Was just getting up to date on all my feeds. Noticed this morning that Cingular now has a new class action lawsuit against them during my read of Ars.

I’m all for this one. I mean I used to be a AT&T customer. I was still with them during the big transition period with Cingular. In the end I went through this long drawn out ordeal with them to finally cancel what was meant to be a month to month service. Turns out that I was wrongly put on a year long contract even though I only purchased just a SIM card and was told that I wouldn’t be on a contract. Making things worse is that they wanted written proof from the store manager that it was their mistake. The final nail in the coffin was when I was told by one of the employees that the manger wasn’t going to be in for 4 hours and that I should just go home, go to their website make my own letter head and sign with all the managers information forging his signature. I ended up contacting the BBB and the FCC. Cingular ended up sending a collection agency after me despite having the entire thing contested for over 6 months. In the end I still ended up paying the early termination fee just to have the entire thing ended. So yeah, there’s a short history with me and Cingular and T-Mobile with the T-Mobile to Go prepaid service:

The end of all decent mobile providers in the US is here. T-Mobile begin charging to receive SMS.
T-Mobile to Go, definitely my cheapest option for mobile phone service.
Cingular is trying to screw me once again.
Step 1, buy T-Mobile PAYG SIM
Switching from Cingular to T-Mobile’s Pay As You Go
Switching from one evil to another…
Finally freed, Audiovox SMT5600 unlocked from the devil, AT&T/Cingular

So in the end… so much for all mobile providers in the US. They’re all useless.

Tags: Ideas, Rants