Which phone company is best in your opinion?

For me it's been AT&T (I have a pre-paid smartphone through them). Verizon, Straight Talk, Net 10, Tracfone, T-Mobile, etc. have all been terrible and way overpriced for what you get, not to mention the worst customer service ever. AT&T has been amazing for me, my mom, my sister, etc.

Have you talked to other people in your area to see what they think is best? "The best" phone company tends to vary based on where you live (around here most people say it's Verizon because they/Alltel were the only ones with towers in our area for years).

T Mobile

Virgin mobile is not the best but it works for me. I just use it for calls and sometimes texts and pay $30/month

I hate At & T but they are probably the best service but NOT CUSTOMER SERVICE (they suck at that).

ATT

You'd need to look at coverage area maps for your area and where you plan on traveling. My family and I have been with Sprint for over 10 years. I like the everything plans, nowhere else do they include everything into one price -

I used to be with AT&T back when they were Edge wireless (unless it was just my area that was Edge). I was very very happy with them for the longest time because the nights and weekends started at 7pm rather than 9pm, and rollover minutes meant never babysitting coverage. When AT&T bought Edge everything went downhill-I spent countless hours trying to switch as I had to deal with a different representative b/c I had a discount with my employer, they tried to charge me a $700 deposit too. And I'm thinking "THIS is what I get for being loyal for 5 years?????" We were also in an area with bad coverage.

We ended up switching to Verizon b/c we live in a rural area where the cheaper phone providers do not always have coverage-PLUS I like top of the line phones (and make sure to get them free to boot). Coverage is great, unlimited talk, text, 2gb (maybe mb, not sure) of data which we come nowhere close to using, due to wifi