On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 11:04 -0800, Charlie Schluting wrote: > Cliff Wells wrote: > > On a somewhat more useful note: > > > > Sprint: their new "Fair and Flexible" plans are really nice (in fact, > > they really are "fair and flexible" compared to most other plans). Of > > course, this is only if you can stand the dropped calls > > I've *never* had that happen in 4 years with sprint, unless I lose signal. > > and paying in > > person > > Huh? You can go to their website and use a CC, call them and use a credit > card, or use your bank's billpay.
I quit trying to use their site to do stuff a couple years ago. It may have improved since then. The banking system takes too long (I usually get the email a day or two after the bill is overdue and so get a late fee), but this may be the fault of the bank. No way to tell. > (or if you can stand wearing out the buttons on your phone as you > > navigate through endless automated menus > > Again, huh? They have an awesome voice recgonition system that routes you > quickly to the right people. > Hm, it's so hard to tell at this point if you are being facetious. The "awesome voice recognition" only covers the very first menu item and it only understands a very limited number of phrases. After you say "pay my bill" you exit the VR system and proceed to press buttons, the obvious function of each being described in painful detail until you want to scream. By contrast, I practically want to marry Comcast for their relatively painless payment system. > and are bombarded with > > advertising selling you what you already bought until eventually you > > give up and wait a full billing cycle while your call is routed to India > > where a person won't understand what you want anyway). > > I've never been routed to India. Then I don't believe you use Sprint. All their call centers are in India. > Their coverage > > is decent (i.e. you can always make and receive calls), but that won't > > prevent you from being disconnected mid-call anyway for no apparent > > reason. > > Sounds like you had a bad phone.. Phone could certainly be an issue, although Laura has a completely different phone and has dropped calls as well. Of course, our remote location 5 minutes from downtown Portland might be a factor. Perhaps we're just inside the range where we can get cancer from the towers, but not a clean signal... > And I agree, their coverage rocks. Excluding a small spot in N california, > you can drive all of I5 and I10 without leaving sprint territory. I found > that quite impressive :) This is true. If they got a new automated payment system I'd probably stick with them. The dropped calls are annoying, but I don't know that many other providers (except perhaps Verizon) are much better. Cliff > > -Charlie > _______________________________________________ > PDXLUG (a Portland Linux user group) mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug > IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug & #orlug _______________________________________________ PDXLUG (a Portland Linux user group) mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug & #orlug
