Cell Phone Plan for 55+

kerrlakeRoo wrote:
Does T-mobile match Verizons coverage out west? Here they are patchy. .

If they did I wouldn't be paying Verizon what I do.

I live in CA and annually travel the west coast from southern CA all the way to the San Juan Islands off the coast of Seattle and have excellent coverage with T Mobile. On the San Juan Islands, I was only the one at the house with consistent connectivity with T Mobile.

I have Boost Mobile (Sprint), unlimited talk, unlimited text, 4 gigs of data for 30 bucks a month and got a new Android phone at a very heavy discount. It's a 'pay as you go' phone but I set it up with prepay via CC. No statements, no surprise charges, just 30 a month.

Much cheaper than my old Verizon, like half the price. kept my number too.

very happy with them.

I carry a SAT phone for emergency's. It's good anywhere, anytime (works directly off satellites). like your GPS does, anywhere in the world but airtime is super expensive and the phone is as well. Airtime can range from a couple bucks a minute to well over 10 bucks a minute depending on where you are.

You buy the phone outright and pay via airtime. Phones are upwards of a grand for a basic unit to a couple grand for a complex one.

I've been at 10,000 feet in Colorado in the mountains and used it. No cell phone will work in such a remote area. I could be in Alaska, Canada, Israel or even Russia and it would work fine.

I looked at the offer and I didn't like the Hotspot @3G idea.

KerrlakeRoo, I'm not going to say T-Mobile is as good as Verizon but they are good enough for me. Even had a signal - phone and internet - at USFS Glass Creek on U.S. 395 north of Mammoth Lakes, CA. But in Lee Vining (back way into Yosemite)....nothing but nothing!

Cheap cell plan prices don't mean much if you don't have the ability to use them. We had T-Mobile and dropped them after we had trouble getting connected in several areas. Including at our house. For us, Verizon has no such problems.

fj12ryder, I did have trouble at our house. They gave us a free booster several years that resolved the issue.

Boost is Sprint so anywhere Sprint works, so does Boost. Boost has a second line option for 15 bucks with an existing line.

I'll stick with Total Wireless which is Verizon's cheaper service.

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