Consumer Cellular

Love! Love ! Love! This company is great. I am 63 yo who didn't need a ton of bells and whistles. Just wanted home phone and texting mainly. For 20.00 a month I get just that. Period. No add on fees, surcharges etc. You know exactly what you are getting up front when you select your service and that is how it is billed each month. There is no yearly contract. You can cancel at any time. The service is easy to access via the web and make a phone selection, service selection. The reps are all English speaking and they provide excellent customer service. I have unlimited talk and text and some data which I never use as I am on my wifi at home. I have never had any problems with the service dropping . I am on monthly automatic billing which is very easy to set up. I don't know why I waited so long to switch.

I have had a great experience with Consumer Cellular and have been with them since 2003. My cell phones have all been purchased through them, one lasting 8 years, most I have had for an average of 4-5 years. Customer service has been professional, helpful and rarely a wait. I added my family for a total of 4 lines with unlimited calls, text and data. I own a small business and conduct business with my cell phone regularly. My one wish would be more data, as we have other family members who use it up faster than I would like but the app shows a quick and easy chart of who has used what and they send texts to alert you of your usage. Our total bill for four busy people is $133/month and I am thinking of adding the roadside assistance. I highly recommend!

I used to have Verizon while in Massachusetts- $119.00 a month...good service. I moved to North Carolina in 2014....and hooked up with T-Mobile. No dropped calls, but trying to pay my $49.95 a month bill was horrific...every month! - I used no more than 2 gigabytes of date every month for 6 years. I logged online to pay and was rerouted because "We don't recognize your password". They made me change my password almost every month and it would take me a half hour to pay the bill! I finally logged onto Conusmer Cellular to see what was available. I was surprised to see that I could get $100.00 off ($5.00 a month off my bill for 20 months) to sign up. I get 3 gigabytes a month - which is one gig more than I ever used at T-Mobile. So, for that, I'm paying $20.00 a month or $359.40 LESS per year. For $7.00 more, they sent me a brand new Galaxy A12 Android cell phone...so for $27.00 a month (instead of $49.95), I'm enjoying all that I ever had with either Verizon or T-Mobile...and I have a beautiful, larger cell phone with 4 cameras in it! I was so happy with it that I'm featuring it on my YouTube channel with over 2,500 subscribers.....at/jtylermusic.

I have been very happy with Consumer Cellular, where I have enjoyed reliable service, low cost, and well-spoken, patient customer support reps. The support contact sometimes requires waiting for a callback at an appointed time. CC offers to provide service to a compatible phone of your own using a free SIM card. I saved $40 a month by paying $10 to CC for an additional line on my account and transferring my Verizon home number to the CC line. (The transfer of the phone number from most carriers is done in a few minutes, but took a week of waiting for Verizon to do their part.) CC resells service from other carriers. The overall quality of service you receive depends on performance of your phone, strength of the radio signal from a cell tower, network internal bandwidth and reliability, and complex computer systems (they manage technical operation, customer data, and business functions). Any error in this complex web is perceived as a failure of CC. (I wrote these comments in Nov 2021. I use voice more than data).

I have never had one ounce of problems with Consumer cellular other than I needed to change my sim card from the one that came with the phone to an At&T card because of where I live. Customer service was awesome and sent me one right away. btw to the person who said the back doesn't come off, yes it does. First time is a little tight then it is ok. If you're having problems with Customer Service are you being nasty because I have never encountered a nasty person. To the person who said you couldn't change your plan, yes you can because there's no contract. When I went on vacation I called them and added minutes and then when I came back a week later I changed it back. Now I have unlimited minutes so it doesn't matter. I am reading all the negative reviews and I am perplexed as to how you are reacting to the Customer Service Rep. I know that every product has a lemon and I would imagine CC would take care of the problem. If you happen to get a nasty person turn them in but make sure you aren't the cause of it. btw - Verizon is terrible. I had them and I would never go back to them. They rape you over the coals every time you have to get a new phone and their phones are expensive.

