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I just moved into Greenville Place, and my Virgin phone has trouble getting a signal. I have to walk to the highway to make calls, and even then, they get dropped. I thought this was because I had a pay-as-you-go phone, but looking at these entries it seems like most cell phone companies has this problem in this area. I heard that Sprint has better strategies for dealing with Delaware. Anyone have luck with them?
Have the old 1 cent promo phone from 1998 still works. I have a grandfathered in old plan from T Mobile circa 1995. I have driven all around! the Rt 141 up to 202, you loose signal just over bridge by X station dead til you get in front of Alapocus woods entry (contractor entrance to Site) fine from there up to Faulk rd and over past Silverside Rd there is no T mobile coverage, but you can manually grab onto Verizon their Cust svc says they have no T mobile towers in the area, but the old phones scan for whatever is in the area and let you use it !?! GO FIGURE... Rt 100 from 141 area is good until you go down by Brandywine River to go N to end up by Concord Mall / Naamans area dead zone to top of the hill ~1 / 2 mile... No matter what you have or who with no bars down by Hagley museum along Brandywine river... where the Montchanin Post office is you can get 1 or 2 bars, but 100 feet away by parents home zilch ! bEST thing is to drive where you usually go, and monitor the signal srength so you know where your local dead spots are.. DE is mostly flat so they did very little tower coverage, anywhere there is a long slope with some high ground immediately next to the roads bad to no signal... Concrete apartment buildings or lots of metal buldings block reception until you go outside... We have way too many people who stand outside and scream into cell phones middle of night in residential areas... keep a land line at home! trust me.. no one needs to be on the cell every second of the day and night...
I had difficulty receiving a strong enough signal to make calls from my home, so I upgraded the phone to one that can connect to my router and get a good signal and that works fine. But if my router is out I can't get a good enough cell tower signal at home to make a call and be sure that it's not going to cut off in mid-call.
No reception at all within most of this building for Verizon. Can't get or place calls. Text msgs. or any 3G service impossible. Co-worker sitting 6 feet behind me has AT&T, and has full service.
The reception is terrible inside the house. I have to stand outside in order to have a conversationa and that doesn't always work. AT&T says there is a tower nearby and I should have great service, yea right!
the truth of the reception issues depends on the phone you use with ATT and Verizon really. I have ATT so does my room mate and I get service everywhere.. however she has the new Samsung and she could sit next to me and loose signal. same with verizon. my mother has an older razer and she looses service all the time. my sister has the envy and never looses signal. so phone scoop your phone before purches it will save you a world of trouble. all and all I have few problem with ATT. but I think that has a lot to do with my sony erricson phone, which is most of the reason why I am an AT&T costomer due to the fact that they carry that brand.
Zero reception for the last 5 days. Noticed that reception starting decreasing a week or two before, spotty, with bars fluctuating from 1-3, then 0 bars. Have discussed with AT&T customer service (using my land line!) and have been to an AT&T store twice. Each time they re-set the phone, I have service in the store and by the time I drive home my phone loses all reception. Phones have been checked out by AT&T, sim cards changed twice, powered off and on several times. My husband has the identical problem with his phone. No signal in Trolley Square, no signal in Maryland. Once our bars go down to zero we can't seem to get service back without going to an AT&T store for a temporary fix. We never had a problem when we were with Cingular. Since AT&T has taken over our service has declined. And worse, no one at AT&T can solve the problem or give us a reason for continued poor and / or totally missing service.
