So I got an iPhone as an early birthday present. I hadn’t been planning on getting a new phone but my calls just kept cutting out in my apartment on sprint and then I ended up losing my phone. Since my contract was about to end I took the opportunity to switch over and get an iPhone. Not only is it just really fucking awesome I can also actually talk to people from my apartment.

The downside is that sprint is utterly fucking evil. My contract with them expired on the 25th of august, i.e., august was my last month of service. I’m like fine I’ll pay them the money for august and be on my way but no they refused to let me pay the money for august and told me that if I tried to use number portability before then I would be charged the full $200 for breaking my contract. I’m fairly sure this is illegal in several respects (according to the contract terms number porting didn’t qualify as breaking the contract) and I probably could have fought my way to getting my number transfered but it was just more difficult to fight with them then to get a new number so my number is now 510.457.5716.

This was only the latest in a long list of evil and sometimes illegal behavior by sprint. From the guy at the sprint store refusing to even try the number I wanted because he disapproved (it had 666 in it) to their fraudulent refusal to give me palm treo the unlimited data rate that applied to all non windows ME devices (a representation I had relied on when signing my contract with them). I was trapped with them for many years because of my treo but now I’m free and I will never purchase service from sprint again for any reason.