Cell Phone Communication While at the WHCC

[rmaynard 17,055]

As many of you know, Verizon is the big winner at the South Mountain Fairgrounds.

 

For those of you who have any phone on the AT&T network, you are 99% sh!t out of luck.

Those carriers include, but are not limited to:

 

Cricket Wireless

Consumer Cellular

Boost Mobile

H2O Wireless

PureTalk

Red Pocket Mobile

US Mobile (under their "Dark Star" network option)

Good2Go Mobile

FreeUP Mobile

FreedomPop

 

As of last year, T-Mobile did not work either. According Wallfish T-Mobile is okay. 

 

There may be more. Verizon service is excellent. Other members may chime with what works for them.

 

I personally have a dual SIM phone. My main system is Consumer Cellular (AT&T), but the other SIM is Tracfone (Verizon). For many years I just bought a burner on Verizon and forwarded all my calls to it before I reached the fairgrounds.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by rmaynard

[squonk 45,986]

Yup AT & T and Consumer Cellular. The double whammy. Randy has Verizon I think so I can borrow his phone unless I need to call him

 

I had a Trac Phone years ago. My B-I-L bought a new shop and had Verizon Installed there. He couldn't call anyone on his phone but I could on my $19.95 special!

 

They have been laying cables for almost a year now in the hospital since University of Rochester moved in. We have 3 Wi fi box gizmo's just in the shop alone. I'm telling everyone they have camera's in them to spy on us so now they are all paranoid! 

[wallfish 19,582]

T Mobile works there.

Not sure I if can stream Pullstart videos but calls text and emails are fine. 

[953 nut 64,976]

You have to use an older phone there.                     

[rmaynard 17,055]

By the time I was finished dialing, I'd have forgotten who I was calling.

[JCM 11,051]

13 minutes ago, rmaynard said:

By the time I was finished dialing, I'd have forgotten who I was calling.

Same here    

[adsm08 4,325]

I switched to PureTalk around Christmas 24, last year I had better reception than previous years on AT&T, however it was still not perfect. I could text consistently,  but calls were spotty and internet was basically out of the question.

 

My understanding is that they do not exclusively use AT&T, and closer to Shippensburg use some Verizon towers.

[Handy Don 16,189]

My car’s cellular connection is mostly on AT&T so it drops out a couple miles from the fairground at the terrain gets lumpier. Switched to CarPlay via my Verizon phone to resume navigation!