knofun

So I have been with T-Mobile for about 2 years, and today i got really fed up with them and since this is my only platform to vent here I go. I used to have the Sidekick 3, and the sidekick plan from T-Mobile is $19.99 with unlimited messaging, browsing, email, etc. I kicked that sidekick to the kurb and got the blackberry pearl, which I absolutely love. Switching phones meant switching plans to the unlimited blackberry plan, which at the time I had no idea didn’t include messaging, and they didn’t feel it was necessary to tell me that along with all the disclaimers and crap they make you listen to on those customer service calls.

I also have my plan on autopay, meaning my bill just gets paid on my credit card every month. So I usually don’t pay any attention to it, but last month my bill was over $400, so I started poking around. I was doing $250/mo in text messages! On top of that, my pearl crapped out on me this weekend. I could see that I was getting calls and who was calling me, but I couldn’t answer or call back. I could see I had texts, but I couldn’t read them. Now there is absolutely no way I can operate efficiently without my phone, so first thing this morning I went to a t-mobile store and got a pearl for the full retail of about $400.

*time for the only good part of this story*

Blackberrys rock. I plugged my old phone into my computer, clicked backup in the blackberry software, plugged my new phone in, and clicked restore. Viola! My wallpaper was back, my call logs, my texts, my phonebook, EVERYTHING. Awesome and just the way I would want it to work. Kudos to RIM.

So back to the shittyness of T-mobile, I called their customer service people and told them what had happened, and went over my billing history. Since January (when I switched from my sidekick), I had spent over $4000 with t-mobile! This is ridiculous. I got on with a supervisor and went over everything, and basically told them I didn’t really care about the money but spending $400 a month for a phone is just stupid, and if they didn’t figure out a way to make it more reasonable I would just leave. The lady went back and forth, then finally backdated a messaging plan on my account, and credited me $100. Wheeeeeeeeee. I hate t-mobile’s customer service but I am kind of having to accept the fact that all mobile companies suck and I should just be content with my new $120/mo unlimited plan. Now that I have vented, I think I can.

Read great essays on cell phones including one on cell phone history  at HistoricalTextArchive.com. 

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In what could be considered possibly the greatest news of all time, Southwest is planning in-flight wifi. Looks like it will be an “additional revenue item” so they will definitely be charging extra for it, but who cares. Can I skype? Can I webex? Can I turn that 45 minute flight to vegas into something productive? Can’t wait to see.

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Added some new quotes to the site:

“Life’s simple, you make choices and you don’t look back.” Han, from the movie The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Yeah I know, I know, fast and furious. But I liked the quote, pretty relevant at the moment.

“Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours.” Swedish Proverb.. good words to live by.

In case you never noticed them there are always random quotes on the right sidebar, and you can check them out randomly here.

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