Here it is…I have been an AT&T cellular customer for about 3 years, that being said, my contract has been up for quite some time now. I would like to switch to Cingular to get their nation wide rollover plan 450 minutes/month, although this is lower than the 600 I’m getting now, I still don’t use 450/month at my current rate of talking.

LetsTalk.com has a great site, inwhich you can choose phones and plans, and greater discounts on phones than you’ll ever get through the cellular company directly. For example, the phone I want is the Seimens C61, on a two-year plan with cingular the phone is $9.99 (after $10 mail-in rebate). I personally hate mail in rebates, they are a huge hassle which I often forget about, or finding directions on what to include are non-existant.

On LetsTalk, I found the same phone is free (before $50 mail in rebate) and this is true even for a 1-year contract, not the required two-year plan by cingular in the Cingular stores. For the Seimens C61 on a 1-year contract at the cingular store the phone is a grotesque $69.99 (no rebates).

Furthermore, LetTalks does offer a $50 rebate on the phone, ontop of the initial cost of $0 for the phone. So they are basically paying you $50 to take this phone with your 1-year plan!

As far as working a better deal on the minutes, etc. You’re pretty much stuck with the standard packages. At the Cingular store they were unwilling to give me a better deal.

NOw to Why the AT&T and Cingular Merger Sucks….the only way I can port my current AT&T number to Cingular is to do it directly through Cingular. I cannot port my number between the two companies on LetTalks.com orders. I went into my local Cingular store and asked why, and they said AT&T and Cingular are now considered one company, and switching plans is considered an upgrade, not a new plan. This is a load of crap, since absolutely, they are two seperate phone companies operating as one, seperate pricing plans, seperate cellular networks (I can only get AT&T service at work - not Cingular, and only Cingular at home, not AT&T).

So I think I’m going to dump my current phone number, as much as I hate having to go back to all the companies who send me bills and inform them, it’s still better than paying $70 for a phone that LetTalks.com is willing to give you $50 to take, and agreeing to a 1-year contract instead of 2 years.

Something to cheer you up!

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Here are the lyrics in both Romanian and English

Here’s another video after the one above gained popularity, all the students in the class are dancing along with him:

class lipsyncing

Here’s a few more additions to Chovy’s Joke List.

Car vs. Telephone Wires in Texas

I read that cars would soon be communicating with each other over IP, to relay traffic congestion status and other hazards among each other…is this what they meant?

Car Communications Prototype

…and in a related story…

Can your SUV Lexus with hitech steering dodge this? (like in the commercial, where it swerves out of the way of an oversized pebble on the road).