Nearly everyone has a cell phone and pays for cell phone service every month. Who do you use for cell phone service? Is there a provider you think everyone needs to know about? Share your opinions on cell phone plans here.
i have consumer cellular. i contacted them for a problem, and they have good phone service to customer, and upgraded my plan to reflect the present offerings. My daughter loves her mint, and its price beats CC, but not sure of getting a person on phone for help, and eventually you will need it.
I have had Verizon for years, but I would like to move to a less expensive carrier. However, I absolutely love the text voice mail they offer, which costs extra each month. I also love their monitoring of suspicious texts and the fact that you can block numbers yourself. Yes, this also comes with a small fee. I did have insurance through Verizon on my expensive iPad, and when the iPad suddenly went dead after three years, Verizon provided me with a new device. I’m not sure that any of the less expensive carriers can provide the two services I love, so for now, I’m still with Verizon.
I use textnow. It is a great plan and uses wifi first for everything. If wifi is not available it uses towers. A 2 GB plan is 10.99 including taxes. I use it mostly at home and rarely use more than 500 MB per month.
I have used Tracfones from HSN or QVC for at least 10 years. Every year, I get a new phone (with 1200 or 1500 minutes, messages and data for the year) and NO MONTHLY BILL. I have paid only about $60/year, though last year most prices have jumped up. I have had to pay $10 twice for 1GB of extra DATA. Last year, Capital One Shopping app bought the phone for me, so this year is completely free. I think this is a perfect plan for folks who don’t live on their phones.
I have had no problems in the last few years, but if you need Customer Service, I suggest you go to Tracfone site and use the Chat. Their CSRs frequently are hard to understand over the phone.
If you buy a new phone and have minutes, messages and/or data remaining from the previous year, they will add it to the new phone plan, so I have thousands of minutes and messages left. I can’t see why anybody who doesn’t use tons of data, minutes or messages would use any other service.
I have Consumer Cellular and love the service. I see that they offer two lines of Unlimited Talk, Text, and Data for $55. The offer is for new customers.
Consumer Cellular is a shared data plan where multiple lines share a “bucket” of data. I don’t know what other services do that. I don’t use much data, so I like the idea of a shared data plan. I think many people overpay for data that they don’t use. Consumer Cellular allows you to start small and work up, if necessary. Of course, with the $55 plan that would not be a consideration.
Consumer Cellular uses the AT&T network. I do not buy phones from the phone company, so I do not have the monthly charge for a phone on my bill. If you want to keep your same phones, Consumer Cellular will send you new SIM cards for free.
Consumer Cellular has started opening stores in some areas. If you have a store near you, you might prefer the service of a store. Otherwise, everything is handled ove the phone. Their customer service has always been great for me.
We have been with T-Mobile on the 55 and over plan paying $50.00 per month for 2 lines of unlimited calls, data, etc. for years with auto pay billed to a credit card for the $5.00 per line discount. Recently the monthly price was increased by $5.00 per line ($60.00 per month) and they no longer offer the auto-pay discount if it’s linked to a credit card. To continue receiving the $5.00 per line discount, you now have to have auto-pay taken from your checking or savings account.
I was on T-Mobile for like 15 years using the 55 and over plan (50/mo). When they eliminated the discount for cc auto-bill AND lost our personal data (again), I shopped around and left T-Mobile. I first switched to Mint, and worked very well. I bought like a 6 month plan. Then I started traveling to an area in Central Illinois that my phone wouldn’t work, and I added an electronic sim w/US Cellular using their “Verizon” service for about $10/mo. Worked great having two numbers in my phone. When I wasn’t in the Illinois area, I put US Cellular on ‘pause.’ Recently I switched over to Visible, cancelled the other two plans, and paying $25/mo each for two lines and it works great, very happy. Occasionally I noticed my phone does use LTE instead of 5g, and it works in Illinois where we recently were for a few weeks.
p.s. I am a “tech tutor” volunteer at our local Library here in Colorado so having a background in cell, networks, PC/mac, android and Apple goes a long way in making these things work together!
We have been with T-Mobile for more years than I can remember and are on the 55 and over plan as well. I didn’t like that I had to change my auto bill pay from a CC to a bank account or lose the auto bill pay discount. I wasn’t aware that they are now a German-owned company until I read Clark’s most recent email. Our monthly plan was raised $5.00 per line as well. Not thrilled about either of those two hits. I might look around for some other plan. Disappointed in T-Mobile!