ATT CS Just told us to switch to Straight Talk

[NL5]

Yep, They said they were expensive, and the CS rep said she was gonna switch to Straight Talk too. So, wondering how everyone's experience has been with Straight Talk. Especially if you are in the Portland, OR Metro area.

I can't believe they can be that honest about their over-priced service, but at least they are offering better alternatives to their customers. I'm sure they still make their money off Straight Talk.

 

[jpeyton]

I'm in Portland using Straight Talk on a GS3. I've been with Straight Talk for over a year now.

HSDPA "4G" speeds on Straight Talk are just as fast as AT&T post-paid in my experience. Web pages load fast on my GS3.

 

[NL5]

I'm in Portland using Straight Talk on a GS3. I've been with Straight Talk for over a year now.

HSDPA "4G" speeds on Straight Talk are just as fast as AT&T post-paid in my experience. Web pages load fast on my GS3.

Awesome. I'm looking for a GS3 right now, and I think we are gonna take ATT's advice and switch to straight talk. It's cheaper, and you get more. I'm on a 200mb plan right now. So is the wife. Two dumb phones. Unlimited texts, and 450 minutes to share is costing almost $200.

Do they have plans for non-smart phones?

 

[jpeyton]

Awesome. I'm looking for a GS3 right now, and I think we are gonna take ATT's advice and switch to straight talk. It's cheaper, and you get more. I'm on a 200mb plan right now. So is the wife. Two dumb phones. Unlimited texts, and 450 minutes to share is costing almost $200.

Do they have plans for non-smart phones?

They have a $30 1000min/1000text/30MB plan, not worth it IMO. $15 extra and you're unlimited everything (well, data is "unlimited" but likely capped around 2GB just like AT&T post-paid).

I got my GS3 off Craigslist. If you're on a tighter budget, I've been checking prices and you can pick up two GS2s for the price of one GS3. The GS2 is still quite the phone; it has Android 4.0 stock just like the GS3 and runs fast.

 

[Ravynmagi]

Yep, They said they were expensive, and the CS rep said she was gonna switch to Straight Talk too.

It wasn't this guy, was it?

 

[ImDonly1]

Few things:

1. Their CS is awful. By awful I mean you won't ever get anything done even if you spend 2 hours of phone with them and get transferred to managers.

2. They throttle at unspecified amounts. Unthrottling can be easy if you get a good rep on facebook or impossible if you get a bad one. They also don't automatically unthrottle at the end of the month.

3. The data has been unreliable for me and many other people. As in, it won't work at all unless you toggle airplane mode on/off a few times. It will work for a little and then stop again. It seems to have gotten better lately, maybe even fixed, but I am still skeptical of it.
http://www.howardforum.com/showthre...t-Talk-AT-amp-T-Data-Issues-Since-August-13th
Thread says Aug 13th, but it's been a little longer than that for me.

I am using an iPhone 4 on ST for maybe a year now. The data issues have been really annoying and so has their CS, I have considered switching to T-mobile prepaid because of it. But the building I am in during the day only gets coverage from ATT and I'd have to sell my phone and buy a new one. If the data is reliable again I'll stay with ST.

 

[ponyo]

Awesome. I'm looking for a GS3 right now, and I think we are gonna take ATT's advice and switch to straight talk. It's cheaper, and you get more. I'm on a 200mb plan right now. So is the wife. Two dumb phones. Unlimited texts, and 450 minutes to share is costing almost $200.

Do they have plans for non-smart phones?

https://www.straighttalk.com/secure/ServicePlans

$30 a month for 1,000 minutes, 1,000 texts, and 30mb of data

Wife and I are on Straight Talk AT&T. I'm using Galaxy Nexus and wife is currently using Samsung Captivate but I just bought her iPhone 4S off of Ebay for her to use. We're in Atlanta so AT&T signal here is great since AT&T Mobility is headquartered in Atlanta. I'm ok with paying $90 a month for two phones. I'm doing month to month instead of 3 month plan since I do not want to be tied down to Straight Talk. The extra couple dollars a month in savings for buying 3 months is not worth it.

 

[ImDonly1]

https://www.straighttalk.com/secure/ServicePlans

$30 a month for 1,000 minutes, 1,000 texts, and 30mb of data

Wife and I are on Straight Talk AT&T. I'm using Galaxy Nexus and wife is currently using Samsung Captivate but I just bought her iPhone 4S off of Ebay for her to use. We're in Atlanta so AT&T signal here is great since AT&T Mobility is headquartered in Atlanta. I'm ok with paying $90 a month for two phones. I'm doing month to month instead of 3 month plan since I do not want to be tied down to Straight Talk. The extra couple dollars a month in savings for buying 3 months is not worth it.

Also, you can't bring your own phone with their $30 plan. You have to use their phones.
The $45 plan you can just buy a SIM and use whatever you want.

 

[ponyo]

Also, you can't bring your own phone with their $30 plan. You have to use their phones.
The $45 plan you can just buy a SIM and use whatever you want.

Oh, I didn't know that. Good to know. Not that I would buy the $30 plan. We don't use lot of data but 30mb is far too restrictive.

As for data problems with AT&T MVNOs, yeah I noticed horrible data speeds in middle of August. It was to the point of being unusable for most of the month. But it cleared up recently and it seems fine now for the most part. If it starts up again, I can always leave Straight Talk AT&T and jump to T-Mobile $30 100 minutes 5GB prepaid. That's the best part of having pentaband phone like the Galaxy Nexus and Google Voice number. I'm not tied down to one GSM carrier and any phone number and can jump back and forth between AT&T and T-Mobile much as I want. I don't even know my Straight Talk phone number as everything gets rerouted to my Google Voice number.

 

[s44]

I hope the LTE iPhone 5 launch eases the pressure on AT&T's HSPA+ network.

If you're not going LTE I'd look for a T-mobile S2 or S3. These work on both 850/1900 and 1700/2100 so you can go back and forth on the GSM carriers.

 

[NL5]

I got my GS3 off Craigslist. If you're on a tighter budget, I've been checking prices and you can pick up two GS2s for the price of one GS3. The GS2 is still quite the phone; it has Android 4.0 stock just like the GS3 and runs fast.

Yep, just got one off CL this evening. Trying to get everything switched over from my old phone. Probably gonna make the switch later in the week to ST.

Thanks!