To spend our precious time here together moaning about how royally screwed up our cellphone companies are here in the States would at this point be too easy. You know the drill: Half-assed handsets, crippled functionality, spotty signals, dumbfounding user interfaces, outrageously priced call plans, incomprehensible outsourced customer service reps from a far-off land, and lets not even talk about the indentured servitude contracts. No, the topic is cliché at this point, so today Id like to take a positive spin on things.
I travel around a fair bit to countries other than the US. I tried to get a US phone that I could use in other places and that was a joke. I ended up buying an unlocked phone overseas, getting a SIM chip and airtime for less than what I would have paid just for the phone here! I think it is time for us "peasants" to revolt and refuse to sign into contracts that we can't get out of without paying an arm and a leg. Like the grouse says, when your contract runs out, don't sign up for another one. If a few million of us do that maybe we can get their attention! I don't mind paying a fair price for what I use. But, I don't like paying for what I don't, like unused minutes. Rise up, I say, rise up! We peasants are revolting.……ah, you know what I mean!
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