<p>Shawneee, thank you very much! Yeah I gathered they’re not that popular but they’re cheap, it seems, I can’t believe Verizon and others are like $50 a month? My phone in the UK is like $25 a month and it’s free everything, and it’s a great phone… anyway. and I’m only staying for 9 months so I need a monthly contract, too. </p>
<p>I’m at Warwick university. It’s awesome, I love it.</p>
<p>The $50 should be including data. In the United States, buying a subsidized “smartphone” means you take on contractual data obligations as well. -.-</p>
<p>I don’t know where all this T-Mobile hate is coming from. The network is actually very popular among teens in Los Angeles. It has propelled the popularity of a number of otherwise unappealing phones such as the Sidekick and the MyTouch. </p>
<p>Using UCLA as a measuring stick is unfair to the network as the school often requires extraordinary reception. UCLA is not the standard its the exception.</p>
<p>I was paying over $60 dollars with VZW and didn’t have any data, only unlimited text messages which is why I cancelled.</p>
<p>I’m not hating on T-Mobile, it was the first phone company I went to because it was cheap but the service was horrible. I guess for the price that’s what I got. I’m sure the service has gotten better (I hope) but after their fail customer service, I couldn’t deal with it anymore.</p>
<p>I’m gonna be brutally honest here: AT&T will frustrate you sometimes. I get good reception while walking around campus and little to no reception while walking within buildings. WGYOUNG CS24, 50, and 76 get no reception, as well as numerous other lecture halls. I get little to no reception in my dorm room, Courtside, northside (C4 and C5 houses). As I recall from orientation, I got absolutely no signal unless I was next to a window or at the ends of the building.</p>
<p>My experiences of AT&T on a LG VU CU920 and an iPhone 3G.</p>
<p>Funny story about dropped calls on the iPhone: I was walking out in the open in the middle of campus with full reception and the iPhone kept dropping my calls.</p>
<p>Unrelated/relevant at the same time:</p>
<p>Make sure you guys get your discounts (if your carriers have them). You should be able to get one of at least 10% using your ucla.edu address. However, I’m not sure of the procedure for most of them (although I did mine for T-Mobile) so you’ll have to look into that yourself.</p>