ATT Vs Puretalk Cell Service

[John6185]

It is a great pain to jump thru all the hoops required to change cell phone carriers. ATT will have to unlock my phone, gotta find a new carrier, cancel auto pay with ATT and enable another carrier. Worst, I have to go to an ATT phone center to unlock the iPhone. I'm sure there are other things I'll have to do but that's enough.

 

[okierider]

It is a great pain to jump thru all the hoops required to change cell phone carriers. ATT will have to unlock my phone, gotta find a new carrier, cancel auto pay with ATT and enable another carrier. Worst, I have to go to an ATT phone center to unlock the iPhone. I'm sure there are other things I'll have to do but that's enough.

Att can unlock your phone remotely . If they tell you different they are giving you another reason to leave. I gave my old phone to my daughter and they unlocked it for me whilst sitting at my desk looking at gun porn....

 

[HoLeChit]

My understanding is that these “budget offshoots” of the main cell companies offer roughly the same service piggy backed off of the big guys towers. But there’s always a catch. The catch that I have found? It’s cheap, but you are the low man on the totem pole when it comes to bandwidth priority.

I have a friend who uses the Verizon version of the puretalk or consumer cellular or whoever, and says that everything is fine, but some parts of the day the internet/data on her phone can be really slow. Seems like a good deal if you just need your phone for calls and texts.

 

[chuter]

My understanding is that these “budget offshoots” of the main cell companies offer roughly the same service piggy backed off of the big guys towers. But there’s always a catch. The catch that I have found? It’s cheap, but you are the low man on the totem pole when it comes to bandwidth priority.

I have a friend who uses the Verizon version of the puretalk or consumer cellular or whoever, and says that everything is fine, but some parts of the day the internet/data on her phone can be really slow. Seems like a good deal if you just need your phone for calls and texts.

After a little research that's what I found as well. I knew there must be a catch, and it's the main companies will throttle back the little carriers using their towers.
I don't know how significant a difference that will be or how often it happens.

Verizon just sent us a notice they're going up $12.

 

[KOPBET]

AT&T throttles back their own customers as well.

 

[Shadowrider]

It is a great pain to jump thru all the hoops required to change cell phone carriers. ATT will have to unlock my phone, gotta find a new carrier, cancel auto pay with ATT and enable another carrier. Worst, I have to go to an ATT phone center to unlock the iPhone. I'm sure there are other things I'll have to do but that's enough.

If you login to your account you can request an unlock. They have the instructions in there somewhere, because I did it to mine. Once you make the request there are a few steps after it's approved. Backup your phone to icloud, then do a factory reset, then restore from icloud. Bam, your phone is now unlocked without even talking to anyone, which is a really good thing with AT&T.

 

[Podman]

I went with Mint at $15 a month. I think same towers as T-Mobile. Has worked fine
so far.

 

[SoonerP226]

It is a great pain to jump thru all the hoops required to change cell phone carriers. ATT will have to unlock my phone, gotta find a new carrier, cancel auto pay with ATT and enable another carrier. Worst, I have to go to an ATT phone center to unlock the iPhone. I'm sure there are other things I'll have to do but that's enough.

If you've paid off the phone (I think you said it was), you can call them and have them unlock it. My brother just did that with his old phone yesterday. They were kind of dense about it, but it didn't take too long to get it done.

If you want to keep your phone number, you don't want to cancel your AT$T service; go to your new carrier and have them port the number over. Once the new carrier starts the porting process, AT$T has, IIRC, up to 28 days to release it to them. Once the process is done, AT$T should stop billing you--at least they did when I transferred my old land line from AT$T to a carrier that doesn't suck--so you can avoid a lot of the hassle that way.

 

[acope]

If you are over 55, take a look at T-Mobile Magenta Max 55+ plan. We made the switch because of AT&T raising the rates. Only been a month, but I am happy with the speed and the coverage.

 

[AKmoose]

If you are over 55, take a look at T-Mobile Magenta Max 55+ plan. We made the switch because of AT&T raising the rates. Only been a month, but I am happy with the speed and the coverage.

We're on this 2 phones $84 a month, good service with no problems. I think it would be $10 or $20 cheaper with autopay but not giving any bank account info out to anyone I don't have to.