Posted on 03/11/2022 8:20:35 PM PST by pfflier
AMAC keeps pushing PureTalk over other wireless carriers as having no agenda or being "un-woke". How does PureTalk rate compared to other carriers in terms of access, reliability, cost and customer service? How easy is it to switch over?
So you going to just hang out in parking lots of businesses?
Sounds like you’re more the hanging out in parking lot type.
I have used Pure Talk for many years. Our 2 phones cost about 11.00 per month per phone, BUT we seldom use the phones and have the least amount of data( 300 Mega bytes). We don’t have our phones turned on except once or twice a week. Being retired helps a lot. They sub contract with AT&T, so great reception.
bttt
I have AMAC and get the reduced price for PURE TALK.
Voicemail interface took a little getting used to but works well. Can use my phone as an Internet hotspot, which you could NOT do with Patriot when I checked.
I never even get close to my 2 GB data quota. It's a good fit.
Call them to set up visual voicemail.
Switched over a few months ago. Satisfied, easy to change over.
My family is on Verizon now, rural area but not remote OR hilly. We are in the red on Verizon’s map, but lucky to get 2 bars signal strength at home.
Any way to get a guess whether another provider would be better?
Wifey and daughter have Samsung Galaxy-something phones; I have the smallest Samsung flip phone I could find, as I truly HATE carrying anything even bigger and would surely accidentally break it anyway.
Keep in mind this is the very same phone I had for using as a hotspot for over a year. A Hotspot is the main reason I even have a phone. Posting by phone sucks.
I signed up for AMAC a year ago. They had Puretalk deals. I do the $10 month plan and the $20/month unlimited plan. Works pretty good imo for my apple and android phones. But I’m not a big smartphoneafficianado.
We have had this phone service for many years now. $10.00 per month per line, so we pay 20.00 a month for two phones. We get these rates because we are members of AMAC. We have never gone over the allotted time or data usage. We use the phones for phone calls and text, nothing more. Oh, and we take pictures with the phones, too. We don’t use internet on them, although I do have weather.com on my phone. We ditched land lines back in 2017, so we have had this phone service since then. I guess it depends on what you use your cell phone for, whether or not you would be happy with their service.
Whose cells do they use, Verizon, AT&T, t-mobile?
“Whose cells do they use, Verizon, AT&T, t-mobile?”
It might not matter. My brother’s family went to a provider that advertised that they used Verizon’s towers. (Pure Talk or Straight Talk.) That itself wasn’t a lie, but what they didn’t say was that actual Verizon customers got better/stronger service. The customers on the “brand X” plan moved to the back of the line during times when too many users were active. Service sucked so they went to T-Mobile.
That was about five years ago, so I don’t know if that’s still the case.
A couple months ago they moved to Visible because they couldn’t get reception at their new home. They like it so far.
I looked into Visible for us but decided against it since there’s no way to reach customer service except via online chat — no phone number to call. If your problem is the phone itself there’s a good chance you can’t chat on it.
PureTalk is actually ATT
Thanks for that explanation. I didn’t know there was a name for that, i. e., “MVNO”. As I posted above, that happened to my brother when he went to Pure Talk or Straight Talk. If the Verizon towers had too many VZ users, my bro was “sucking hind tit” and service was crappy or even non-existent at times.
All cell towers have essentially the same priority list for connected devices/users.
When the tower gets busy, be it maxing out data transfer or the number of voice conversations, this is the order in which they throttle (reduce connection speed or quality) or just kick users off. Please note that 911 calls are given absolute priority at the expense of all non-emergency callers/bandwidth and do not fall into these categories.
Order in which users get booted:
1. Roaming users from other carriers - all major carriers have roaming agreements with each other though not all phones can talk to all networks. “Not our users, go bother your own carrier.”
2. MVNO users. “Technically not our direct users, not our problem.”
3. Prepaid users of the carrier. “You are our direct customers, but you pay us the least. We will make a best effort to keep you connected, but you come in second to...”
4. Postpaid users of the carrier. These people pay the most and get the highest ‘normal’ priority. They are only kicked or throttled in this scenario for 911 calls and first responder use.
We switched over a year ago from Verizon and have been delighted!
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