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I have no real complaints about Sprint. Like I said, that one time the service got fudged for about five minutes and I needed to make a phone call *now* so I just stuck the phone in analog mode and made the call.

The thing I don't like about Verizon is that their prices and calling plans fucking sucked when I was looking. Here's what I've got:

-3050 Night & Weekend Minutes/month
-450 Day Minutes/month
-Nationwide long distance
-Nationwide calling area (i.e., if I can get SprintPCS signal, I'm not roaming, even in Jackson, Mississippi)
-"Night" time starts at 8 PM
-$50/month

Now, all that stuff was important to me. I use it a lot (replaces the home phone), so I wanted the minutes. I call people all over the country, so I wanted the nationwide long distance. I was going to Jackson in a month and a half, so I wanted the nationwide calling area. And because of Quake and the fact that I play clan matches while on the phone, I wanted the night time to start at 8 PM. That extra hour is a very important one to me.

Verizon only had night starting at 9 PM. I talked to their reps, they could <b>not</b> give me an 8 PM night, even for a couple extra bucks a month. "I'm sorry, our computers are programmed so that we can't do that." I was like "Well, I'm sorry, but I can't buy your service then." Even overlooking that, trying to get nationwide long distance <b>or</b> a nationwide calling area at a decent price ($50 or less per month with the minutes I listed above) was impossible. Literally. And their minutes just didn't stack up. There just weren't enough for the price.

Jenni has Verizon, and I will say that its coverage overall is better. But everyone knows that. It operates at a lower megahertz and so it happens to get signal in spots like valleys and whatnot whereas SprintPCS will not hug the earth the way regular cellular does. That's a trade off I was willing to make simply because the coverage in my area (Fairfax) is excellent. I seriously do not have any problem in the house, at work, at the grocery store, etc.

I would have liked to have gotten Verizon with a StarTAC, but the cost was prohibitive. Turns out that I get great service with a better phone, so I'm happy.