I am done with AT&T…

I’ve been with AT&T for phone service for years, never really happy with their service, but, well, inertia. I didn’t start with AT&T. Once upon a time, I was with Cellular One, which was bought out by Singular, which in turn was swallowed by AT&T.  

I was about to jettison them when we moved to the lake, but Verizon was inordinately more expensive for what we were get and the other carrier I the area with better service could not port over our long ago assigned phone numbers.  So we stayed.

Then my sister gave mom her iPhone 6 when her work updated her to an XR. That 6 wasn’t compatible with her Verizon CDMA network, so I added mom to my family plan, cementing us to AT&T for a while longer.   My other sister upgraded mom’s couple of months ago & added her to my sister's Verizon account, so no longer was I stuck with what we had.   Finding out recently about AT&T’s behind the scenes sponsorship of OAN was the last straw. I’m done with them.  

Research began.  

Then our internet went down for six hours recently and along with it our phones. Did I mention because our AT&T signal here, without wifi at the house we’re dead in the water? Well when Xfinity went down, and our power didn’t, we lost phone. Enough is enough.

I looked over the MVNOs that run off of Verizon towers, since anyone visiting who has Verizon has service here, to see what was available. The best deal was to bundle with our already present Xfinity service.   I looked at 1/2 a dozen different companies and given our data usage is minimal (less than a gig a month between the two of us), our new plan includes 2 lines with 2 gigs of data that’s shared, plus a new iPhone 13 for me, for $56/month. We’ll bring over my iPhone XR, which gets as a $200 gift card, ditch my husband’s 6Splus which needed upgrading, all for less than 1/2 of what AT&T was costing.  When the iPhone13 is paid off in 24 months, assuming the data plan is sufficient for us, it will drop to $30 a month.

Now I have no illusions that Xfinity is a politically blameless company, certainly not as long as Fox is bundled to our service, but at least the will be getting less of my cash proportionally, leaving me with an extra $66 each month, money I can use for supporting things I believe in and that’s a damned good thing.