Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Bah/Argh
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2006 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.
I am looking for an impossible thing, I think. I want to switch to a cell phone service that has pretty good reception in Manhattan and Astoria, that does not have an indelible reputation for horrifyingly bad customer service, and that I can trust to not collude with unconstitutional power trips by government officials to invade my privacy without warrant, cause, etc. AT&T and Cingular fail, Verizon fails the privacy requirement too, and I've never heard glorious things about Sprint, Verizon, or Nextel. Is there such a service? Could and should someone start one?
Comments
Zack
http://zwol.livejournal.com/
22 Jun 2006, 12:08 p.m.
Sumana
22 Jun 2006, 16:55 p.m.
Oho! Neat! Thank you! I think I would be willing to deal with blind spots in reception to use Working Assets.
You might want to look into the wireless plans from Working Assets. Julia had them for long distance land-line service and they were good on the customer service front. They're reselling other people's cell networks (mainly Sprint, I think) so they would insulate you from bad customer service there. Unfortunately that also means you're at the mercy of the underlying service as far as reception goes. I don't see any statements about privacy, but I think if you asked they would respond positively.