I love Consumer Cellular. For me, the best thing about this company is their customer service. When I call, I actually get at human being, without a long wait! And I can understand him or her. In a world that is quickly becoming disconnected from human contact, Consumer Cellular is one of the remaining places where you can go, hand your old phone to them, and they do all the transferring of your photos and contacts for you. They even change the SIM card. Yes, I could do that myself, but it'd be a bit of a struggle. I'm not a teen who hyper-ventilates by their phone, nor do I sleep with my phone, nor am I married to my phone. So at $30/month with 3GB of data, that's just fine for me. I hate doing every little thing via an app. I want to deal with a human being, not a website, not an app, not a robot on my phone. So Consumer Cellular is great for me.

Consumer Cellular International Roaming My wife and I are Consumer Cellular (CC) customers for the last several years. We have used our own phones for the whole time. It worked perfectly. I do international travel at least one time a year. CC advised me that I should not use my CC phone for international calls. I used local SIM for overseas communication while travelling. In October 2019, before my travel, I logged into my CC account to check my status. I noticed that I could turn on international roaming. I thought that would be convenient. I call the customer service to have international roaming turned on. They told me I must T-Mobile SIM in my phone to get international roaming. My wife’s phone had an AT&T SIM. I went to the local Target and had a T-Mobile SIM for her phone. On the next day, I called 888-345-5509 and the representative told me that international roaming was activated for two phones in the account. In England, I did not try to use my phone for roaming. I bought a local SIM. My wife tried to make calls to US and locally in England. None of the calls went through. Each time we call a customer service message came in with a phone number. We called the number. That number took us to T-Mobile support and they send us to CC support. We did that for few times. Each time the representatives checked and told us that there was no problem and we should make the call correctly with country code if required. At the end of the day, not a single call went through. Back home, I was surprised to see $27.56 roaming charge in my invoice. I called CC customer service on 11/22. I wanted to know why none of our calls went though and I requested removal of the roaming charges. The rep told me that international roaming was not guaranteed to work and the other reason was that I was using a non-CC phone. I have read the documents posted on CC web page. I could not confirm the above two reasons for failing every single call. I also believe that making me pay for the failed calls will be unfair. I would like to know about the international roaming experience of other customer.

I am surprised at how many bad reviews you've got on this site. I have not had any issues with CC. I ordered my phones and plan on line. Phone & SIM card for other phone arrived within 2-3 days. I called CC and within minutes both phones were activated and ready to go. The rep made sure to let me know that they would activate 1 phone at a time to make sure we were not without a phone. He clearly stated that some phones take 24 hours to transfer. CC even cancelled AT&T for us. I went into my AT&T account to make sure it was cancelled, and it was, indeed, cancelled. I've bought 2 smartphones from them, and both work fine. I researched the phones were I purchased them. The service is just as good as AT&T - good coverage, good reception. I monitor my data usage myself, and whenever possible, I use WiFi at home and work. As for the bad reviews, come on, people, you have to take some responsibility and research your product and keep track of your usage. Customer service was FANTASIC! All 3-4 times I called them, I could clearly understand them, and they were pleasant, helpful and friendly. A lot of these complaints seem to be partly the complainer's fault. Do your research, take responsibility for your data usage, choose the right plan and don't expect something that it's not. You get what you pay for.

