How Long Have You Been With Your Current Provider

[Ed Zachary]

Alltel since 1992.
Verizon since the merger.

A buddy I worked with when we were in college (I bought a car from him) was a VP with Alltel. I saw recently where he is now regional VP with AT&T.

I get "thank you for being a longtime customer" from VZW, but that's it.
No perks. Found out the hard way that "new every 2"'s timer resets if any phone gets swapped out for any reason. Had one phone go belly up after a year. It got replaced. Now we have to wait two more years before any phone on the account can be "upgraded".

But...
Found out two weeks ago that my internet connection, using my TP as a modem, is twice as fast as my DSL connection through AT&T.

[DMWagner]

Alltel for the past 4 yrs.

Verizon before that till they screwed me on my security deposit.

Cellular One before Verizon for a couple of years.

[saibot]

Been with sprint since late 2001. Switched for the Sanyo scp5150 that I thought was so cool back then. Before that I had At&t before they joined with Bellsouth. Had a couple nokias with them, the last being a chrome one with a slider. Think it was the 8810. Before that I think I was with PrimeCo and before that, I think a beeper.
Have shopped around since starting with sprint, but despite the reputation for bad CS, sprint has been great to me. I do miss the CS with PrimeCo, tho. If anything happened to my phone, I could just go to the store and get a brand new one activated.

[Ed Zachary]

Got a letter yesterday from VZW talking about how long I had been with Alltel before the merger and that they (VZW) wanted to be sure I stay loyal to them.
How? By letting me upgrade either or both the Alltel phones now (without waiting out the two years), and we can keep our current voice plan.

Yeah, the current VOICE plan. Letter and brochure say that several times. I'll need to check to see if we can keep the current DATA plan as well.

Oh, and I have TWO WHOLE WEEKS to make my decision.
Then the deal is off.

[thisisallnew2me]

i've been with sprint since 1999. never switched thinking it would get better and i didn't want to lose my phone number. once you were able to port numbers i stayed with them since they're cheap. their service reflects that too. had the insurance plan, but they didn't do jack squat when my BB was on the fritz so i got rid of it. haven't had a contract with them now for over 3 years. with the new EVO coming out i just might have to change that last stat.