[Dkay718]

I am in The Villages approximately 5 months of the year and do quite a bit of U.S. travel the rest of the year. I had to change my long time provider to Verizon to accommodate these different areas. Verizon may be a little more expensive but gives the best coverage across the country and especially in The Villages.

[OhioBuckeye]

We were Verizon subscriber for 20 or more yrs. But we live south of 466A, in the Village of Charlotte & Verizon was terrible. My wife complained about it 4 different times & our local Verizon said they were going to put up more towers & that was 2 yrs. ago, they haven't yet. So my wife called the corp. office & she got dropped 3 times while talking to them, gotta laugh, they asked my wife why she kept getting disconnected, my wife said, "It's your service". they gave back all of our money & let us out of the contract. We're now with Consumer Cellular, we never had a dropped call. It's cheaper, no contract! Verizon won't do a thing for you. They don't have to, if you get mad & drop them you're just one out of millions of subscribers.

[OhioBuckeye]

Originally Posted by burky

Consumer Cellular is the best I have ever found. They require no contract, and their rates are WAY MORE competitive than anyone else. A typical monthly bill for two users runs around $45 and you can change your plan, via the web at any time, so you can wait until the last day of the billing period and select the cheapest rate plan for your voice/data actually usage that month! :-)

Consumer Cellular (CC) uses the AT&T network so you have the excellent coverage of AT&T worldwide (we have virtually never lacked a good connection and have traveled the world, even in the wilds of Africa where there was solid cell service!).

Finally CC has the best customer service I have ever encountered. All agents are based in the US, and are uniformly polite and very helpful.

If you have an AARP Membership there is a 5% discount off your monthly fees.

In my humble opinion, CC is one great company! [:-)}

I agree totally. People that have Verizon have brain freeze. They've never checked around. If they would just try Consumer Cellular, they would see real quick how they've been ripped off by Verizon! I pay $60. a month for 2 people. If Verizon's had a $60. month subscription, by the time they get all of their extra charge on it, it would be about $100. a mo.

[stujake]

My wife and I have Verizon on our iPhone 6's and we have no problems anywhere in The Villages.

[Sunnygram]

In March we moved from St. James to Hillsborough, very near Brownwood.
Service with Verizon was fine for 2 months, THEN, Verizon decided to mess with the tower near the St. James gate. I felt like we had stepped back in time
with all the dropped calls we began to get.

To make a long story short - Verizon acknowledged the 3 − 4 times a day of
dropped calls and said to us, after their investigation - that was the best we would get and told us to find another carrier and they would not charge us late or cancellation fees.

NO, they didn't - BUT they drove us crazy charging and re-charging us for the phones we had returned. THANK YOU TRACKING NUMBERS - which save our
bank account nearly $700. I was about to charge them for the hours and hours and aggravation for trying to get this straight and our account corrected!!!

What a nightmare!

[dadspet]

Had T-Mobile it was awfull so switched to tracfone/Verizon that is good but now on cricket/att that's good

[blueeagle65]

In the twelve years we've been in TV we have had ZERO problems with Verizon service. Never failed to connect and never dropped. This also applies to everywhere we've traveled up and down the east coast. We've always had more than a basic phone which may be part of our success.

[Dave@TV]

We have been in The Villages for over 10 years and have found Verizon to have the best overall coverage. Friends and family that have visited have found spotty coverage with other major providers.

[llsartist]

We have Verizon, have had it in Virginia, for years… When we moved down here..the service remained the same. Great service.

[Challenger]

Originally Posted by blueeagle65

In the twelve years we've been in TV we have had ZERO problems with Verizon service. Never failed to connect and never dropped. This also applies to everywhere we've traveled up and down the east coast. We've always had more than a basic phone which may be part of our success.

Wish I could say that. Verizon stinks in Tamarind Grove