# Spouse reports TracPhone won't work in San Antonio **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 1, 2011, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spouse-reports-tracphone-wont-work-in-san-antonio/569830 "2011-02-01T22:11:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spouse-reports-tracphone-wont-work-in-san-antonio/569830/1 "2011-02-01T22:11:40Z")
My spouse had to go to San Antonio Texas and she reports back that her TracPhone won’t work anywhere there. Is there something wrong with her hardware or her plan or does TracPhone just not cover San Antonio? Actually she is out in some suburb about 20 minutes. I don’t know which way, towards Austin which is North and [?] perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spouse-reports-tracphone-wont-work-in-san-antonio/569830/2 "2011-02-02T02:11:42Z")
I don’t know but I just tried to look up Austin on the coverage map and the website just returns errors no matter what ZIP code I use (I also tried some ZIP codes in New York City for comparison). Perhaps Tracfone itself is having problems today? ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spouse-reports-tracphone-wont-work-in-san-antonio/569830/3 "2011-02-02T04:10:16Z")
When I had a TracPhone it wouldn’t work when I went to Omaha. So there are lots of places with no coverage.