If you switch you will get an identical deal, or worse.

It isn't you or your age.

Great plan for retirees. Works on internet while at home and cell towers when our of the house. We pay about $65 for two lines, including phone cost. Internet usage doesn't use up your limits.

Both of us are retired, at home most of the time so land line is our main communications. Cell phone is only when we are out.

Tracfone, pay as you go have been our choice for many years - Thank you, DU, for pointing me the way. Flip phones. I have problem with touch screens. Also, like to use both arms. Sometimes at appear that the whole world is operating with one arm with the other holding a "smart phone.."

About $200 a year for both. I shudder when I hear an ad for "only" $100 a month. But then we do not need all the "apps" to show kids and grand kids and travels..

When I stop needing a phone for work, I'll go back to one.

Unlimited everything and Netflix to boot. Helped my aunt and uncle switch over to this and they are quite happy with it.

2 lines are actually 100 a month with a 10 bonus for using auto pay bringing it to 90 a month.

but there are other companies that have better ethics and probably better plans. The do have an unlimited data family type plan that is ~ 45 per line.

They are part of the T-Mobile network, so same coverage.
We pay $80 or $90 for 3 lines. You’re looking at $60 for two lines. Unlimited talk/text. 4G I get a few gigs per line before it drops to 3g speed. I’ve personally never hit my limit, but I’m on wifi most places.

5G is only useful if you have a phone with 5G and need the faster internet speed when you’re not somewhere with wifi.

As with several other providers, Consumer does not maintain its own transmission infrastructure, but leases from other providers. In areas with a lot of competition this works very well. In areas where the major providers feel confident in jacking consumers hard, they're not quite so accommodating in leasing infrastruction.

But Consumer Cellular customer service reps are human beings here in North America and they will generally be candid about where their service does and doesn't work best.

helpfully,
Bright

I'm not sure what 2 lines is.

We each pay around $35 a month for unlimited calling and texts.
I don't know much about 'data'. Guess I don't need or use it.

I have a $100 Motorola phone and he has an expensive iPhone.

I live in New Mexico and he lives in Ohio.
Consumer Cellular in both areas uses the AT&T network.

I've used them for over 5 years and am very happy with them.
I've used their customer service a couple times and they were excellent.

https://www.consumercellular.com/

I just went back and looked at Consumer Cellular and it is less than the Verizon plan I just signed up for. With AARP it's only $38/month for two lines. Can that even be real? See--this is the thing with cell phones. Too much. Seeing if I can back out of Verizon. Thanks!

and I'd say Sprint if the merger doesn't go through. I would never pay another nickel to either Verizon or T-Mobile, both of which have screwed me.

We have not had good luck with Sprint, except when we went through Working Assets/Credo, which was expensive.

I miss Ma Bell!

didn't do cell phones. In fact, she didn't handle competition very well at all.

It is a dilemma, I expect there is a high chance that the merger will go through. I get really good reception with Sprint up and down the east coast, where I travel frequently these days. I didn't have any problems when I took a round-the-country road trip just over a year ago, either, but I didn't try to make a lot of calls from Oklahoma or New Mexico.

I suppose that I might have to find some independent company that uses the Sprint network, and go with them. Right now, my main issue is being able to use my phone as a hotspot for Internet connectivity for my laptop. In SC, that's not a problem, because we have at cheap cable and Internet package through our homeowner's association. And 5 gigs of hotspot was not enough, so I bought a tablet and a plan for it. Since Sprint kicked up the smartphone's hotspot amount up to 50 gigs a month, I dropped the tablet plan.