AT&T Wireless blows

[Guest houseboy]

Alright, this goes out to everyone who has been trying to call me this weekend - yes, my phone is down because the oh-so-convenient automatic payment option seems to be causing major trouble for the folks at AT&T wireless.

 

For some reason, sponsoring my girl in Uganda, paying my membership fees to the country club, and my alimony to KY_TOP all manage to get deducted from my checking account without a problem, but AT&T begs to differ.

 

So, my apologies to everyone who's been dialling the skin off their fingers. The problem should be fixed this afternoon (probably as I switch to Sprint).

 

 

Sean Lespagnol

Chicago, IL

http://www.seanlespagnol.com

 

"Big and tasty - every day!"

[LovesYng]

>Alright, this goes out to everyone who has been trying to

>call me this weekend - yes, my phone is down because the

>oh-so-convenient automatic payment option seems to be causing

>major trouble for the folks at AT&T wireless.

>

>For some reason, sponsoring my girl in Uganda, paying my

>membership fees to the country club, and my alimony to KY_TOP

 

How much alimony to KY_TOP? Maybe your paying to much

 

When in doubt I whip it out!!!

[KY_TOP]

RE: AT&T Wireless blows

 

>For some reason, sponsoring my girl in Uganda, paying my

>membership fees to the country club, and my alimony to KY_TOP

>all manage to get deducted from my checking account without a

>problem, but AT&T begs to differ.

 

It must be your bank. I didn't receive the alimony before I left for Montreal. If I had the Boys in Montreal would have been much happier to see me. Or is that why I didn't get it?

 

>"Big and tasty - every day!"

 

...and every morning and every night and the middle of the night and after dinner and after a shower and during a shower and.... Better than a Krispy Kremee:+

[Guest skrubber]

RE: AT&T Wireless blows

 

Try switching to Cingular - I've never had a problem.

 

Everybody loves Backa Baa.

[Guest Tristan]

RE: AT&T Wireless blows

 

That won't help. Cingular bought AT&T Wireless, and the name AT&T Wireless will soon disappear. You just can't win. That makes the company #1 in subscribers, with Verizon second.

[LovesYng]

Ewwww, I guess T-Mobile is still at the bottom of the list x(

 

When in doubt I whip it out!!!

[eastbayguy]

>So, my apologies to everyone who's been dialling the skin off

>their fingers. The problem should be fixed this afternoon

>(probably as I switch to Sprint).

 

You are to kind. AT&T is beyond "blows" but I realize that your message probably would violate some law or other and cause John Ashcroft's gall bladder to re-grow spontaneously if you said it exactly.

 

I switched recently to Verizon. The number transfer, which had me worried, took exactly four hours. I would have been impressed at four days, actually. The Verizon plan I selected is half the price of what I'd paid AT&T. So far, the only negative on Verizon is that my phone rarely rings outside my home area. Not sure what's up with that.

 

Anyway, AT&T bad, Verizon Good. Had bad, recent luck with Cingular, so I'd steer clear of them too.

 

--EBG

[Guest Tristan]

>Anyway, AT&T bad, Verizon Good. Had bad, recent luck with

>Cingular, so I'd steer clear of them too.

 

As I previously posted, AT&T Wireless will be no more. Cingular purchased the company, and the AT&T name will go poof. So if you buy into either, it will be the same company. Lord help us when they try to merge their systems. Maybe that's why I'm already getting a buzzing sound on my cell. I have Cingular.

[HooBoy]

They ALL suck, especially in the USA where, in order to buy a phone you have to sign up with a company and they LOCK your SIM card, so you cannot flip around easily between companies, or if you are like me and you like to travel a lot, you have to make long distance calls to the Why Not Club.

 

So that's why I flew to Hong Kong, because I can buy the latest greatest cell phones here and I have envelopes with SIM cards from every country I visit, along with subway cards, Pharmacy & grocery discount cards, coins because banks won't take them.

 

And henceforth, they will all be stored in the hotel lock box downstairs. It gets really bad when I have to ask the escort who I just picked up at a sauna what the combination is to my room safe. <it actually happened, and he knew it, too>

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The above written as a regular guy, not the owner of a website and has no official meaning, just unofficial BS.)

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--garbo the hoo

[eastbayguy]

>They ALL suck, especially in the USA where, in order to buy a

>phone you have to sign up with a company and they LOCK your

>SIM card, so you cannot flip around easily between companies,

>or if you are like me and you like to travel a lot, you have

>to make long distance calls to the Why Not Club.

 

Once upon a time, I had the same problem as yourself--international travel and the desire to have one phone for multiple places. Turns out there are ways of getting certain US carriers to support floating SIM cards. They don't all do it, but some will. With Cingular, there is a defined product which isn't available via retail channels. I had this arrangement with Pac Bell Wireless and then Cingular for a while.

 

It can be done. If you want, I will go dig up some contact names for you to make it happen. Just drop me an e-mail and let me know.

 

You're wanting a rep in the greater NYC area, I suppose?

