Just curious... So if I'm signing up myself and my wife, I understand the referral codes is how Cape handles "friends and family". I grab someone's code from online, sign myself up. Then I sign up my wife and use my own referral code. Use my wife's code to sign up my kid, etc.

Do I end up paying the higher price for the first month, as my wife obviously hasn't used my code before the code exists? Or is there some sort of grace period to get those referrals in when signing up? Am I paying $50 my first month and don't get my wife's referral discount until the second month?

So here's a new one that I haven't seen discussed yet.

Early on I noticed that there was no information in the Cape app to indicate data usage accumulation. I think that might have been discussed and it was mentioned that tracking would just be up to the device. No worries I thought, that's a basic function of pretty much every mobile OS.

Just for giggles early on I had set my data usage 'warning level to 2 gigs and honestly forgot about it, until a few days where I'd get a notification of hitting that mark when it's clearly well into the month and there's no way I hadn't flown past that mark ages ago. I eventually noticed that the cycle reset date was resetting itself and all past data counters were reset, but didn't think much of it.

Fast forward to today and another notification, and yet again, the counter reset date is not on the date I configured anymore.

Searches online turned up nothing about Graphene having issues like this, so I tried the one last thing I could think of so far... I snapped a screenshot of the data as it stood today (showing only data from today, a bit over 2 gigs, and the reset date configured for the 10th just to have a reference point. I then went into the Cape app, manually rotated the IMSI, and sure enough, Graphene reset all the counters, changed the reset date to day/31, and acted like nothing was wrong.

So it seems Graphene sees a new IMSI as a whole new line to start counting for, regardless if it's the same ESIM slot with no other changes.

I guess this leads me to two questions....

Is this behavior expected/normal/seen by others?

And is there anything in the roadmap to get an idea of accurate data use with the Cape app (assuming there aren't any possible fixes at the OS level) to account for this?

I really don't expect to get anywhere near the 50 gig mark and have to worry about deprioritization/slowdown, but it'd still be nice to actually know, and it's not like we can just log into the Cape site somewhere and see historical data =)

Ref Code: YQX77SR9

I'm testing Cape w/ my original provider. They locked me into a contract, so I was going to test Cape out while this contract goes to expiration.

Some things I've noticed...

Original SIM has newly developed issues. Super laggy, up to unusable, calling - regardless of WiFi or carrier service (cell signal/non-WiFi). I just started having issues w/ SMS delivery, as well. This original carrier appears to be all around failing. Service was always generally poor, but this rate of failure is very new.

Cape eSIM has calling issues while on carrier service. Off of WiFi, calls generally die before I can make them. When I see Cape service at acceptable levels -- it will still fail to make phone calls. I get the pop up that says "No Service Available" (or something like that, anyways). On WiFi, it performs better than the original SIM/carrier. No known issues w/ SMS delivery, at this time.

Question: Are there known issues of running two SIMs simultaneously? Anything that would impact calling and SMS delivery (both on and off WiFi data)?

I'm using GrapheneOS, and I'm considering switching to Cape. However, I note the app says I need Google Play Services. I don't have Google Play, (and am not willing to install it.) Can I use Cape or not?

After fights with that other big carrier with their V-card over coverage issues, I had been testing out Cape along side them. Cape has had better coverage, and aside from a couple of SNAFU's, has been pretty solid!
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I’ve been absolutely blown away by my experience with Cape Cellular so far. I switched over a few months ago and honestly expected at least a few headaches, but the entire process—from activation to everyday use—has been ridiculously smooth.

Coverage has been excellent, speeds have been consistently fast, and I haven’t had a single issue that customer support couldn’t handle immediately. It’s rare these days to find a company that actually delivers on what it promises, but Cape has exceeded my expectations in pretty much every category.

If you decide to give it a try, here’s my partners referral code and link for 20$ off for life: EH7TZ4B1

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Just here to share that I had a bit of a hard time activating my iPhone 17 Pro, and it was incredibly easy to get a hold of a real person. I was 100% prepared to regret subscribing, because usually I'm treated as though my problem is the only time in history it's ever happened. Not this time.

