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(Before they left the cell phone market,) Ting was the best phone company ever.

The anti-competitive behavior of the big cellular providers drove their costs for buying bandwidth through the roof and killed their MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) business.

Ting had a motto on their web site "Ting Hearts Hackers." They walked people through jail-breaking their phones.

They had live humans in my home state who did not have accents who answered the phone 24/7 to help, and knew much more then this former telecom programmer about the phones and the service.

They helped me when an eBay seller screwed me and sent me a phone locked to another network by buying it out from being locked and comped me the buy out because they said I was a loyal customer.

I miss Ting.