What cellphone carrier do you use ?

[MAX-24-Dean]

Inreach, Verizon and Telcel. In that order. Inreach to send texts and communicate with the outside world. Verizon when I am in civilization. And Telcel when out of the country.

 

[Oaktree]

Tried them all in rural Nevada and Verizon is the only one with towers outside of the cities. Kind of funny...ATT had to do some landline maintenance in my area and the crew had to get Verizon phones because their ATT phones had no signal. But there are still vast areas of Nevada with no cell service. The towers are mainly along major highways and Nevada has very few of those. All the clear areas in the below map have no coverage.

I was a bit surprised to see how much of Nevada had coverage, at least according to your map. I would have expected much less. Granted, most of these coverage maps are "optimistic" to say the least.

 

[JJT]

AT&T through Cricket.

I signed up 8 years ago at $25/mo, and it's still $25/mo, (and the android cellphone was no additional charge). No issues and still happy with the service.

 

[deserteagle71]

I was a bit surprised to see how much of Nevada had coverage, at least according to your map. I would have expected much less. Granted, most of these coverage maps are "optimistic" to say the least.

When your cell towers are sitting at 10,000 feet elevation the signal travels pretty far...

Traveling along US Highway 50 across Nevada this tower is where you'd get your cell signal from. The highway is in this picture but so far away you can't make it out unless you know where to look. The far mountains are ~ 100 miles distant. Picture was taken mid-summer but as you can see, there's still some snow left on the mountains.

 

[2515R Dude]

I have Tello. Excellent coverage and customer service, unlimited text and calls for $10 a month with no contracts
Cannot bit it
Before i had Unreal mobile. Also not bad, a little more expensive $20 a month and slightly less coverage.

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[cdaigle430]

I have been using Verizon for the past 17 years because it’s pretty much the only carrier that works reliably where my house is.
They keep raising prices, with only one line and a Verizon Jetpack I was paying $101 a month for 30 gigabytes of what they call high speed data, after 30 gigabytes they slow down the the data but it does still work.
There was no other internet available where I live until about a month ago when Spectrum became available here, but I really ain’t very interested in paying anything to Spectrum because I travel a lot .
A few months ago one of my brothers switched to USmobile which uses Verizon, T-Mobile , AT&T he has been very happy with the switch and talked me into trying it, he is supposed to get $15 for getting me to switch.
Well switching process was way too complicated for me so I got my brother to help. Even with his help it seemed very complicated but I’m now on USmobile Verizon paying less than half of what I was paying before and supposedly getting 100 gigabytes per month instead of only 30, so far it has been working great.

I might have tried Consumer Cellular which only uses AT&T but AT&T often doesn’t work inside my house and Consumer Cellular doesn’t have service in Canada or Mexico or other countries, I’m planning to ride to Canada again next summer. T-Mobile coverage is pretty lousy where I live.

Just in case someone doesn’t realize USmobile and UScellular are two completely different companies.

I have ATT and it works in my house using wifi calling.

 

[LittleBill21]

I'm ATT. Whatever company you use it's usually a better deal to buy the phone yourself and get a prepaid plan. I buy older model phones, often used or refurbished.

My ATT prepaid costs $35/month and has far more data than I'll ever need.

ATT prepaid for the year is 25 a month, and 16gb hotspot with rollover

 

[LittleBill21]

I have ATT and it works in my house using wifi calling.

yea cus it goes through the internet, any carrier will work since its not reliant on cell towers.

 

[Locoweed]

Like the OP, I use US Mobile. Been with them for 3 years & have been happy with them.

 

[MotorSeven]

We swore we would not ever go back to AT&T 18 years ago when we switched to Verizon. Verizon was great for the majority of those years, but the last few the service has gone downhill and price uphill. 2 phones(paid for) on their unlimited plan was $230 a month. Within in line of sight from their local tower....zero to one bars. In a moderate sized town that used to have 5 bars....one. I noticed when we traveled, signal strength was generally poor.

Tried Consumer first, their CS was amazing, but no one could figure out why my phone would not work on WIFI(rural here, WIFI is all we got). Switched to AT&T after reading and research. $40 a month each phone for prepaid and 4-5 bars almost everywhere we go.

Here is my WAG- Verizon sold too much of their bandwidth to these other companies at their customers expense. Their CS is outsourced and some times the accent was so thick I could not understand what they were saying. Right now, AT&T is on top. If that changes I will jump ship again, since I will no longer be a loyal customer if you fail to deliver and fail to listen when help is needed.

BTW, my fav of all time was Nextell.....Sprint bought them in 2005 and they went the way of the DoDo.