Announcement: Thread of The Week

[acurrie]

It's time for a new thread of the week, our way of recognizing forum members for promoting valuable discussion here.

Every weekday yours truly posts a morning briefing, including the most popular forum threads—that is, the posts with the most replies—for the previous 24 hour period. For reference, here are the briefings for the past seven days:

Your Morning Briefing for Monday, September 14th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Thursday, September 17th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Friday, September 18th, 2020

Remember that the Monday briefing includes forum posts from the prior Saturday and Sunday, so all weekend posts are similarly eligible.

In each briefing, forum posts are ranked by the number of replies (from highest to lowest). That's subject to change, of course, so I did a quick recount of replies for all forum posts in the briefings above. With 99 replies as of this posting the most popular thread started last week is:

Verizon to buy Tracfone

Congrats to thu1227 for starting our forty-second thread of the week! As a small token of our appreciation, please enjoy a month of Gold Membership on us!

[acurrie]

It's time for a new thread of the week, our way of recognizing forum members for promoting valuable discussion here.

Every weekday yours truly posts a morning briefing, including the most popular forum threads—that is, the posts with the most replies—for the previous 24 hour period. For reference, here are the briefings for the past seven days:

Your Morning Briefing for Monday, September 21st, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Thursday, September 24th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Friday, September 25th, 2020

Remember that the Monday briefing includes forum posts from the prior Saturday and Sunday, so all weekend posts are similarly eligible.

In each briefing, forum posts are ranked by the number of replies (from highest to lowest). That's subject to change, of course, so I did a quick recount of replies for all forum posts in the briefings above. With 38 replies as of this posting the most popular thread started last week is:

Roaming 311-490 (Sprint): Is it the SIM?

Congrats to DRNewcomb for starting our forty-third thread of the week! As a small token of our appreciation, please enjoy a month of Gold Membership on us!

[acurrie]

It's time for a new thread of the week, our way of recognizing forum members for promoting valuable discussion here.

Every weekday yours truly posts a morning briefing, including the most popular forum threads—that is, the posts with the most replies—for the previous 24 hour period. For reference, here are the briefings for the past seven days:

Your Morning Briefing for Monday, September 28th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Tuesday, September 29th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Wednesday, September 30th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Thursday, October 1st, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Friday, October 2nd, 2020

Remember that the Monday briefing includes forum posts from the prior Saturday and Sunday, so all weekend posts are similarly eligible.

In each briefing, forum posts are ranked by the number of replies (from highest to lowest). That's subject to change, of course, so I did a quick recount of replies for all forum posts in the briefings above. With 28 replies each the two most popular threads started last week are:

SoCal (Los Angeles North/Santa Clarita) 5G review/opinion.
Question about Pac Bell Wireless

Congrats to formercanuck and bankerdentist for our first-ever tie and forty-fourth threads of the week! As a small token of our appreciation, please enjoy a month of Gold Membership on us!

[acurrie]

It's time for a new thread of the week, our way of recognizing forum members for promoting valuable discussion here.

Every weekday yours truly posts a morning briefing, including the most popular forum threads—that is, the posts with the most replies—for the previous 24 hour period. For reference, here are the briefings for the past seven days:

Your Morning Briefing for Monday, October 5th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Thursday, October 8th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Friday, October 9th, 2020

Remember that the Monday briefing includes forum posts from the prior Saturday and Sunday, so all weekend posts are similarly eligible.

In each briefing, forum posts are ranked by the number of replies (from highest to lowest). That's subject to change, of course, so I did a quick recount of replies for all forum posts in the briefings above. With 29 replies as of this posting the most popular thread started last week is:

lol.. These are budget Androids? (Galaxy S20 FE vs Pixel 5 vs Pixel 4a)

Congrats to fstuff for our forty-fifth thread of the week! As a small token of our appreciation, please enjoy a month of Gold Membership on us!

[acurrie]

It's time for a new thread of the week, our way of recognizing forum members for promoting valuable discussion here.

Every weekday yours truly posts a morning briefing, including the most popular forum threads—that is, the posts with the most replies—for the previous 24 hour period. For reference, here are the briefings for the past seven days:

Your Morning Briefing for Monday, October 12th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Tuesday, October 13th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Wednesday, October 14th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Thursday, October 15th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Friday, October 16th, 2020

Remember that the Monday briefing includes forum posts from the prior Saturday and Sunday, so all weekend posts are similarly eligible.

In each briefing, forum posts are ranked by the number of replies (from highest to lowest). That's subject to change, of course, so I did a quick recount of replies for all forum posts in the briefings above. With 68 replies as of this posting the most popular thread started last week is:

T-mobile Experience

Congrats to buckspaul for our forty-sixth thread of the week! As a small token of our appreciation, please enjoy a month of Gold Membership on us!

