03-23-2022, 02:52 PM
(03-21-2022, 12:49 PM)Fred Zyphal Wrote: First a short back story, then the answer at the end. I live out in the trees in Washington State, where there is virtually no signal. Because Comcast has cable buried in the road, I have decent internet, so about 5 years ago Verizon gave me a "network extender" which plugs into my local network and gives me my own private little cell tower inside my house. This has worked great with my 3G Palm Pre 3, but 3G is going away soon so I'm paying close attention to my original PinePhone and my new Pro now. Verizon said they would allow my PinePhone on the network, but I filled out the forms a long time ago, and it's going nowhere. In the meantime, I paid Consumer Cellular $9 a month to hang on to my old land line number that I had for about 25 years. This has turned out to be a blessing for the PinePhone because Verizon seems to be useless. I took the already activated SIM out of my cheap CC phone and stuck it in the original PinePhone and it worked, although I had to stand in one corner of the house near a window on coffee table to get usable signal. Once the PinePhone Pro arrived I was tickled to discover that it works far far better, I can use it in the deepest darkest corners of the dungeon otherwise known as my basement, it's amazing, it just works. So the answer to your question ...
Consumer Cellular, which piggybacks on either AT&T or T Mobile, works great for me in the Pro.
My T-Mobile SIM works just fine, but it was already activated using another phone. Also tried Freedom POP SIM and it worked without issue. But, also registered it years ago using a different phone.
My PPP was able to pick up the T-Mobile data settings from the SIM, which usually doesn't work.
