Sprint, Comcast and Bell have their own retail locations as well as outlets at dedicated cellular vendors such as Quintex and Voice Star. Ray Richardson has 15 years experience in cellular, first hawking Metrophone's products, then for most of the 90s with Quintex, a Bell Atlantic-Nynex distributor. Bell also claims to have the most comprehensive network. He outlines both the advantages and shortcomings of various vendors and phones and notes that Voice Star carries none of the top 15 cellular phones rated by Consumer Reports in November. The cost of cellular has come down with increasing competition but it can still be quite confusing.
Contracts are one or two years and require hefty cancellation fees.
Those roaming charges are what you pay to access another service provider's network and apply whether you're making a local or long-distance call from that location. If you're making a local or long-distance call from that location. If you're often in the same distant location, it may pay to add a second home area to your calling plan. Now, a look at the current players. Bell and Comcast both started with analog and now offer digital as well.