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In 30 years we electrified 95% of the US. Since 1980's only 8% of US has broadband, reliable cell - SHAME ON THE US AND ITS GREED. When your contract ends go dark. Then they'll know!

Verizon barely works here and when it does most of the conversation inaudibly chopped up I used to have Surewest which worked well but Verizon bought them and did not take all the radio-towers held by Surewest claiming overlapping coverage. Well this supposed overlapping coverage is not true as they state, now either tower is over 6 miles from me and there was a active tower within 2 miles. Since that tower shut down I went from FULL 5 bars to 1 if any bars. Service now is lousy and I will likely switch if a better coverage is available from alternate provider!

Verizon Wireless has been improved in the Georgetown, Garden Valley, and Kelsey areas ever since they picked up Mountain Cellular. Much better than Cingular. There are very few places I can't make a call. Bars range from 1 to 4 depending on the location. In some places calls become choppy on my Motoroloa phone. My daughter's Nokia phone gets much better reception with much less choppy-ness. She only seems to have problems in some areas in Cool. I have been very pleased with the coverage in our area, and only hope that signal strength improves. I purchased a tri-band Motorola phone thinking I would need it to fall back on analog service, but have nor needed it. My daughter and I can keep in touch using text messaging from almost anywhere on the Georgetown divide, and I can even use web services to check my usage and download extras.