Question about Celluar phones and Services?

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I want a new cellar phone without the contract. I want to purchase the Smart Phone with Android from Samsung. I want t o purchase my own phone without the 2 year contract! Now my questions we have the satelites all around us and the phone lines and wifi all around us, can't we just hock into them without paying these darn celluar company's? I am frustrated and pissed cause Sprint receptions sucks! HELP! ENLIGTHEN ME!

joe r · Accepted Answer

this really confuses me... 

what satellites are all around you? satellites are miles up in space... 

sure, many people have WiFi hotspots, but usually they put security on their network, and it is their internet that they pay for... 

cell phone companies spend billions, with a B, of dollars for network infrastructure, cell phone towers, radio spectrum licenses from the FCC, T1 and fiber optic backbones to the cell sites, diesel generators for back up power at the cell sites, microwave links, and on top of all of that they need to pay to terminate the calls... 

so please enlighten me - why should they give service away for free that cost them so much money to install, upgrade, and maintain? 

if sprint service is not that good in your area, then check the coverage maps of the other major carriers in your area such as sprint, at&t and tmobile (all of the other smaller MVNOs will use one of their towers) if no one has good cell phone service where you live, then it is time to move from the middle of no where... 

not really sure what this sense of entitlement for free phone cellular phone service has to do with LAND PHONES... but regardless... here are the prepaid cell phone rates for many of the carriers, updated about a month ago  http://blog.nyphonejacks.com/2011/05/blog-post.html

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