One month review on Cape Cellular (Hudson Valley, NY)
After about a month with Cape Cellular, I’m pretty happy with the switch. I’m based in the Lower Hudson Valley in New York and spend roughly half my time there and half in NYC. I was previously on Verizon, so that’s my main point of comparison. There are a few small pockets where Verizon had noticeably better service, but they’ve been minor enough that I don’t really care. Day to day, Cape has been remarkably reliable, and I haven’t noticed much of a difference in normal use. For me, the added privacy benefits are easily worth the occasional tradeoff in coverage.
I was also pleasantly surprised by how easy the actual switch was. I’ve switched carriers before, including going from T-Mobile to Verizon, and that experience was remarkably painful and much more complicated than I expected. Moving from Verizon to Cape was the opposite. The app walked me through porting my number and switching networks, and the whole process was smooth and fast with no real hiccups. The one exception was that, for about four days afterward, one-time passcodes from banks and other services weren’t showing up. That was genuinely stressful, and chatting with Cape customer service at the time didn’t give me much confidence that it was definitely going to resolve itself. Apparently delays with OTP messages can happen after porting a number, though, and after about four days everything started working normally.
Since then, I really haven’t had any issues. The only other downside I’ve noticed is some additional battery drain when I have all of Cape’s security features turned on, particularly Network Lock. Aside from that, the experience has been great. At this point, I’m planning to stick with Cape indefinitely.
Referral code for anyone who wants to give it a try: P97BDHN7