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Old 09-21-2019, 06:55 PM
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Comparing the 2,what is your preference for cell service
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We have been very pleased with Consumer Cellular for several years here in TV. We connect to AT&T towers.

Never used Cricket. Probably never will.
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Cricket = ATT. If Consumer Cellular also = ATT as well (as many other MVNO's do also) just choose the one that has a plan that meets your needs. Assuming they are both AT&T you will get the same coverage from both. Looking at the list of MVNO's Consumer Cellular offers BOTH T-Mobile and AT&T as their host systems. Not sure if you can choose.
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I had Cricket for about a year - it was fine. However, I wound up switching to Mint Mobile for half the cost - $15/month for unlimited talk and text, and 3 GBytes of data.

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Cricket = ATT. If Consumer Cellular also = ATT as well (as many other MVNO's do also) just choose the one that has a plan that meets your needs. Assuming they are both AT&T you will get the same coverage from both. Looking at the list of MVNO's Consumer Cellular offers BOTH T-Mobile and AT&T as their host systems. Not sure if you can choose.
With Consumer Cellular you CAN CHOOSE to use either the AT&T or the T-Mobile system. CC provides the appropriate SIM card to do that.
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I had Cricket for about a year - it was fine. However, I wound up switching to Mint Mobile for half the cost - $15/month for unlimited talk and text, and 3 GBytes of data.
What towers does Mint use?
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What towers does Mint use?
Mint operates on T-Mobile's GSM network
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Before you switch to anybody, check with folks in your neighborhood to see what they use. We moved into the Village of Dunedin and had Cricket (AT&T towers) and got basically zero bars of service in our house and barely one outside. We ended up going with Verizon, which wasn't perfect but did give us better reception at home. In your neighborhood, the opposite could easily be true. It really would be helpful to have more cell towers scattered throughout The Villages, but nobody likes them in their back yard.
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Love my Cricket - especially the customer assistance from the staff in Spanish Springs area store! They bent over backwards to get me my first smart phone [an end of life I-phone] and then take more than an hour to unregister my old T-mobile subscription and register the new Cricket subscription AND teach me the basics of using a smart phone! With that kind of customer service it is well worth the monthly fee! And have had no problems with the auto-pay monthly billing feature!
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They use T-Mobile.

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If you enable Wi-FI calling then there won't be an issue inside your home.

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Before you switch to anybody, check with folks in your neighborhood to see what they use. We moved into the Village of Dunedin and had Cricket (AT&T towers) and got basically zero bars of service in our house and barely one outside. We ended up going with Verizon, which wasn't perfect but did give us better reception at home. In your neighborhood, the opposite could easily be true. It really would be helpful to have more cell towers scattered throughout The Villages, but nobody likes them in their back yard.
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We've been using Consumer Cellular for roughly 5 years now. When we switched from AT&T to Consumer Cellular, we saved over $45 a month and we got much more.
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They use T-Mobile.
Wish I had said that!
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If you enable Wi-FI calling then there won't be an issue inside your home.
There would be an issue inside your home if you don't have WIFI in your home...

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Obviously but you don't really know whether he has Wi-Fi or not.

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There would be an issue inside your home if you don't have WIFI in your home...

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