I am retired now and I was in the wireless business for over 15yrs, TMO-AT&T and Verizon. First of all this is a great company and I will tell you why. I have searched everywhere and the price is the best for what you get. CC uses AT&T network or TMO with no slowing of the network speeds. Choose AT&T if your phones are unlocked, it has better coverage. AARP discount 5%. Their customer service guide is very simple to use and understand. I cannot find anything wrong with this company compared to all the others, they are the best. I could go on and on but i may be limited to comments on google. The negative is only on thing and I would not call it a negative and that is this. This company is not ment for data hogs, people who use much over 20GB of data a month. Yes you are a data hog and such you will pay for it. my bill is only $66.50 plus tax so about $80.00 for 3 lines with unlimited calling unlimited messages and 5GB of data which is plenty. Oh yeah if I go over that month it just bumps you to the next data plan up automatically with no stupid fees then back to your original plan. Do your shopping...... This is the best for none data hogs. Oh yeah their customer service is awesome. no one is perfect and they use call centers inside the usa only all easy to understand customer service team. Most people comments are when they are upset not when they are pleased. have a great day!

I changed from Verizon about two months ago and am absolutely DELIGHTED. I would give ten stars if I could. Not only am I saving $35 a month -- $420 a year! -- but I also have used more data than I ever did before and came nowhere near my 2 gig limit. And if I should accidentally exceed that, they just automatically bump me up to the next level ( which is only $5 per month more.) And I LOVE the fact that I can identify a call as spam and have it blocked for FREE. Even better than that, I asked CC to screen incoming calls for possible spam. They block it, but if I then see that it was not spam, I have the option of calling back. It also has a Do Not Disturb option for use at night. It holds calls until morning unless I list a number that will be allowed. In addition, if someone calls three times in about 45 minutes, the call is allowed to come through because it may be an emergency. And when I needed some help, I found it to be easy and quick. On top of that, all their service people are in the US and not Bangladesh or South Slobbovia. They even speak understandable English. My ONLY regret is that I did not do this years ago.

5 stars are not enough! I am amazed that any of the other phone companies can stay in business with the LOUSY customer service they offer by comparison with the MAGNIFICANT experience I had this afternoon with 3 different customers service folks at Consumer Cellular. There were three because I needed to provide additional information and had to call AARP to get my member number and Call T-Mobile to get my account Number and Call my bank because my debit was denied (wrong expiration date) They were each polite, professional, knowledgable, courteous, friendly, and totally customer service oriented. What a VERY pleasant experience. I am switching both of my cell phones to Consumer Cellular IMMEDIATELY!

I had been paying $50 a month for my mother to have service on Verizon. Because my family had unlimited, I had to pay for her to have unlimited. I decided to give Consumer Cellular a shot even though there were mixed reviews. I ordered my mom an Alcatel Go Flip phone and signed up for the unlimited talk plan from their website, which clearly states that they will but doing a credit check. When I signed up with Verizon, T-mobile they did a credit check as well, its standard. I see people have been leaving bad reviews because they were unaware of the credit check. An hour later I received an email saying it was shipped already ( free shipping ). 3 days later I received the phone with instructions to either activate the phone on-line or over the phone, I chose over the phone. The representative was very friendly and helpful. The whole process to port my mother's phone number over took 7 minutes. I asked if I had to call Verizon to cancel her service. He said no, but to be on the safe side it can't hurt. I called Verizon to confirm her line was canceled and it was. The phone/service works perfectly. They even give the first month free, can't beat that. I'm not one to write reviews but I almost didn't go with Consumer Cellular because of the mixed reviews. I'm starting to wonder if they are even legit.

We have been members for many years now. We started with a cell phone for my 90 year old mother. Now we have their phones for my wife and sons, and I would switch as well if I didn't have two tablets and a phone with Verizon. But, time may change that. We now have also the "Ally" Medical Alert Button for my mother, who is now 93. When our first ally developed a slight problem, all it took was a phone call and they had it replaced for free within a few days. Every problem we have had has been solved by the best customer service we have ever used. Other companies should take note! Their phones used to be only for the aged, but now they have all sorts of phones and plans for the best prices around, from large smart phones to old flip phones. And we truly can cancel or change or add items quickly and easily!

good. would deff recommended to anyone who is tired of out of country customer service. this....this is what America customer service should be. DO IT!!!

The ability to speak with representatives who knew their craft extremely well. Also they were able to communicate to you via step by step process that was easy to understand.

