Okay I have metro. There is...and i repeat...absoutly nothing wrong with metro. When I started out with metro I had a sprint phone, because i flashed it. The only thing you can get with another service phone(if it's not from metro), is unlimited texting, and you know unlimited minutes. No internet, no ringtones, blah blah. But just recently my phone broke so I got a phone from metro(the most expensive one almost 300$, slide up razor). You basically get EVERYTHING...FREE! Besides the monthly fee of your plan you choose. Everyone i know has switched to metro. It's the best thing I've ever done... =].