What Cell Service also uses ATT? Want cheaper service :)

[paysensmom]

We are moving to a place that only ATT has coverage. Is there a cheaper company that uses ATT towers? I want to get a smart phone, maybe the iphone 4 or infuse. Not sure exactly. BUT, ATT is EXPENSIVE!!!!

 

[SandrA9810]

I don't find AT&T service to be that expensive. Although most the users that have AT&T have been long time customers, way back when it was Bellsouth (Southern Bell, or whatever Bell it was for you), then branched it to Cingular, and then AT&T bought over the whole deal. My contract was created with Cingular, so I've got more minutes for the same price as the cheap package now. As long as I don't change something, but rates don't change for what I have. Like it's still only $20 for unlimited family texting. With thousands sitting in rollover minutes, it would be stupid to pay $10 more for the current on that includes free mobile to mobile.

For family plan though, you're generally looking at over a $100 with any provider.
59.99 is the cheapest minute plan you can get for the family plan (550 minutes)
- nights and weekends free
- free calls to other AT&T users
- rollover minutes - any minutes you don't use, continuously roll on a 6 month period
9.99 for each additional line
30.00 for unlimited texting on all lines, plus free mobile to mobile calling (any carrier)
15.00 for each smart phone data plan.

With free mobile to mobile calling, and rollovers, it's likely you can go with a cheap minute package and not go over. They're also good at backdating a service. Say you pay for a package of 500 texts per month for $5, each additional is a quarter. All of sudden you get a bill for 1000 texts. That's a lot in overages. So you can call, and ask them to back date your account to include the unlimited texting at $30. Which can save you a big headache.

I know they say AT&T is like the lowest in service and customer support, but I've always had helpful people, that were nice. Most the time any issue could be resolved in a matter of minutes. Plus I get service while at Yosemite, and my bf doesn't get anything on his Sprint phone. I've also done quite a bit of road traveling, and haven't had an issue so far with connection.

 

[PhillyMc]

Right now your options for post paid are AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint. For pre paid you can go with the likes of Boost and them but right now there are fewer and fewer choices. As for an iPhone you only have AT&T and Verizon to choose from. T-mobile the iPhone is not offered and its 3g does not work witht he iPhone. There may be a local celluar company in that area you will have to visit the local mall/s and see what is there. Personally AT&T is not to bad price wise depending on what you really want/need in a phone. When do you make a lot of your calls? If you can hold off till 9pm you have unlimited nights and weekends. If you can only hold off till 7pm you can pay to have nights and weekends start sooner. If you use it a lot during the day they do offer unlimited or large package of mins. A good thing they also have is rollover mins, so if you don't use all of your mins in a month they are added to the next month. Personally I'd sit down with a rep in a store and price everything out and dont forget that the gov't has it fee's and taxes.

 

[RitaE]

According to this chart
http://www.cellguru.net/prepaid_compare.htm

Net10
o2 Wireless
Airvoice

and then ATT Prepaid itself

 

[crazelion]

Straighttalk uses ATT towers. go to howardfourms and click on the straight talk and it will explain it all too.

 

[crazelion]

ATT just got pre-paid plan that 50.00 dollars that include unlimited minutes/text/3g data plan .

 

[ShiPooOwner]

We are moving to a place that only ATT has coverage. Is there a cheaper company that uses ATT towers? I want to get a smart phone, maybe the iphone 4 or infuse. Not sure exactly. BUT, ATT is EXPENSIVE!!!!

We have Consumer Cellular. Love them! Very reasonable monthly charges, they use ATT towers, and do NOT require a longterm contract. Would never go back to ATT or any company requiring a contract. We had ATT but found them their customer service to be the pits. Would never go with ATT again after such poor treatment.