OT: Cell phone service providers

[Mord Behar]

Sorry for the OT, but I need to tap the hive-mind of like-minded people.
It's that time of life again, and we need to rethink and renegotiate our
cell phone plans. This time, there are more than just the "big three".
I know that Rami Levy is just subcontracting for Pelephone, HomeCellular is
subcontracting for Cellcom and YouPhone is subcontracting for Orange
(Partner).
Golan seems to be the only "real" company, willing to invest in their own
infrastructure (currently have installed several hundred antennas
country-wide) and in the mean time is using Cellcom's infrastructure.
Comparing prices and plans is easy, and they all more or less offer similar
plans.
So, my question is: what kind of experience have you had with your cell
phone service provider? (Any of them, but preferably I'd like to hear about
the new companies).
I've heard that text messages on Golan are unreliable (the sender is on
Golan, I lack sufficient data about the receivers). Someone told me that
her messages will be received at the other end with no guarantees
whatsoever. Sometimes they'd be received normally, sometimes after a large
delay (hours, days, in one case weeks) and often they are received jumbled
(parts of two messages mashed together to form something incoherent or
embarrassing). Has anybody else had this experience? Or similar experiences?
Thank you.
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