The representative made the whole transfer easy. He was very patient throughout the transfer. Have had consumer now for several days and absolutely no problems.

After using several different cell phone companies, Consumer Cellular has given me the best service, coverage, support, and at the best price of any of them. We have three lines costing fifteen dollars each plus only ten dollars for data because we don't use much data anymore. But when we did, we were never throttled until we went past 50 Gb and very rarely even then. The U.S. based customer service has always been outstanding. I'm really glad I took their 30 day offer because the coverage turned out to be better than the Ver I was using. In my experience they are the best PERIOD!

The above review is erroneous (and it claims to be dated April 2023!). Specifically, the review states, "Consumer Cellular doesn't offer unlimited data-the highest plan includes only 25 GB of data." That is patently false. I switched to Consumer Cellular from ATT precisely because I could get unlimited phone, text and data(throttled at 50GB - same as ATT) for both my iPad and iPhone for $61.75/month. ATT quoted me a price of over twice that, so I switched. I no longer worry about excessive data use, and I notice no change of call quality, but I haven't traveled with the phone since switching. That will be the real test. So far, I'm very satisfied, though.

I have using Consumer Cellular for about 4 years... with no issues! The service has been fine as expected, and the pricing very fair especially for seniors! When I needed a new iPhone XR (moving up from iPhone 6) CC pricing was fair ( basically the same as most others at the time) and the 24 monthly payments is working well for me. AARP membership offers a small discount too.

I was thinking of switching 4 lines from VZW to Consumer Cellular and read the reviews here. They were mostly negative so I was a bit put off and decided to get a test number/SIM to try out. Everything went well, the connection was excellent and so I switched over all 4 lines. Not only am I paying about half of what I was paying with VZW, but I get more data. Customer service is excellent. They are all in US, and very pleasant and helpful. Holding time was 1 hour, 20 minutes, 0 minutes, 2 minutes on the 4 occasions I had to call to get my number ported over. Best decision I made!!!!

We love Consumer Cellular. They have been our provider for years. There is always someone patient and understanding on the help line. Never have we had a problem with our bill. The minor issues we have had with our phones were quickly and easily taken care of with their excellent customer service. If you're looking for a provider, look no further!

Elderly Retired: My wife and I moved from Verizon to CC over 5 years ago for cutting our monthly cell phone bill less than half. Less than $50 per month for 2 phones was a no-brainer! We started with the “Huawei Ascend 2” and loved this phone! A little over a year ago we both moved to the iPhone 6S. This phone is a bit narrower than the Huawei and much lighter! We both like the iPhone with all its great features and both sync our phones to iTunes for loading music! The only drawback with the iPhone is we never knew when we had a voice mail? Voicemail Screen in our phone app was always blank! Always had to dial “1” to check to see if we had voicemail! Recently had a friend with an iPhone 8 show her Voicemail tabbed screen alerting incoming voicemails with even a little recording on her Phone. So why don’t we have this feature with CC? First Customer Support call was a Female in Oregon. She did mention that I need to set up my “Visual Voicemail” but could not walk me through that setup on this first call! I then did some Google searching and found this: Receiving the notification is a feature provided by your service provider - it's called a MWI (Message Waiting Indicator). Generally it requires a bind between their voicemail server and their SMSC so that the notification can be passed to your phone over the SMS network. In general, these are sent as "push" notifications - the server informs your phone you have a voicemail. This is what allows your phone to produce an alert/notification even when it is locked and the voicemail app isn't running. Essentially, if you're having issues with this, but can still access your voicemail, then you should push back to your service provider using the above details to sound like you know what you're talking about iPhone Visual Voicemail needs to be provisioned on the customer account. iPhone Visual Voicemail also requires a back end Visual Voicemail server on the phone company's end. If they don't have one, a customer's iPhone will only receive regular voicemail, with no way for the phone app to indicate any number of messages received. Armed with this great bit of information I called Charlotte Customer Support in Arizona! She brought up my recent call case info and could not understand why the first agent did not activate Visual Voicemail on our 2 phones? Does this cost any extra? No this feature is included in all of our iPhone plans! Now I am wondering why this was never activated when we moved from Android to iPhones? After she left me on hold to accomplish this activation she came back to talk me through Visual Voicemail set up. Do you have latest IOS? Yes Version 12.2! Again after trying several different steps we could not get it to work. She suggested that it might be my only one or two bar signal strength at my house and I need to drive to a stronger cell signal need at least 3 bars. Ok I will try that. Well this did not work either! On my third call to Nicha in Arizona she did a reset of my mailbox and I still could not set up Visual Voicemail? After doing some more Google searching about this issue I found that I might try restoring my phone to a recent backup in iTunes. We don’t use iCloud so our phones are backed up to PC and MacBook! This did erase current saved text messages and my wife was a little upset losing those! Sure enough doing a Backup Restore in iTunes suddenly activated Visual Voicemail on the reboot! Although we like CC for its great prices and great coverage in Florida there is a definite lack of strong technical support from customer service! Hope this may help those out there in this CONUNDRUM!

