John,
We've had T-mobile for several years now and are happy with it. Coverage it good, but with any company you will always find some dead areas. Its $70 a month and includes free long distance, unlimited calls between phones and enough regular minutes that we've never gone over. We never use the hous phone for long distance anymore, just the cell phones. I shut the damn thing off when I'm out fishing (sorry dear I was out of range
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