EXHIBIT 23.1
 
                        CONSENT OF KPMG PEAT MARWICK LLP
 
   
The Board of Directors
Price Communications Wireless, Inc.
(formerly Palmer Wireless, Inc.):
    
 
   
We consent to the inclusion of our reports dated January 30, 1997, with respect
to the consolidated financial statements of Price Communications Wireless, Inc.
and subsidiaries (formerly Palmer Wireless, Inc.); Palmer Wireless Holdings,
Inc.; Cellular Systems of Southeast Alabama, Inc. and subsidiary; Albany
Cellular Partners and subsidiary (a Georgia Partnership); Cellular Dynamics
Telephone Company of Georgia; Columbus Cellular Telephone Company (a Georgia
Partnership); Dothan Cellular Telephone Company, Inc.; Macon Cellular Telephone
Systems Limited Partnership (A New Hampshire Limited Partnership); Montgomery
Cellular Holding Co. Inc. and subsidiary; Montgomery Cellular Telephone Company,
Inc.; Panama City Cellular Telephone Company, Ltd.; and Panhandle Cellular
Partnership as of December 31, 1996, and for each of the years in the two-year
period ended December 31, 1996, and the consolidated financial statements of
Savannah Cellular Limited Partnership (a Delaware Limited Partnership) as of
December 31, 1996, and for the year then ended, which reports appear in the Form
S-4 of Price Communications Wireless, Inc. and to the reference to our firm
under the heading "Experts" in the Prospectus.
    
 
   
                                          /s/ KPMG PEAT MARWICK LLP
    
 
   
                                          KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
    
 
   
Des Moines, Iowa
December 16, 1998