The price is right! Can not beat Consumer Cellular for value. Usually have no problem with calls most everywhere in the US. However, customer service has declined since we signed up. A couple of years ago we could call and an agent would pick right up. Now, it's a wait or use automated call-back. Biggest drawback is that credit card company and the IRS could not send a verification code to my phone because the number "could not be verified" as belonging to me! I'm told by CC customer service that my caller ID will only ever show up as "wireless caller," never my name unless the call is to someone with me in their contacts. That explains the problem . A real drawback but I guess worth putting up with given the price of service with CC is a fraction of directly with a wireless carrier.

My wife and I switched from AT&T coverage years ago as we were paying a fortune for minimal talk minutes with no texting or data. Fast forward and now with Consumer Cellular we have unlimited talk and text and a minimal 250MB data for $33.25 + tax/fees monthly, and can increase data plan for a low cost. We purchased our phones. Connectivity is great.

I have been a consumer cellular customer for a number of years and have been very satisfied with their service. I have two phones on my account and seldom go over 2gb of data use. With taxes my total bill is about $60 every month. The few times I have had to contact customer service I received prompt and courteous service. If the service does not meet your expectations then maybe you should of done more research . For what they offer at the price they are very good.

I've used Consumer Cellular for four years. I stay with them because they're a great value and have reliable service. Instead of adding high fees when I go over my plan's limit, they just bump me up into the next-level plan, which is just a few dollars more. At the end of that billing period, I switch back to the lower-cost plan. It's painless and very affordable. Their fees are extremely reasonable and as far as I know have not even gone up since I've been a customer. They also do not require a contract. When I first became a customer, they didn't have a very good selection of phones, but that's improving; they have phones by Apple and Samsung now (although I use a great little Moto that I love that was only $100). The only reason I would not give them five stars is because their e-mail support is awful. If you have a technical problem, call them and speak to a live human. Their phone support is good. But if you e-mail them with a problem, you'll get a cut-and-paste reply that makes little sense and probably won't solve your problem. Skip it and call them instead. I have never used their phone service in another country, so I can't comment on that.

I have been with Consumer Cellular since Jan. 2012. They have exceeded my EVERY expectation since joining them. Their phones, accessories, talk & data plans, AND their knowledgeable, friendly (& PATIENT!) service reps are incredible! I have had nothing but great experiences with them from day one, and the folks I have referred to them feel the same way! I would not consider switching carriers - even for a cheaper rate! I plan to remain one of Consumer Cellular's biggest fans! I've NEVER been disappointed!

Got my phone and it was packaged securely. Everything went flawlessly with transferring my data. Also, they don't charge crazy activation fees.

Very professional, the employees were highly educated on Consumer cellular products. They did whatever they could to make our deal work!