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Originally Posted by booklover6
Interesting. I was going to switch us from AT&T GoPhone to regular AT&T with a data plan. But we are just going to stick with GoPhone. I ordered a card cutter, all I have to do is cut the cards to fit in the Fire Phone. Same account, no activation fee for that.
AT&T is not the only company that charges activation fees. I was looking at some other companies (not the big 4) and lots of them charge to activate. Disgusting.
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AT&T and Verizon together tend to lead the front on adding new fees though. They seem to be of the attitude they're just the best thing since sliced bread and and everyone will be happy to pay them more and more money for the privilege of having cellular service with them. One of these days they're going to go too far and lose customers in droves.
Have you looked into AT&T Virtual Network Operators (aka, resellers)? Some of them can save you money and have much better policies and customer services. They just resell AT&T's network, so you get the same network coverage you already have with AT&T direct, and you should be able to keep your phones.
I have US Cellular myself, and they used to be
great. But in the past year they've started acting more like AT&T and killing everything even remotely nice. We got Dad a new phone a few months back and were told then we could only use our loyalty plan points to upgrade if we switched plans. To one with less data overall, for more money. (They wanted us to go from a plan with 5gb per line to one with 6gb total
pooled.) And then the next month they announced they were killing the loyalty program entirely. Because nothing says "we care about our customers" like destroying the loyalty programs, right?
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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
Let us know how the card cutter works.
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I've not used one myself, but have some friends who have, including one who cut it out manually with scissors. They work well. Doing it manually is trickier, but still quite doable. Just be careful what parts of the card you cut!