No one should ever get AT&T. When I was in high school, my parents bought a family plan that, we were told, would be useable in our area. We were concerned since they didn't have a tower nearby. What happened was we had to pay ridiculous roaming charges for using Verizon's tower, then AT&T cut our plan off completely and with no notice. Fast forward to a few years later... my parents wanted an iPhone (before they became available via Verizon,) and checked to see, should they buy it with AT&T, that we would get fair coverage without having to pay roaming fees. They said we were safe and that the bull**** that had happened only years before would not again. But that was a lie. A few months into the service, my parents and sisters (who shared the plan,) were all told they'd be disconnected if they continue to use the phones in the area where my parents and I live. So, not only had it played out the same way as it did before, but now they were threatening to cut my sisters' lines... and they live in a signal-heavy town! They tried to keep us paying monthly, but forebode us from using our phones... They even suggested that we buy a Magic Jack to fill in the period where we weren't permitted to use the service, but were still forced to pay for it. They told use that if we waited it out till March, they would have had a tower up in our area. There's still no tower, but my family did switch over to Verizon and haven't had one problem since.