[acurrie]

It's time for a new thread of the week, our way of recognizing forum members for promoting valuable discussion here.

Every weekday yours truly posts a morning briefing, including the most popular forum threads—that is, the posts with the most replies—for the previous 24 hour period. For reference, here are the briefings for the past seven days:

Your Morning Briefing for Monday, October 19th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Tuesday, October 20th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Wednesday, October 21st, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Friday, October 23rd, 2020

Remember that the Monday briefing includes forum posts from the prior Saturday and Sunday, so all weekend posts are similarly eligible.

In each briefing, forum posts are ranked by the number of replies (from highest to lowest). That's subject to change, of course, so I did a quick recount of replies for all forum posts in the briefings above. With 31 replies each the two most popular threads started last week are:

Switching back and forth between Android and IOS devices
10/27 Uncarrier announcement likely TVision related

Congrats to gjkiii and jet1000 for our second-ever tie and forty-seventh threads of the week! As a small token of our appreciation, please enjoy a month of Gold Membership on us!

[acurrie]

It's time for a new thread of the week, our way of recognizing forum members for promoting valuable discussion here.

Every weekday yours truly posts a morning briefing, including the most popular forum threads—that is, the posts with the most replies—for the previous 24 hour period. For reference, here are the briefings for the past seven days:

Your Morning Briefing for Monday, October 26th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Tuesday, October 27th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Wednesday, October 28th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Thursday, October 29th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Friday, October 30th, 2020

Remember that the Monday briefing includes forum posts from the prior Saturday and Sunday, so all weekend posts are similarly eligible.

In each briefing, forum posts are ranked by the number of replies (from highest to lowest). That's subject to change, of course, so I did a quick recount of replies for all forum posts in the briefings above. With 60 replies as of this posting the most popular thread started last week is:

Any inside scoop on CDMA retirement status?

Congrats to Pow_2k for our forty-eighth thread of the week! As a small token of our appreciation, please enjoy a month of Gold Membership on us!

[acurrie]

It's time for a new thread of the week, our way of recognizing forum members for promoting valuable discussion here.

Every weekday yours truly posts a morning briefing, including the most popular forum threads—that is, the posts with the most replies—for the previous 24 hour period. For reference, here are the briefings for the past seven days:

Your Morning Briefing for Monday, November 2nd, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Wednesday, November 4th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Thursday, November 5th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Friday, November 6th, 2020

Remember that the Monday briefing includes forum posts from the prior Saturday and Sunday, so all weekend posts are similarly eligible.

In each briefing, forum posts are ranked by the number of replies (from highest to lowest). That's subject to change, of course, so I did a quick recount of replies for all forum posts in the briefings above. With 34 replies as of this posting the most popular thread started last week is:

Is mmWave 5G worth the money?

Congrats to Elevatorguy for our forty-ninth thread of the week! As a small token of our appreciation, please enjoy a month of Gold Membership on us!

[acurrie]

It's time for a new thread of the week, our way of recognizing forum members for promoting valuable discussion here.

Every weekday yours truly posts a morning briefing, including the most popular forum threads—that is, the posts with the most replies—for the previous 24 hour period. For reference, here are the briefings for the past seven days:

Your Morning Briefing for Monday, November 9th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Tuesday, November 10th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Wednesday, November 11th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Thursday, November 12th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Friday, November 13th, 2020

Remember that the Monday briefing includes forum posts from the prior Saturday and Sunday, so all weekend posts are similarly eligible.

In each briefing, forum posts are ranked by the number of replies (from highest to lowest). That's subject to change, of course, so I did a quick recount of replies for all forum posts in the briefings above. With 53 replies as of this posting the most popular thread started last week is:

Randomly straight to Voicemail?

Congrats to mike2874 for our fiftieth thread of the week! As a small token of our appreciation, please enjoy a month of Gold Membership on us!

[acurrie]

It's time for a new thread of the week, our way of recognizing forum members for promoting valuable discussion here.

Every weekday yours truly posts a morning briefing, including the most popular forum threads—that is, the posts with the most replies—for the previous 24 hour period. For reference, here are the briefings for the past seven days:

Your Morning Briefing for Monday, November 16th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Thursday, November 19th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Friday, November 20th, 2020

Remember that the Monday briefing includes forum posts from the prior Saturday and Sunday, so all weekend posts are similarly eligible.

In each briefing, forum posts are ranked by the number of replies (from highest to lowest). That's subject to change, of course, so I did a quick recount of replies for all forum posts in the briefings above. With 29 replies as of this posting the most popular thread started last week is:

HSN having two phones for one sale

Congrats to Tony_D for our fifty-first thread of the week! As a small token of our appreciation, please enjoy a month of Gold Membership on us!

