Aren't you frustrated from your cell phone service providers???

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Q. I am writing to see how many of you are frustrated with your cell phone service providers by their outrageous terms, conditions, plan options and charges. Do you know most of the other countries cell phone service providers don't charge for incoming calls and incoming text messages unlike our cell phone providers. Let me know your thoughts and opinions.

A. I go with prepaid, I pay "more per minute", but make so few calls it's much cheaper. I pay in $10/ mth to keep it active and it rolls over month to month. And unlike the plans here (Canada) I'm not then hit with another $8-9 a month junk "system access fee". I don't get tied in long contracts with stupid terms because I bought the phone upfront. $90 + tax to get a phone, activated, with promotional airtime. It's a basic Nokia bar phone. Does what I want (send / receive calls / texts), some bonus stuff (calculator, alarm clock), but doesn't do things I don't want to pay for (crappy camera, MP3 player). And Nokia is generally considered a good phone for reliability and signal quality. I also don't pay for incoming texts. Other countries get away with free incoming calls because the caller pays MORE than a landline- landline phone call, because in other markets they pay per call for local calls anyways, so there's a different price structure there to begin with. I use a cell phone that my employer provides. Probably about 100 of my colleagues carry an employer-issued cell phone, all are on Verzion Wireless through a corporate plan. The more senior each employee is in our department, the nicer the phone he or she can have. I have a Palm Treo 700p and I am thrilled with it. About a year ago, we switched from Nextel. With Nextel, the service was terrible. With Verizon, its fine. Billing for corporate cell phone service differs from private cell phones. My employer pays the bills, but I get a copy of each month's bill from my employer via email. We are on an honor system where we pay a portion of the bill to cover personal use. I just make out a check every three months, which is what my employer's bean counters prefer.

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