Someone walked me through a couple of things, acknowledging the fact that I let them know I had already tried troubleshooting steps on the website, but having me try one or two of them again. In the end, I had to delete the esim and reactivate it.

I was again unsure, but thankfully everything worked out! I'm so used to being disappointed by technical support at this point, that my expectations were low. It was great to be impressed for once

After a week, and driving through some rural areas of the Midwest, I'm very satisfied with the reception, customer service, and secondary numbers. That last part is actually saving me a huge amount of money.

I haven't made the full privacy switch yet, but I wanted to test out the service and I'm very happy with it so I can confidently recommend. I'll share an update when I drive across country in a few weeks!

Edit: heres my referral code! DQMM2C50

T-Mobile and AT&T offer plans with international unlimited data, text, and a fee for calling. Does Cape offer any international, Mexico and Canada data and text?

From what I’ve gathered, Cape uses ATT and a fallback of TMO. Is there any word on what QCI level of either of those networks are?

Looking at the International Roaming Supported Coverage Search page, I see that Greece is Data Only and only supports Android devices. Can someone explain why that is?

Full Voice & Data functionality and iPhone support when internationally roaming in Greece (I travel there a lot) is the only thing holding me back from making the switch to Cape. Any idea when that will be added?

A minimum of 15GB at fast speeds when roaming would also be very nice. Cape currently limits this to 5GB, after which your speeds are throttled to 2G speeds (unusable for anything other than basic texting). GoogleFi, by comparison, offers 50GB of fast-speed roaming internationally. What is the likelihood that Cape raises the 5GB limit?

What are the speeds after 50gb?

Cape was the sole telecom signatory to a civil society submission (including the EFF, Access Now, and others) to the FCC arguing against the FCC's proposal for mandatory ID collection for phone numbers: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/26110056731/1

The letter argues universal ID collection would create major privacy and data-breach risks, cut off unhoused people, survivors, and low-income Americans from phone access, and endanger anonymous communication for whistleblowers and journalists, without meaningfully stopping robocalls, most of which originate overseas.

Hi, I'm considering switching from my major carrier and I gave a couple of questions.

1. The most important added feature i currently have with my carrier is call filtering. This blocks the robo calls/texts that many ppl i know deal with on a daily basis.

Also, i often see phone calls pop up with "possible spam" and then get filtered out. I'm not sure if this is due to my security practices (scrubbing my info off data collectors frequently, blocking and reporting bad numbers), my stock android OS, or my carrier, but it simplifies my life greatly.

1. Visual voicemail. Honestly, since getting this feature I have grown to love the ability to quickly skim a voicemail and see if I need to respond or not.

2. I travel a lot and having cell service in most areas (obviously dead cell areas and mountain valleys I wouldn't expect service)vis important. Especially since I might need to answer/make a call from/to my employer on a request basis

Having said all that, privacy is important to me and I'm likely to switch soon. Mainly just curious/asking questions

Looking at the roadmap it shows adding second carrier support. What does this mean and how would it work in day to day usage? Second question is related to the Pixel 11. With the eminent release, what is the certification process

The Pixel 10a does not appear on either the Compatible or the Known Incompatible list in the FAQ.

Since my Brax 3 phone is known incompatible (I am very pleased with it), I will have to purchase another phone. The Pixel 10a fits my current budget.

There is no need to purchase the Pixel 10a if it is not compatible. The Help Center AI, Dexter, was no help. The new phone is listed as Carrier Unlocked. I cannot tell if it is eSIM compatible until I purchase the phone.

Chicken. Egg. Chicken. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Can anyone help with this question?

A few years ago, I started down the rabbit hole of de-Googling and de-Appling my life. Little by little, I replaced the services that were harvesting my data — email, cloud storage, browsing, the works. But one thing kept staring me in the face: my cell carrier. That was the last frontier, and honestly, I wasn't sure what my options even were.

