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Ditching the Contract

Leaving a Long Term Relationship When we bought our first house, we got absolutely no reception at our new home on our AT&T cell phones. So, we switched to Sprint, which did have coverage in our house. We have been with Sprint ever since- so, 8 or 9 years with the same cell phone company, and the majority of that time on the exact same plan. In fact, we didn’t change our plan until we addedread more…

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The Phone Saga Continues

I wrote in August about my phone saga. What I didn’t know at the time I wrote that post is that the new phone I was getting was a Nextel phone and even though they are on a the same network as Sprint, they work very differently. That means that most Sprint tech support folks, even though they were incredibly nice and tried really, really hard to be helpful, knew nothing about the phone or itsread more…

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The Phone Saga

About two weeks ago now, I dropped my cell phone in a puddle. Water damage, they tell me, is irreparable. Naturally, I had had that phone less than one year. My husband, on the other hand, has had his phone for almost two years. If this accident had happened two months from now, we could have gotten a new phone on a new contract and been done with it. Sure the website says he’d get aread more…