So my exclusivity contract with Sprint is up the end of the month, which is cool, because Sprint's about exhausted my loyalty. Problem is, the current selection out there makes Sprint look like the Obama to everyone else's Romney. As aggravated as I am with the black carrier, everyone else is fucking unacceptable:
* Verizon's plans are a hedge game that challenge you to predict exactly how much data you're going to use monthly for the next two years. Go under, and you just paid for fucking bunk; go over, and Verizon auto-molests you with a 50% markup.
* AT&T just tells you how much data you're going to use and if you go over, it throws you off a cliff.
* T-Mobile stole several hundred dollars from me through my parents and will never, ever, ever see another fucking cent from my bank account.
The thing is, I don't really need unlimited data; I probably would never go over 3GB even if Sprint's network did cover every, or even any single fucking place I go to. But I don't appreciate having a completely invisible ceiling over my head, and a smiling man waiting for me to accidentally touch it so he can brutally shank me and twist the knife. A straightforward, non-punitive pay-as-you-go plan would be nice - you know, the kind that everybody turned out to be willing to settle with when we did this exact same song and dance with talking minutes, and then again with text? How many times are we going to play this fucking Calvinball bullshit with mobile services?
Well, anyway, fuck it; it turns out that if you don't want to take the increasingly pitiful subsidies for new phones, you don't really have to sign a contract with anyone for service, so for now I'm just gonna coast along on what I have until something that isn't T-Mobile gets surgery for its RCI.