Consumer Cellular - No Coverage?

chindog wrote:
As previously noted, CC uses AT&T and T-Mobile networks. Each phone has a sim card that only uses one or the other. My wife recently got a new i-phone, and she consistently could not get coverage when my Samsung did. It turned out that she had a sim card that used the T-Mobile network, where mine uses AT&T. After a visit to a Target store, she had an AT&T sim card installed. After that, she is now getting service. And, Consumer Cellular credited our account for the $10 we spent on the new sim card.

Thanks for this tip. I called Consumer Cellular and they told me that both our phones have T-Mobile sim cards. When we get ready to leave Florida, I think we may switch at least one sim card to AT&T.

Vernal, Utah. A year ago in July, right in town, zero signal.

As previously noted, CC uses AT&T and T-Mobile networks. Each phone has a sim card that only uses one or the other. My wife recently got a new i-phone, and she consistently could not get coverage when my Samsung did. It turned out that she had a sim card that used the T-Mobile network, where mine uses AT&T. After a visit to a Target store, she had an AT&T sim card installed. After that, she is now getting service. And, Consumer Cellular credited our account for the $10 we spent on the new sim card.

Here is a link to Consumer Cellular's voice & data coverage maps.

https://www.consumercellular.com/Coverage?showLegacyMap

Our CC works mostly everywhere, only in a few remote areas it hasn't. It has an AT&T SIM card. If we wanted to use our phone in Europe we could get a T-Mobile SIM for $10 from CC or Target.

My wife has been with Consumer Cellular for 10 years and I cannot remember a time when she could not make a phone call. And we have been in some sketchy service areas. Data is a different matter. In those areas she couldn't access the internet. I switched this year from Verizon to C.C. and cut our bill by $50.

No coverage in my bedroom at home. Wifes Verizon also has no signal there. It's a small house too.

Consumer's Cellular uses one or more of the Big 3 (AT&T, T-Mobile Verizon) and it appears some smaller companies as well. So they have lots of coverage.

But nobody is 100%