 

--EBG

[Guest houseboy]

Well, here's the question - do you (or anyone else out there) know if a cell phone bought in either Hong Kong or Japan will work in Europe and / or Australia? I doubt that I will take my U.S. phone with me, but I am kind of flirting with the idea of buying a shnazzy one in Tokyo this summer to use forever after (except for the U.S., where foreign-bought phones don't seem to work)

 

I entirely agree with your assessment of the U.S. cell phone market - nowhere else I have been in the world did I have as many issues with, well, pretty much everything cell-related, than in the U.S. and I am definitely not going to miss the sh***y service I get here after April 4th.

 

Sean Lespagnol

Chicago, IL

http://www.seanlespagnol.com

 

"Big and tasty - every day!"

[HooBoy]

Well, in Europe, hardly anyone actually calls, they text my hands are too big and my knowledge of the telephone alphabet so small, I found this great Nokia with handwriting recognition...

 

Now if anyone wants me to bring them back some cool stuff from here...lordy no. I do not understand why everything fit in my suitcases when I left New York, but they won't close now without me sitting on them. I've cut down dramatically on what I bring with me too, electing to just buy disposable clothes. But, its always something.

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The above written as a regular guy, not the owner of a website and has no official meaning, just unofficial BS.)

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--garbo the hoo

[HooBoy]

Sean,

 

The tri bands will not work in Tokyo and the Tokyo phones won't work elsewhere. French phones give you attitude. Wait till you get to Hong Kong. The prices are decent and the phones work everywhere but Japan and one other country which I can't remember now, but I've been to Japan so many times, I don't worry about. Everyone speaks Japanese there.

 

Gomen nasai, Domo arigato.

 

Mr. Roboto.

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The above written as a regular guy, not the owner of a website and has no official meaning, just unofficial BS.)

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--garbo the hoo

[Guest houseboy]

Oooh, the man speaks Japanese. This should definitely go into the fetish section.

 

Thanks for the info, though, I guess I will wait for Hong Kong... Xiexie.

 

Sean Lespagnol

Chicago, IL

http://www.seanlespagnol.com

 

"Big and tasty - every day!"

[+ Hoover42]

If you buy a phone in Hong Kong, how do you use it in the states?

 

Do you have to take the phone to a local provider and have them activate it first?

 

...Hoover

[Guest houseboy]

Well, usually, you just have to buy a new sim card for the country you are in and have that activated. For some reason, however, this does not seem to work quite as easily in the U.S. as it does in Europe or Asia.

 

Sean Lespagnol

Chicago, IL

http://www.seanlespagnol.com

 

"Big and tasty - every day!"

[HooBoy]

RE: AT&T Wireless blows

 

Au con-whatever

 

When I am in the USA, I go into whichever store I choose -- this time it is, of all things, AT&T. They give me the SIM card for free and I give them head.

 

Oh, sorry, I was in the wrong nightmare.

 

They usually give me the SIM card free or around $10...my price for calls is nationwide and typically a tad higher than I would pay were I a subscriber, but

 

1. My phone not locked to A T & T

 

2. It's almost like a pay and go

 

3. No one ever calls me anyway

 

4. I use it to call someone if I'm running late, which I never am, except my Mom to tell her I love her, which she doesn't believe and then we argue for the remainder of the minutes. But, by that time I'm leaving the country anyway.

 

5. It's something to talk about at dinner, remember the dinner I thought I would be late for but they were late for because they're usually gay and young and have to change clothes 15 times before leaving and then forget what they left and have to go back and...

 

But out of all the countries in the world, the USA is the worst for customer service on cell phones and that locking them down just plain sucks. So it is worth it to me to fly to Hong Kong to get one. My friends thinks I'm nuts. But then, I hear that is just another rumor about me.

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The above written as a regular guy, not the owner of a website and has no official meaning, just unofficial BS.)

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--garbo the hoo

[Guest Tampa Yankee]

BIG TIME!!!

 

I switched from Verizon to AT&T in December because of their Canada Plan and the better rates were nice too. Got a great cellphone for free too. Only problem... I couldnt get GSM coverage in my home located in the burbs of boston. Great signal a quarter of a mile away but not in my house. Still... the phone took nice pics and was beautiful to look at :+ Cancelled service in the trial period and returned to Verizon where they raped me (on the phone) to sign up again. Calls to Canada are included. Calls IN or FROM Canada -- more rape. On a recent long weekend in Montreal I managed to ring up $80+ in roaming charges just coordinating with friends in town and checking messages. An affordable alternative would be welcome but no other provider seems to have a decent network in my neck of the woods.

 

Yes, AT&T definitely sucks. So does Verizon but at least I can access the outside world as long as I am NOT IN Canada.x(

[HooBoy]

Hey TY,

 

If you want me to pick you up a phone here in HK I can bring it to you next week. I'll be in Beantown.

 

You can get a Sim card for Canada and one for the USA and it will be local calls in both places. But I think the GSM problem in Boston is a pretty common thing.

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The above written as a regular guy, not the owner of a website and has no official meaning, just unofficial BS.)

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--garbo the hoo

[Guest Tampa Yankee]

Hoo,

 

Thanks for the generous offer. Check your email.