[acurrie]

It's time for a new thread of the week, our way of recognizing forum members for promoting valuable discussion here.

Every weekday yours truly posts a morning briefing, including the most popular forum threads—that is, the posts with the most replies—for the previous 24 hour period. For reference, here are the briefings for the past seven days:

Your Morning Briefing for Monday, November 23rd, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Tuesday, November 24th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Thursday, November 26th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Friday, November 27th, 2020

Remember that the Monday briefing includes forum posts from the prior Saturday and Sunday, so all weekend posts are similarly eligible.

In each briefing, forum posts are ranked by the number of replies (from highest to lowest). That's subject to change, of course, so I did a quick recount of replies for all forum posts in the briefings above. With 29 replies as of this posting the most popular thread started last week is:

The US Could Soon Ban the Selling of Carrier-Locked Phones

Congrats once again to fstuff for our fifty-second thread of the week! As a small token of our appreciation, please enjoy a second month of Gold Membership on us!

[acurrie]

It's time for a new thread of the week, our way of recognizing forum members for promoting valuable discussion here.

Have we really been doing this for a year...?

Every weekday yours truly posts a morning briefing, including the most popular forum threads—that is, the posts with the most replies—for the previous 24 hour period. For reference, here are the briefings for the past seven days:

Your Morning Briefing for Monday, November 30th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Tuesday, December 1st, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Friday, December 4th, 2020

Remember that the Monday briefing includes forum posts from the prior Saturday and Sunday, so all weekend posts are similarly eligible.

In each briefing, forum posts are ranked by the number of replies (from highest to lowest). That's subject to change, of course, so I did a quick recount of replies for all forum posts in the briefings above. With 41 replies as of this posting the most popular thread started last week is:

Google voice DND schedule allow certain callers through

Congrats to GPz1100 for our fifty-third thread of the week! As a small token of our appreciation, please enjoy a month of Gold Membership on us!

[acurrie]

It's time for a new thread of the week, our way of recognizing forum members for promoting valuable discussion here.

Every weekday yours truly posts a morning briefing, including the most popular forum threads—that is, the posts with the most replies—for the previous 24 hour period. For reference, here are the briefings for the past seven days:

Your Morning Briefing for Monday, December 7th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Wednesday, December 9th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Thursday, December 10th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Friday, December 11th, 2020

Remember that the Monday briefing includes forum posts from the prior Saturday and Sunday, so all weekend posts are similarly eligible.

In each briefing, forum posts are ranked by the number of replies (from highest to lowest). That's subject to change, of course, so I did a quick recount of replies for all forum posts in the briefings above. With 26 replies as of this posting the most popular thread started last week is:

Teltik just had numbers turned off, mine included.

Congrats to jrdamien for our fifty-fourth thread of the week! As a small token of our appreciation, please enjoy a month of Gold Membership on us!

[acurrie]

It's time for a new thread of the week, our way of recognizing forum members for promoting valuable discussion here.

Every weekday yours truly posts a morning briefing, including the most popular forum threads—that is, the posts with the most replies—for the previous 24 hour period. For reference, here are the briefings for the past seven days:

Your Morning Briefing for Monday, December 14th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Tuesday, December 15th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Wednesday, December 16th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Thursday, December 17th, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Friday, December 18th, 2020

Remember that the Monday briefing includes forum posts from the prior Saturday and Sunday, so all weekend posts are similarly eligible.

In each briefing, forum posts are ranked by the number of replies (from highest to lowest). That's subject to change, of course, so I did a quick recount of replies for all forum posts in the briefings above. With 22 replies as of this posting the most popular thread started last week is:

problems moving existing number and balances to a new BYOP preloaded SIM

Congrats to dave940 for our fifty-fifth thread of the week! As a small token of our appreciation, please enjoy a month of Gold Membership on us!

[acurrie]

It's time for a new thread of the week, our way of recognizing forum members for promoting valuable discussion here.

Every weekday yours truly posts a morning briefing, including the most popular forum threads—that is, the posts with the most replies—for the previous 24 hour period. For reference, here are the briefings for the past seven days:

Your Morning Briefing for Monday, December 21st, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Your Morning Briefing for Thursday, December 24th, 2020

Remember that the Monday briefing includes forum posts from the prior Saturday and Sunday, so all weekend posts are similarly eligible.

In each briefing, forum posts are ranked by the number of replies (from highest to lowest). That's subject to change, of course, so I did a quick recount of replies for all forum posts in the briefings above. With 37 replies each as of this posting it looks like we're ending 2020 with another tie:

Buying devices from prepaid MVNO carriers - advice for and against?
Has ATT Already Closed the Network Gap with Verizon?

Congrats to joseg2016 and @TheRealDanny for our fifty-sixth threads of the week! As a small token of our appreciation, please enjoy a month of Gold Membership on us!