is verzion good? att is pissing me off, unlimited data...my rear end
Whether or not Verizon is good depends on your local coverage. Good idea is to look at coverage maps, even better is to ask friends/relatives/neighbors/coworkers who have Verizon what the coverage is like locally. Verizon routinely tops the mobile carriers most satisifed customer list, but if your local coverage is crap, that's useless.
Another thing to note, since I know you like buying your phone outright: there is no advantage to buying your phone outright on Verizon since they use CDMA. You cannot buy an unlocked phone for them and you can't use their phone on any other service (some Verizon phones can be used on MetroPCS, but that's because MetroPCS unlocks it and copies the serial number to their network -- serial number authentication is how CDMA networks work). Finally realize that Verizon is the most expensive mobile phone provider in the US IIRC. Also note that Verizon doesn't offer unlimited data either. Sprint is the only one of the big four that offer unlimited data, and Sprint is also CDMA so there is no such thing as an unlocked phone for Sprint either.
As to your unlimited data complaint against AT&T. It came out that AT&T is throttling users with unlimited data plan as soon as they go above 3 or 5 GB. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/limited-unlimited-data/