The Jitterbug is a multi-carrier phone - you sign up with Jitterbug, not AT&T or Verizon or Sprint, etc. Jitterbug has cut deals with virtually all the major carriers. The phone uses whatever carrier is closest/strongest. We had a 37 hour power outage in 2007 (the famous August wind storm in DuPage county and Chicago) which caused all manner of services to go down. My wife's and daughters' phones almost completely lost service - at best one bar on their Nokias - while my Jitterbug was rock solid. I'm guessing that the nearest AT&T (Cingular) node went down with the power and their phones were trying to attach to the next nearest - too far away to get a good signal but still close enough to ID the phones and keep them from going into roaming, so they could attach to someone else's closer node. My Jitterbug just used whoever was strongest and retained service. Somebody's node in our town was still working but not AT&T's.


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