[Touch CDMA Android Development] Muscleboy:
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I gave up on sprint due to horrible service and the phone not ringing when people call etc etc etc etc (you would NOT believe what has gone on). So I moved to Verizon.

Problem: Both Sprint and Verizon and other CDMA carriers can and do prevent you from using phones that CAN work on their networks by simply not allowing you to use the phone's EIN number. There is NOTHING you can do about it whatsoever.

I tried to use another sprint phone on Verizon I had gotten on e-bay for a good price (I thought and read that Verizon, being the SAME network tech had agreed to open up it's EIN acceptance policies to allow other CDMA phones on their network-- that is, stop prohibiting them for no legitimate reason other than to steal more money from people by forcing them to get a new phone ) but despite their statements that they take other CDMA carrier's phones right off the bat it quickly mutated to after taking two weeks (who can afford to wait two weeks for a phone to be activated?) for no reason whatsoever other than to effectively STRONGLY requiring people to buy a Verizon phone. That and the fact that they screwed up my bills every time a bought a phone and every other chance they possibly could and the constant pattern where one Verizon rep would say one thing the other would say "oh I'm sorry they told you that but it is wrong, too bad you lost hundreds of dollars based upon what they told you". Verizon has way better phone service than Sprint overall (Sprint's internet may be better when it works) but despite Verizon's "we put our customers first" recordings they put people last as a matter of policy and no matter what rule they may change to trick people into signing contracts they go back to basically screwing people as much as they can just as quick as they can. I think there is grounds for a class-action suit for mental torture of customers, seriously. They make a killer amount of money just screwing bills up because it takes months to get customer service to fix bills-- many people just give up and pay them.

I had way too much of all of that with Verizon so I gave up and went to T-mobile after careful research and recommendations from other tech oriented friends. I have really honestly enjoyed the SIM card method that GSM uses. It is all about freedom. It really is good for techs, business people and people that like to have more than one phone if you think about it. You can easily switch over to one of several phones on one line just by swapping the SIM card. It's so pro customer it's not funny. YOU WILL BEGIN TO HEAL AFTER JUST A MONTH WITH TMO OR AT&T service... And no T-mobile doesn't force you to pay two months of bills up front like the rip off Verizon. You can buy a phone from tmobile at below the unlocked price in small interest-free payments and not only have a LOWER price for your monthly service but NO CONTRACT. That really sold me.

Add to that t-mobile has been so good with billing, customer service and tech support it's like a dream world. I've had AT&T customer's who are friends of mine say the same thing. They build customer loyalty. People don't need more stress in their lives. What exactly is Sprint and Verizon's problem?

T-mobile has been good to great service wise; both the internet is excellent and the phone calls-- I can hear every word crystal clear; free visual voicemail-- free GPS and fully functional GPS phones (GPS is free it's just Verizon rips it off their phones so you have to buy the rip-off turn by turn they charge for ). I have had zero dropped calls with Tmobile even right up in the mountains, places I couldn't even get a Sprint call before.

And I absolutely love that I can use literally any GSM phone and don't have to call anyone to activate it or be approved by the torture squad at Verizon (takes supposedly 2 weeks for Verizon to approve your sprint phone but then they never do or they say they have to destroy the GPS so you have to pay extra for GPS or other features that are free on At&t and Tmobile). You just stick a little card in the back and suddenly the phone is yours. That to me is amazing service that people deserve and probably why you see Europe mandating GSM only. We need to go the route of putting people first in the USA too not the big corps that buy off our politicians. Sorry I'm going on but this needs to be said.

Also with GSM when you are on 3G internet(which is 98 percent of the time with T-mobile) you can talk on the phone at the very same time you use the very same phone to look something up on the Internet. That is so fricking handy in many situations. You can't do anything close to that on Verizon or Sprint. It is not possible to use the internet on the same phone you talk on at the same time ever with CDMA period.

With GSM(both At&T and T-mobile you can use ANY GSM phone --even from Europe great if you travel there just get a European sim card and pop it into your USA tmobile phone-- just by sticking the SIM card into the back of the phone and turning it on. The only thing is you won't get the fastest speed internet unless the phone has your carrier's 3G chipset. But the hardware companies are planning to start putting all 3G chipsets in all phones. Many people use Iphones on T-Mobile because they happen to prefer something about t-mobile such as the rate plans or some other reason. Iphones are the only GSM truly locked to one carrier but as long as you don't mind using the slower 2G speeds you can use an Iphone on T-mobile without getting approval from the dungeon trolls at Verizon. GSM is all about freedom from what I've found.) I really think we should change the laws to make all phones work on all networks. Free market with a strong Democracy works the best. A bribed Congress acting like they support free market when all they are doing is taking bribes and taking orders from those that bribe them.

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