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03-02-2022, 10:34 AM #1
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What Cellular Provider?
I'm thinking changing my cellular provider (Verizon) and I was wondering what provider that you folks use. Vz's customer service is just terrible, they keep making errors on my account and they just raised my bill $83 per month! I was looking at some of the resellers like Consumer Cellular, but I uncertain how their coverage is. So what carrier or provider do you use and how do you find their coverage and service?
Your help is appreciated!
Bob
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03-02-2022, 10:39 AM #2
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Visible wireless. They are owned by Verizon and operate on Verizon towers. $25.00 a month for unlimited talk, text and data....and the big one for me...unlimited mobile hotspot data...which means that you can stream as much Netflix etc as you want to your internet capable tv.
Been on the road now two months with it. Flawless.
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03-02-2022, 12:34 PM #3
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AT&T -- it sucks.
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03-02-2022, 12:42 PM #4
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03-02-2022, 01:15 PM #5
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03-02-2022, 02:05 PM #6
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I have not had any streaming issues on Visible when Verizon has adequate bandwidth. In busy areas it can slow down a lot, when it does my Verizon work phone has the same issues.
I have not tried but I doubt if you will be able to stream to multiple TVs or 4K programs with Visible. We almost never do either of those at home and can live with that on the road.2021 Imagine 2800BH
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03-02-2022, 03:36 PM #7
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That is old info. They no longer throttle speeds, except for wifi hotspot...and 5g...which is capped at 500 mbps.
Hot spot is unlimited at 5 mbps. Not 4g streaming, but quite acceptable compared to no streaming at all or a crazy bill. Pretty much standard dvd quality. You can be "deprioritized" in areas of heavy traffic...but I have not noticed any issues.
I routinely get 4g at 50+ mbps, and 5 g whenever I am in 5g territory. For me it's perfect...zero complaints.
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03-03-2022, 06:17 AM #8
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I'm in Maine and recently switched to Spectrum Mobile. I'm not sure if it is available everywhere, but it uses Verizon towers and I've had good signal so far in New England.
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03-03-2022, 06:30 AM #9
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03-03-2022, 06:39 AM #10
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I don't think that this is old info, I its from a review called "Visible Review: 5 Things To Know Before You Sign Up" dated February 7, 2022 (https://clark.com/cell-phones/visible-review/). To verify this info I started a chat session this morning with Visible and this is what they said when I asked if "Does Visible chokes or throttle data traffic"
does Visible choke of throttle data traffic?
Nice to see you Robert! I'm Connai, Visible's Digital Assistant.
We’re built for life on the go
You'll typically experience 4G network speeds of 5-12 Mbps and upload speeds of 2-5 Mbps. Also, on specific devices and in certain locations, you'll experience 5G network speeds capped at 200 Mbps.
Video typically streams at a resolution of 480p - nice and crisp on your phone.
Heads up: when the network gets congested, your data could be slower than other traffic.
4G download speeds can be as high as 100Mbps, but I typically see form 25 Mbps to 50 Mbps in my area. So Visible is definitely choking the 4G data traffic at least that is what they are telling me. My wife and I both have fairly new phones and unfortunately they aren't 5G capable. We are satisfied with the 25 to 50 Mbps that we've been seeing, but 5 to 12 Mbps is just too slow.
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