WiFi/CC

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I use Consumer Cellular for my phone connection. When at home I see that I can use, and do, the WiFi connection. When I look at the Internet Connection I have the WiFi checked and see the router I am using but I think I also see the Mobile network indicating CC Network. I guess my question would be are both of these active at the same time? If I place a call which one is used? If I search the Internet which one is used? Which service is active, when at home and the router WiFi indicates the Router? The Mobile network allows me to check the Data Roaming service which I think costs more money than normal connection. Being new to this environment I am confused. All comments, help and suggestions are welcome.

 

[svim]

Typically, a phone call will always go through your Consumer Cellular service, well unless you're using some kind of WiFi Calling service. But you do need to distinguish a difference in the three ways your phone uses for online connectivity -- there's WiFi and then two related but differing aspects to cellular connectivity. In that instance, there's mobile data and there's your basic cellular connectivity that's basic to your CC account.
With mobile data, that's a very, very rough equivalent to WiFi connectivity in that it involves higher data bandwidth. (With WiFi you're paying your ISP for the service, with mobile data you're paying CC for the service).
But phone calls, needing only a very low bandwidth, use your basic cellular connectivity, not WiFi nor mobile data. When you're at home, with your phone connected to both WiFi and your CC account, it will automatically prioritize connecting to WiFI, so when you're using apps and things that goes through your WiFi, but when a phone call comes in that phone call interaction still travels through your basic cellular connection (not mobile data) so in that situation your phone is using two of those three ways of online connectivity.
As for your CC account, part of your monthly payment involves a small fee for that base cellular connectivity, and then more fees for things like your mobile data usage (based on if you have an 'unlimited' plan or if you pay by how much you use per month).

 

[FollowingSeas]

Typically, a phone call will always go through your Consumer Cellular service, well unless you're using some kind of WiFi Calling service. But you do need to distinguish a difference in the three ways your phone uses for online connectivity -- there's WiFi and then two related but differing aspects to cellular connectivity. In that instance, there's mobile data and there's your basic cellular connectivity that's basic to your CC account.
With mobile data, that's a very, very rough equivalent to WiFi connectivity in that it involves higher data bandwidth. (With WiFi you're paying your ISP for the service, with mobile data you're paying CC for the service).
But phone calls, needing only a very low bandwidth, use your basic cellular connectivity, not WiFi nor mobile data. When you're at home, with your phone connected to both WiFi and your CC account, it will automatically prioritize connecting to WiFI, so when you're using apps and things that goes through your WiFi, but when a phone call comes in that phone call interaction still travels through your basic cellular connection (not mobile data) so in that situation you're phone is using two of those three ways of online connectivity.
As for your CC account, part of your monthly payment involves a small fee for that base cellular connectivity, and then more fees for things like your mobile data usage (based on if you have an 'unlimited' plan or if you pay by how much you use per month).

Thank you for that very interesting response. I will have to digest it a bit. It provided me with the answer to my query plus.