We've had both AT&T (before cingular's buy out.... ugh) and verizon. Locally at&t was the best for us. Then cingular bought them and our service tanked... so we just went without for about 2 years, until my hubby got a job about an hour away. We went with VZW because we have a friend who txts and calls every 2 mins (lol) and has vzw. Every other provider wanted a down payment. VZW didn't. And we caught our phones on sale. We pay about $110 month, got 700 mins between us, nights and weekends, and unlim txt to vzw custs and 500 non vzw. It's perfect for us. We paid about the same for ONE phone on at&t, and there were no txts, and like 250 mins.
deb