I think you suffered a "brain cramp." I believe you meant to type Consumer Cellular. Consumer Cellular will be opening stores in Lake Sumter Landing and Brownwood. I use them and love the service and price.

Cell phones are a necessary tool in our daily lives. Lets face it, you need one today. Cell phone towers can be disguised as trees. Why the lack of cell towers in TV? Doesn't make sense to me.

Shop T-Mobile

We had been with Verizon for years. Shopped T-Mobile, got two new iPhone 13s on a two year contract. Our monthly bill was HALF of Verizon’s! And they didn’t even want out IPhone 11s. We can sell them on eBay and cut our costs even further!

Cell phone service
 

Hi, we use Straight Talk. (recently bought out by AT&T) $143. 44 for 3 months of 25 Gig service for each phone. Multiphone savings need minimum of 3 cell phones on the plan.
When I went overseas I added international for $10 more a month.
Never had an issue with reception.

we switched from verizon to t mobile and 6 months ago. Should have done it earlier

Verizon could care less we left after 20 years

Put cell antennas in (or on) the water towers. Put cell antennas on the top of buildings.
Since they pay rent, why would the developer not want more income for doing nothing?

locked phones
 

OK. You have me interested in switching from Verizon to Xfinity mobile phones. We bought our two phones from Verizon. How do we know if they are locked? Can they be unlocked or is locked a permanent condition?

Call Verizon and ask them. I have switched providers in the past and simply called and asked. I needed one phone unlocked and they told me how to do it.

I have used Pure Talk $45 a month unlimited everything. never have had an issue.

Take the phones to the Xfinity store at Rolling Acres Rd and Rt 441, near Best Buy in the Starbucks shopping center. You can sign up for Xfinity Mobile there and they should be able to tell you if you need to get Verizon to unlock the phones.

We have been using Tracfone for years and when we explain our experiences to our friends, most switch over. I used to use Verizon until I lost my phone and was convinced to try this.
First, you can pick most brands of phones from low cost to top tier, also 5g. (I have a very nice Samsung Galaxy.) Also, if you investigate, you can find out which carrier your particular phone will use (Verizon, AT&T, etc). I get a yearly unlimited talk and text and 2 gig plan for under $200. Occasionally I may buy another gig for $10, but I normally use wi-fi for internet.
Also, we have found that we can get better deals sometimes buying the phones from other vendors than Tracfone such as Amazon, Ebay and HSN because they may include extra minutes.
We will never go back to a commercial plan.

Great, thank you and Biker1 for the feedback on locked phones.

T-Mobile has a 55+ plan that ends up costing $63 and some change with taxes that gives you 2 lines and unlimited talk, text, and data. It includes a hot spot, but the hot spot is limited to 600K (making it nearly useless). I upgraded to the Magenta 55+ plan that is a little over $6 more - it's $70/month with taxes and fees included.

With this plan you get a full speed hot spot, and no bandwidth limiting or throttling. I've had no issues with it since I've had it. In addition, T-Mobile offers a ton of freebies for users - free Netflix and Apple TV for a year (renewable each year), $10 off of YouTube TV each month for as long as you're a customer along with a host of other goodies.

As far as phones, the best deal out there right now is upcoming release of the Google Pixel 6a on Thursday (6/28). The phone is $449, but you can get a $300 rebate using a number of old phones - bringing the cost of the phone down to $149 -plus you get a free set of wireless pixel buds! If you get the unlocked version, it works on all major carriers.

If you want 5G, then why is somebody looking at 1G limits? If you don’t use data, then don’t use 5G, 5G will fill up the 1G limit in minutes.
There are more things to look at then just local reception. Local reception is a priority, but if you travel thru smaller areas, how is that reception going to be? Say you are using your phone with gps navigation and you lose signal. It happened to us in the middle of Georgia and we didn’t have any turn directions until we got a signal. In the south, we found Verizon has the best coverage where AT&T had many dropouts outside of the larger cities.

Cell phone service/prices
 

Who is this service with? Do you have a ph #?.