04-10-2016, 07:37 AM
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Originally posted by Lee M-S
Oddly enough, my Tracfone got no bars inside Walmart the other day, and said "emergency calls only". It worked in there in the past, and I tried it in several places in the store. Lots of other people were using phones in the store, so it isn't a total blackout.
Tracfone and others, contract for the use of towers for their customers. However, most of the bigger cell providers, the owners of the towers, reserve the right to bump or restrict the small contract companies users from access in the event that all of the channels are busy on a tower. They obviously want their own customers to retain best service availability. Generally, that's a couple minute wait to clear.
It is the price to pay for the cheap service. If you don't like it, your solution is to go with a major carrier.