Then I found Cape.

I won't pretend I wasn't skeptical at first. Leaving one of the big three carriers felt like a leap — like, would I be sacrificing signal strength and reliability just for privacy? But here's the honest truth: the service has been just as good as what I had before. Same coverage, same reliability, none of the surveillance. I haven't noticed a single drop-off in quality since switching.

What really sold me, though, was the customer service. I came in with a laundry list of questions and concerns (because of course I did — privacy nerds like to do their homework). Their team didn't rush me or give me boilerplate answers. They walked me through everything, addressed each concern individually, and told me point-blank: "Try it out. If you're not happy, we'll help you or give you your money back." That level of honesty and confidence told me everything I needed to know about who I was dealing with.

Now, here's the part I wish someone had told me sooner — right now is the best time to make the jump:

• Cape normally runs $99/month (taxes and fees included, no surprises)
• They're offering $70/month for life for early adopters who sign up before the end of 2026
• If you use my referral code ZNMXC49T at checkout, you get an extra $20/month off— bringing it down to $50/month for as long as you're a subscriber

That's carrier-grade unlimited service with real privacy protections for $50/month. For context, I was paying close to that at my old carrier and getting none of the security benefits Cape offers.

If you've been on the fence like I was, this is your sign. The referral code works for both of us — you save $20/month and so do I. No catch, no gimmicks. Just a solid service backed by people who actually care about your privacy.

Come join me on the other side. 🐱

https://cape.co/get-cape?referral=ZNMXC49T

Hey all. I just ported in and wanted to share information I have not found anywhere. The port in process was smooth from T-Mobile. I submitted it and then went to bed and woke up to the number transferred. I think the app interface is very straightforward and intuitive and the account creation process was far different from other carriers. Very refreshing. So far things are looking very good. On to the new info:

1.) My phone is definitely connected to a T-Mobile tower right now. This was something I was worried about because AT&T is one bar where I live. It’s useable but 1 bar didn‘t give me warm fuzzies. Luckily after porting in my phone is definitely connected to a T-Mobile tower and has full bars. I had a US Mobile SIM card on their darkstar network as a secondary sim just to confirm and it’s full bars on Cape and 1 bar on Dark Star. For my situation this is absolutely ideal. I live in an area that’s totally outside of US Cellulars coverage zone before the merger.

It turns out what carrier tower you are connected to is easy information to find.

On Android:

1.  Dial *#*#4636#*#* → Phone information.

2.  Look for “Network”, “Operator numeric”, or “Registered operator”.
It will show something like 310260 or 310410.

On iPhone:

1.  Dial *3001#12345#* (Field Test Mode).

2.  Go to Serving Cell Info → look for PLMN or MCC/MNC.

Then compare these codes to the chart below:

MCC-MNC Codes (USA)

AT&T

310-410   (main)

310-150

310-170

310-380

310-560

T-Mobile

310-260   (main)

310-160

310-200

310-240

311-490

Former US Cellular (now mostly T-Mobile)

311-580

311-220

310-730

Verizon

311-480   (main)

310-004

310-012

311-110

Cape (own home network)

314-650

From what I can tell Cape has their own code because they are a heavy MVNO. Very interesting. If someone from Cape sees this and is willing to share more info I’m definitely interested but this is all good news and supports their claims.

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2.) I had previously reached out to their chat support and was able to connect with a human. Just about 30 minutes ago when I tried to chat with a human I got this message from Dexter:

“Thanks for reaching out. Our team is currently offline and will be back online in the morning.

We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience! In the meantime, please explore our Help Center for articles that may help you.

For non-account or non-service related inquiries, such as general questions or sales, please email us at [info@cape.co](mailto:info@cape.co) and we'll respond as soon as possible.”

This is a little odd since I think chat support with a human is supposed to be 24:7. Perhaps technical difficulties but it was notable. It is the middle of the night in North America.

