[jojo]

I travel a great deal and T-Mobile has been fine for me. Occasionally I have a problem in my house so I step out on the lanai for better coverage. I am contract free now and have unlimited data, text, and calling for under $50. Love it. From what I've read it appears that Verizon may be more solid throughout The Villages but I plan to stay with T-Mobile as it works for me and saves money.

[need2no]

for those of you who have Verizon cell phones go online an google pageplus cellular. have been using them for over 3 years. they supply coverage by piggyback on Verizon network. no contracts and a bunch of plans to choose from. my smart phone cost me 12.00 a month. my wife has the 80.00 plan that is good for a year. they will port your # for free.

sidebar- if you have a smart phone and are in any wifi area you can use vontage service for free. just download the vontage app on your phone and you can use their service for 1,000 minutes free. does not use any minutes from your carrier. between vontage and page plus I never came close to going over my plan. I use the 1000 minutes for outgoing calls. if you call someone who also has the free vontage app then no minutes are used by either of you

[RErmer]

We have had Sprint for 1 year and 11 months (my husband could probably tell you the number of days!) the moment our contract is up we will be changing to anyone other than Sprint. Reasons: no reception in Spanish Springs area (Flippers, Fiesta Biwl, etc.), incredibly slow search speeds, bad reception.

We're thinking of Cricket. Any comments on their service? Since they are owned by AT&T we assume (perhaps incorrectly) that the coverage and speeds will be acceptable.

[Bonny]

We live in BonnyBrook. We have had Sprint since about 2005. Never have any problems. No dropped calls.

[Paulz]

We currently have Cricket. Good not great service in TV and a little slow on data. Owned by AT&T but not the whole network.

[Biker Dog]

We have prepay Tracfones and have never had a dropped call anywhere in the Villages or in Pennsylvania.