Close to 2 years ago I mentioned in here about my shitty GSM service I was getting from Cellular One in Wisconsin. Surprisingly around Christmas last year a new tower was put up and the reception has improved tremendously. This was a deciding factor in where I was going to go for cell service when my contract was up. I’ve always preferred the packages that Cell One offered me but when I went to GSM the reception was so horrible in some parts that digital was great in, I was greatly disappointed. It shouldn’t have taken two years to put up a tower but now that it’s up I still have my plan and I also have reception to boot. I know if reception hadn’t been improved, I would have gone to another provider, which means Alltel because there really isn’t much of anything up here in bumfuck northern Wisconsin. I’m sure if I was in Milwaukee, I could probably have my choice of providers like Cingular or Sprint but up here it’s like which one do you want, this one or the other one? There are of course multiple locations that offer Cell One and multiple locations that offer Alltel although I’m pretty sure they are all connected, I guess we just have multiple locations to lead us into the illusion that we have many options.
Anyway, I think I was telling a story here. New cell phone contract equals new cell phone of course. I usually always go with the free phone because I’m a cheap bastard, but this time I paid $80 more and got a Nokia flip phone with a camera built in… a camera I might add I’ll probably never use unless I accidentally find myself in the women’s locker room at my local gym. I do like the phone which is of course the reason I picked it out although I’m having the same problem I had before, finding a ring I can live with. I like my phone to ring, not sing as I probably mentioned last time I got a new phone. This little fucker doesn’t have a normal ring anywhere that I can find on it, all it has is a shitload of shitty musical numbers, one of which I’ll have to pick and live with because as I mentioned before; I’m a cheap bastard. $1.99 for a ring tone, think again.