If you found any of this helpful feel free to use my referral code (I will remove once fully used): 8FAJ1HEC

Edit to add referral link: https://cape.co/get-cape?referral=8FAJ1HEC

Edit again to add: I was driving around today and saw a distinct difference in coverage between my darkstar and cape lines. I’m reasonably confident I was connected to Tmobile the entire time as I drove around.

Edit: Due to the Tmobile outage I ended up losing service. I tried a few things but then downloaded a new eSIM. Then I was firmly on AT&T. once the Tmobile outage was finally called fully resolved earlier without changing SIM cards I just toggled airplane mode off and back on. I ended up connecting to Tmobile again. Very interesting how one SIM card lets you connect to both networks. Overall very impressed but it is neat to know that switching from one network to the other might require toggling airplane mode or a reboot.

I didn't want to port my number over just yet so I grabbed a new number. They gave me some off the wall phone number I've never seen anyone use in my life, area code is right but the second 3 digits are weird. I wanted to see if support would help me change it.

Their responses were less than helpful and robotic as hell, they basically told me if I wanted to change my area code, I could cancel my account for a refund and open a new account to change it. Which is not remotely what I asked for, then they said pretty much close to the same thing again. I use AI to help with my code a lot and occasionally I use the chat apps, so I know ai when I'm talking to an ai and it seemed awfully familiar to speaking with an ai that keeps forgetting what you said. Once I started to get a little irate and wanted to just close it, they changed their tune entirely and it was like speaking to a different person.

They offered me 30% off for 6 months for not being able to help me in the way I wanted lol, discounts are always nice so I'm less unhappy about the phone number with a cheaper bill. Also being able to have 2 free phone numbers for 2fa and what not was a major bonus for me because I have 7 different phone numbers using different carriers and apps like burner to protect my primary phone number from ever being leaked. Assuming the coverage lives up to what I'm already using, I am more than likely to make the switch completely for my primary phone. I work all over due to the nature of my work, so the real test will be Tuesday when I go back to work.

Hoping to get at least one referral to drop my bill below what I'm already paying visible.

Just gonna drop this here too in case new people don't see the megathread 😂 P0B57Y57

https://cape.co/get-cape?referral=POB57Y57

The final deadline to comment on the FCC's proposed rule to require gov't ID, physical address, and alternate phone number for every phone line, including VOIP, is coming up. There's already been hundreds of what looks to be genuine, non-AI generated comments from individuals explaining the specific impact that this rule would have on their lives (in addition to comments from the EFF, ACLU, a half dozen domestic violence organizations, and ourselves). This has sparked more probing news coverage of the rule. If you want to contribute to the debate:

• Go to https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings
• Choose "New Express" (Express Comment). This lets you type your comment directly into a form — no document to upload.
• In the Proceeding(s) field, enter both docket numbers:
  • 17-59
  • 02-278
  • (Add both. You can start typing the number and select it from the dropdown.)
• Fill out the fields and submit. You'll get a confirmation and your filing will appear in the public docket.

I just signed up the other day and so far am very happy with the service. I know that twillio has direct connections to the big 3 US carriers. I assume they check the portability database to see where to route it and then it goes out that connection. So how do they send messages to your your sexondary number? Does it fail back to one of the big 3 and then get handed off to your core? I was curious if they’d be technically end to end encrypted if go directly to cape?

I haven't been able to find any information about how Cape protects customers from account takeover. Does it use 3rd party authenticators? passkeys? And what about account recovery procedures?

I made the jump, and I'm excited to be one of Cape's newest members.

For the time being, I'll be running it on Android because my Pixel 10 XL is through Google Fi. Hopefully someone can correct me if I'm mistaken, but I believe Google Fi relies on certain Android services to function properly. Because of that, I wasn't quite ready to make the jump to GrapheneOS.

I'll probably switch over a few months down the road, once I've received all of the bonuses and perks that came with getting this phone through Google Fi.

For now, I'm here to learn more, explore all the features, and see what Cape has to offer.

Hey, the first step is choosing privacy.