Consumer Cellular

An MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) sells mobile service without owning cellular infrastructure. MVNOs like Consumer Cellular lease access to major carrier networks in the United States and deliver coverage using those host networks.

Consumer Cellular uses AT&T for coverage in the United States.

Consumer Cellular uses the same networks as the major carriers, so its coverage is the coverage of its host networks. The carrier cards above rate every major network in the United States; the ones marked “Used by Consumer Cellular” are the networks Consumer Cellular runs on.

Search for your address on the coverage map on this page. Consumer Cellular runs on its host networks, so their coverage is Consumer Cellular's coverage.

Each carrier card has a five-dot rating for coverage, performance, and reliability, plus an overall rating. Coverage is how much of the United States the FCC reports as covered. Performance is the typical download and upload speeds and response time in real speed tests. Reliability is how fast the slowest 10% of tests are and how often tests connect, so it shows how a network holds up when it's busy. The overall rating weighs coverage 50%, reliability 30%, and performance 20%. A whole country takes in wide areas nobody lives in, so country-wide ratings are more lenient than the ratings on state, county, and city pages.

The performance metrics summarize median download speed, upload speed, and latency from crowdsourced tests on each network above. Higher download/upload and lower latency indicate a faster, more responsive connection.

The map shows the coverage carriers report to the FCC, so an empty area is a place the carrier doesn't report coverage. The speed test view is built from crowdsourced tests, so places with few recent tests can look empty there. It fills in as more tests are collected.