and really bad customer service.
Last month we decided that it was time to change mobile carriers. Doing some simple math, we figured out that we were paying T-Mobile for 2 cell phones plus a really old @Home line that hasn’t even worked for 6-9 months, Verizon for 3G data service on my Galaxy Tab and Jitterbug/Great Call for a “senior friendly” phone for my mother-in-law.
In mid-September, I got an offer from Credo Mobile that not only offered much better rates than T-Mobile, but offered to pay my contract termination fee, too. Since Mom’s phone and the Tab data service were both month-to-month, plus we would be signing up with Credo (service by Sprint but company run by Working Assets, look them up), this was too good to pass up. So I took the plunge, ordered 2 Android phones for myself and Chris, a decent Sanyo flip phone for Mom and ported our numbers over to Credo. The @Home number, which was for work anyway, I ported to my Asterisk phone switch service provider so it rings into our work phone system. Read the rest of this entry »