimited messaging) launched on T-Mobile in February 2006.
Re: Skype is full of crap
That's actually incorrect. If you'll read the ruling and the articles about it more carefully, you'll find that carriers are still allowed to lock phones all they want. They are not obligated to leave phones unlocked or provide unlock codes when requested.
What the ruling does do is makes it (or confirms it as) not illegal for people to attempt to unlock phones on their own.
Re: Chargebacks?
If you cancel through customer care within thirty days and don't return the phone, you are generally responsible for the full retail price of the phone; if you don't return the phone, they bill you for that difference.
Re: Can you help me understand this please
You're assuming that adding a band will make the other bands obsolete. This is not the case.
Re: Phones
The Samsung T-609 and Nokia 6133 (which is available for HAC special order at the moment and releases Oct. 9th) are also myFaves compatible.
Re: Since when
RShACkSUX said:
Since when do customers who have hearing aids ever need all the features on this phone?
Since some people are born with hearing problems, and not everyone who wears a hearing aid is over 60? I should probably have them myself but I haven't buckled to it yet. We see a fair amount of younger to middle-aged customers with hearing aids in our store.
Besides which, when you're required by law to carry a certain number of handsets that ...
Re: not about reception
Unlimited web, text and email for $30 a month, and no need for a voice plan you may or may not use. You can also get a voice-barred version if you're profoundly deaf (or just don't want the hassle of people calling your data-only line).
Re: RAZR
Shhhh. No logic allowed here!! :lol:
Re: not about reception
Um. Not everyone who wears a hearing aid is a senior citizen. Not even close. 8O I'd imagine the point of these phones is offering something that appeals to hard-of-hearing people who are not senior citizens, rather than condemning them to an "old person's phone." :wink:
I mean, look at the lock on the hard-of-hearing market that T-Mobile has with the Sidekick. Again, not everyone who carries one of those who's hard of hearing is profoundly deaf.
Re: Go T-Mobile Go!!!!
Funny thing is, according to the same company that supposedly rated Cingular with the fewest dropped calls, T-Mobile was #1 in fewest dropped calls in 28 of the 57 tested markets. Add to that the J.D. Power & Assoc. #1 in Call Quality in 4 out of 6 markets (#2 in the other 2), and I have to say: it's awesome that T-Mobile is bidding for more spectrum. It can only get better for the customers who are already ...
Re: The design...
No hot spot necessary with the MDA and EDGE, either. :roll: I've watched CSI on it, I've heard my regional play his Sirius radio through it... *shrug*
Re: The design...
No, actually, there's already a phone on the market that can do that. With a T-Mobile MDA and a Slingbox, you can control your cable box from anywhere you have a data connection: watch tv, change your DVR settings, watch recorded programming.
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Re: Question for... well anyone...
Ahh, yes. "People keep falling for it so it must be okay." The last refuge of the shyster. Whatever. :)
Re: Question for... well anyone...
Well aware -- still, there are ETFS Cingular charges that are over $200, and they charge an upgrade fee as well.
As I said before -- I used to work for Cingular. I know the song and dance. I still believe their practices are unethical. :)
Re: Question for... well anyone...
T-Mobile's ETF is $200 -- so they don't charge upgrade fees, and those who stay with them don't get penalized for those who leave. Hell, Cingular's ETF in some places is over $200 and they still charge upgrade fees.
I remain unconvinced.
Re: Question for... well anyone...
Please don't put words in my mouth or insinuate that I set unrealistic expectations for a customer. I'm not your straw woman, k? I left Cingular because they lied to their customers and they asked me to lie, which is exactly why people are suing them.
It's impossible to have a conversation with someone when they put words in your mouth. Yes, you have to be honest with a customer -- that's why the coverage map is there and ...
Re: Question for... well anyone...
... I'm way off by stating that companies should generate revenue by selling the service that they're supposedly in business to sell, and that should be how they make money to build improvements?
8O
Re: Question for... well anyone...
That stuff they get by selling service? Y'know, that thing the companies are supposedly in business to do? :) You don't need extra money from bogus fees if you don't have to pay off lawsuits due to your, ah, business practices.
Re: Question for... well anyone...
It's actually pretty damn reliable. When I use the map tool, I set accurate expectations. When I don't... I'm more likely to get a chargeback.
And as far as bringing in more revenue? How about... I dunno. Selling products & services? I know that's a radical idea as opposed to charging random fees.
Re: Question for... well anyone...
And I end up responding to the wrong one of your posts. Heh. Actually -- T-Mobile tied with or beat VZW in coverage & call quality in a whole slew of major markets. (Check the JD Powers reports.) As for the tool being best used sparingly, obviously T-Mobile doesn't think so, as it's weighted very heavily in their sales scoring & is available on the front page of their website. A lot of the major carriers talk a big ...
Re: Question for... well anyone...
Yeah, they'll need the bogus revenue to pay off lawsuits, I guess. Spare me -- I worked at Cingular, and I left because I couldn't stomach the lies I was asked to tell anymore. Yeah, I work for T-Mobile because I think they don't screw over their customers, and if your only response is "this BS fee is a legitimate revenue stream," well... yeah. I hope it will help pay off the lawsuits. Nobody's suing T-Mobile, they don't need ...
