Verizon V Consumer Cellular or others
Wife found an advertisement for Consumer Cellular in her AARP magazine for two lines, unlimited talk and text with 5G data. Ad says $55.00 per month which is less by a bit than our Verizon plan. Wou...
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ncscz wrote:
This may not be true in all locations - If you have a full price AT&T (or Verizon) plan and you are in a location that has no AT&T towers, there may be a sharing agreement (used to be called roaming) so that your AT&T phone will still work. But your Tracfone/StraightTalk/CC/etc phone that uses AT&T towers will not work.
This was true in 2013 when I was working & had a company phone - it might have changed since then.
Maybe someone who knows more can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it has nothing to do with the "plan" you have and has more to do with the "Phone" you have.
A CDMA 3G or less phone can not communicate over the AT&T GSM network regardless of the "plan" level you have with that CDMA carrier. Even with a 4G CDMA phone and full price no limit data plan, you're still limited in the ability to jump networks if that phone lacks the number of access frequencies used by that GSM 4G carrier. If I have a brand new 2018 I-Phone from Consumer Cellular with their cheapest plan, I would have more access to 4G anywhere and across carriers compared to someone with a full price full feature plan from Verizon but who is using some older 4G phone made 4 years ago.
