[RTC List] Wireless advice

[M Welch]

Is the takeover of North American wireless by AT&T a fait accompli, or are there other viable options out there for Humboldters that travel the U.S.? I was just about resigned to ATT, but I thought I would put this out there.

I hate ATT, but do I have any other reasonable choices? They bought out my company (Edge Wireless) and are closing it down this spring, and now they are offering me a worse national plan at higher costs and are insisting that our 5 gsm phones on our plan will need to be replaced. (BTW, we were forced to buy those phones awhile back after ATT started buying into Edge, and they switched mobile comm standards.)

Who else? I need good local coverage a little north and east of McKinleyville, and good national service, mostly in Sacramento and occasionally NYC.

"We don't care, we don't have to...we're the phone company." Ernestine