OT: Cell phone service providers

[Ari Becker]

As far as I'm concerned, Golan should be the default. I call and am called
by relatives in the US so their price and features are unbeatable. Their
service is great and so is the online control panel.

I haven't had problems with SMS with Golan, but honestly, these days
everyone uses Whatsapp anyways. I do sometimes suffer from dropped calls,
but it's not that big a deal.

The only carrier I could imagine switching to is Orange, since they're
going to put up their LTE network soon enough, but without a true unlimited
option under Orange, what's the point?

The only thing I could really ask from Golan is to stay competitive with
LTE and allow me to pay more for a true unlimited plan.
On Feb 11, 2014 4:27 PM, "Mord Behar" <mordbe0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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