before AT&T bought Bellsouth and the coverage area the AT&T network worked just fine. Since that time several years ago the service has degraded to the point that 3G is completely unusable (I have gone as far as turn it off so it doesnt keep draining my battery) and over the last several weeks EDGE hasn't been much better.

Now with the events of this week there is literally no service where I live in AL while Verizon users are happily talking, texting, emailing along.

Someone explain to me why I am getting charged $100 a month for a service that sucks this badly.