straight talk wireless vs verizon wireless

Rkh

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Have verizon cell now and neighbor got straight talk from Walmart and you get unlimited internet, text, and phone. Anybody have experience with straight talk?
 
I have it, had verizion, $45 bucks a month unlimited everything, better service than I had before and my Internet is faster, you can get about any phone verizion has through strait talk, I just switched because it basically cut my bill in half and I now have everything unlimited.
 
I have had Staight talk for about 2 1/2 years now and I have no complaints at all. Prior to that I had Verizon for many years and the price would go up everytime I renewed my contract. The biggest reason I left Verizon was because of poor customer service. I have no regrets switching to straight talk.
 
It's a long story but the customer service at straight talk has only brain dead idiots. If you ever have any problem at all with the phone you might as well throw the phone in the trash. I had one that wore out and replaced it with the same model phone and their customer service people could not transfer the service and phone number to the new phone. After six weeks of trying to get them to resolve this problem I threw the phone in the trash and went with AT&T. It takes so long because every time there needs to be a change or fix a screw up they have to mail you a sim card and call them to activate it. They sent me a sim card 4 times before I gave up.
 
I got Page Plus cellular. Pre pay but use the Verizon network. $40 a month for everything, $5 more for a smart phone. Works great in my area. Verizon is overpriced and those 2 year contracts are a ripoff.
 
(quoted from post at 00:53:58 08/30/14) Have verizon cell now and neighbor got straight talk from Walmart and you get unlimited internet, text, and phone. Anybody have experience with straight talk?

Straight Talk is a Tracfone company. They use either Verizon, AT&T, or Tmobile (not as sure on Tmobile, but I -think- so). So the coverage will be basically the same as those, and depend on the reception quality of the phone. If their phone says cdma and does not have a SIM card, it's Verizon service.

I've been on prepaid for 14+ years and never had a serious issue. Tracfone most of that time, Pageplus the last couple years (which Tracfone also just bought out). I also have a Straight Talk home phone connect device with no issues. Their customer service is, ...lacking, that said I've ALWAYS gotten done what I needed to do. But I stopped using the phone support options (always worked, I just have great difficulty with thick accents). Tracfone/Straight Talk has a web forum you can use, and you can PM them, or you can email them, or you can do the web chat thing. Don't care for the chat, but used it last time transferring phones, instructions/codes one step at a time, worked fine. Unless you have a lot of issues with phones, the phone and service would be as reliable as whatever carrier you are activated on. And if you have SIM card service, if you have phone issues, just move the SIM card to another unlocked/proper kind of phone.

I don't use many minutes. I got the yearly plans all the time with Tracfone and never used all the minutes. Now I have Pageplus, I have one flip phone that is my "beater" phone for around the place, waterproof, tough, etc. And I have a smartphone for town so I can look stuff up if need be, handy for directions, etc. I have each on $10 every 4 months and that's more than enough for me, you can activate smartphones without a data or text plan with Page plus, it just deducts $ if you use Internet, or you can connect at hotspots (or activate a data plan...).
 
I've got the Straight Talk too, and wouldn't go back to a contract carrier. I crunched 2 phones and neither time did I have any trouble getting the service switched to the new phone. People I talked to also knew how to speak English. The only real issue I've had was with their automated system adding airtime, it's a voice-recognition deal and it makes you try 3 or 4 times before transferring you to a real person or allowing you to enter the numbers with the keypad.

If it doesn't take a sim card, make sure you have the number from your current phone saved, because you need it to move the service to another phone.
 

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