 Review by kamm 
UPDATED: 260 days ago
member for 8.7 years, 1522 visits, last login: 1 days ago
 Brooklyn,Kings,NY
 $50 per month
 about 7 days
 "Best value service, month-by-month w/o contract has everything a contract has, nicest customer service"
 "Idiotic website, useless online account tools, stupid 1700MHz 3G w/ little coverage & no modem"
 "If you can deal with lacking 3G etc issues it's much better than AT&T when it comes to overall value"
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When hordes of iCraps totally screwed up the already-slow AT&T pseudo-3G bandwidth and our 2-yr contract expired (and had enough of paying for "friend's" bills) I decided to hell with AT&T and its fake "3G" and went back to TMO. They offered the SAME 5 FAVS DEAL WITH NO CONTRACT as with contracts and since I always had my own phones month-by-month is just perfect for me and my wife.
With TMO I am paying some ~$40-50 less per month (light, slow-tiered "unlimited" EDGE included), lot more text messages (barely use them though), all of our often called numbers are free at any time, we have no contractual commitments and nicer CSRs if we have to call them...
Everything went smooth except it took 3 visits back to the store, 3 calls to CS and finally one smart system engineer to figure out that for some reason data signal wasn't turned on for me - he enabled it and pretty much that was it, everything since (~4 months) works fine.
There's one downside of TMO though: their 3G is a using a new protocol (WCDMA/AWS HSPA), on a completely new frequency (1700MHz) so aside of their own G1 Google-phone (which is a pretty good unit but lacks stereo BT, video recording etc, lot of things my rusty old HSDPA-enabled TyTn offered years ago) and 3G-enabled jokes (flipflop-phones, midget-phones etc) literally there's [b]still no retail 3G data card, USB modem or even another compatible 3G-enabled phone[/b] available as of today (mid-Feb 2009) - this is LAME, very lame.
I can't wait to see WiMax or any affordable (not more than $30/mo), real mobile broadband (1.5Mbit and up) solution to arrive here (NYC) so I can start carrying my little M912 nettablet around...  :):)
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