Re: Question for... well anyone...
See, hon, that's kind of my point. T-Mobile has their street-level coverage ON THE FRONT PAGE of their site, where it can be easily found by anyone, & no one had those kind of maps publicly accessible before T-Mobile did. Even now, when they are, they're buried deep enough that the average consumer won't find them.
Thank you for proving my point again and again. Good night!
Re: Question for... well anyone...
No, it's enough for them to just, you know, say their coverage is better and wave their hands around. Don't ask them to make it easily accessible to customers or anything. They don't like that. :D
Re: Question for... well anyone...
... you have to have a numeric IP to get the coverage map? ;) Hee! That's cute!
Re: Question for... well anyone...
Again, buried in Azerbaijan? Not helpful, and not on the front page of the website like T-Mobile's, -and- released after T-Mobile's was.
I used to work for Cingular corporate -- I know the spiel. Spare me, ok? ;)
Re: Question for... well anyone...
Oh, have they started copying T-Mobile's PCC? That's cute. ;) Where is it? On the front page of the website, like T-Mobile's? All I can find on the front page of the website & the front page of their business site are the printouts from their brochures.
I'm still not buying it -- no one is as forthright about their coverage as T-Mobile is, and showing me a nationwide coverage map (or a multi-state coverage map like VZW's) isn't going ...
Re: Question for... well anyone...
Verizon's coverage map offers zip-code level coverage maps, not street-level. Ditto Cingular. T-Mobile allows you to pinpoint any postal street address in the US, which, sorry, those maps don't do. Not only that, VZW and Cingular's consumer-facing maps only show you a blanket of coverage, they don't show you ACTUAL coverage, which anyone who is any level of truthful about cellular coverage will know varies.
Nice try, but no -- they're not the same or as honest and helpful to ...
Re: Question for... well anyone...
Relatively new? No. T-Mobile is a branding/buy-out of Western Wireless & Voicestream, and has existed since 2001 as the T-Mobile USA brand (VZW, and Cingular, comparatively, have existed as brands since 2000). Voicestream, which Deutsche Telekom -- hardly a newbie in the telecommunications business -- purchased, has been around at least long enough that some of my co-workers have been working for the company in one form or another for nine+ years.
T-Mobile has made a conscious decision not to ...
Re: Question for... well anyone...
The upgrade fee is an unnecessary fee that Cingular charges because it can. Whatever anyone else on here tells you, it's not a necessary fee and not every company charges it. All it requires to upgrade is a quick scan-in of the phone, changing your contract's end-date in the computer and the paper to print your upgrade receipt. Anyone who believes that is worth $18 is insane.
If you don't want to pay upgrade fees, try the company that has ...
Re: I don't see why Danger/Sharp doesn't create a CDMA version of the Hiptop.
Let me say this again really slowly, because you seem to not be getting it:
Exclusive.
Contract.
T-Mobile has a Exclusive Contract with Danger for the Sidekick. No, VZW and Sprint will NOT be getting it anytime soon, because it is... one more time... T-Mobile's EXCLUSIVE DEVICE. SunCom has it, but they're not a nationwide carrier. No, T-Mobile will not let another nationwide carrier horn in on their...ONE MORE TIME... exclusive contract.
I'm done with you. You just don't know what you're talking ...
Re: I don't see why Danger/Sharp doesn't create a CDMA version of the Hiptop.
I can't get on, what, YouTube? Big deal. I'd rather have a phone that does what I need for WORK (like SSH and Telnet) than what I want for FUN (like video or watching movies).
You can go on for days, but what you're talking is mostly ****. The SK3 doesn't have video, big deal. It still does what I need it to do for work better than any Treo (and honey, I have tried to SSH on those ...
Re: Sidekick 2.5
I had a Treo, I sold it so I could get a phone that has a comfortable keyboard, does what I want reliably, and does't cost me an arm and a leg for data, aka the Sidekick. I've tried every data device out there for GSM, and there is not one other keyboard that works as well as a SK. So you keep your Treo, I'll keep my Sidekick, and everyone's happy. :roll:
Re: I don't see why Danger/Sharp doesn't create a CDMA version of the Hiptop.
Also, do you not understand the concept of an "exclusive contract?" You're adorable, but you're wrong. T-Mobile has an exclusive national carrier contract with Danger -- VZW and Sprint aren't getting the SK3. :)
Re: I don't see why Danger/Sharp doesn't create a CDMA version of the Hiptop.
Or for people who don't like Palm OS, or for people who want an SSH client that doesn't freeze every three seconds or limit you to 60 characters, or for people who don't want a phone that crashes every three seconds like WinMobile 5...
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Re: Try T-Mobile!
That doesn't even make any sense. How can you not get GPRS speeds? GPRS just means "mobile internet." Further, GSM is not CDMA, more users doesn't appreciably slow data.
Re: Sidekick 2.5
No, it's a major change. :) The OS upgrade that was sent OTA to SK users six months ago was a pretty major upgrade, too, but this is a heeell of a lot more. The SK OS, too, is much more stable than Windows Mobile, IME.
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