Are you in a major urban area? Here in the Bay I do pretty well as far as signal strength, but there are a few spots that are weak that Verizon used to be strong in. My first phone contract was with GTE on an old Moto Star TAK.

They were weak in some spots but as soon as they merged with Bell Atlantic and later became Verizon, the service got way good. I guess it's too much too hope for that T-mobile will improve along a similar timeline.

Maybe I lucked out but the price I got is way good. $65 a month for 1000 minutes, unlimited text and unlimited web. I'm using it right now as a modem. It's about as good as the Verizon or AT&T 3G cards, and those are $60 a month just by themselves with a limit in bytes.

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