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Location / Comment
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Verizon
 0 Out of 5
Phone Model: LG Dare (VX9700)
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125 S. West Ave., Wilmington, DE 19801 |
Fri Feb 13, 2009 |
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.
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AT&T
 1 Out of 5
Phone Model: Apple iPhone 3GS
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Foulk Rd. / Shipley Rd., Wilmington, DE 19803 |
Tue Sep 20, 2011 |
Terrible! lucky to get 2 bars yet, the map shows ATT tower less than 1 / 2 mile away
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AT&T
 0 Out of 5
Phone Model: Nokia 6230
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Rt. 202 / Sharpley Rd., Wilmington, DE 19803 |
Mon Oct 08, 2007 |
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.
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AT&T
 3 Out of 5
Phone Model: Motorola V550 |
Silverside and Concord Pike, Wilmington, DE 19803 |
Wed Sep 13, 2006 |
Reception is sometimes spotty in my house, while it is generally OK as I get farther away. There are some pockets that don't seem to get the same quality of service as others, but nothing that stands out as being incredibly poor. Cingular's service, on the other hand, leaves much to be desired...
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Nextel
 0 Out of 5
Phone Model: Motorola i860
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Concord Pike / Rt. 141, Wilmington, DE 19803 |
Sun Sep 25, 2005 |
I work at AI Dupont... .There is no reception at 202 and 141 and for the surrounding square mile.
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Nextel
 1 Out of 5
Phone Model: I855 |
Rt. 100 / Rt. 92, Wilmington, DE 19804 |
Tue Nov 07, 2006 |
Travelling the back roads is always a craqp shoot, instead of building new homes all the time, maybe a cell phone tower should be built.
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Verizon
 5 Out of 5
Phone Model: LG vx6100, vx9800 |
Maryland Ave. / Boxwood Rd., Wilmington, DE 19804 |
Sun Oct 09, 2005 |
I get great reception. I am right out of Newport. I work in Downtown Wilmington and get at least two bars inside the building. Never had a dropped call. No complaints here, I love VZW.
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AT&T
 1 Out of 5
Phone Model: samsung sgh-d807 |
Cleland Heights Neighborhood / Kirkwood Hgwy and Maryland Ave., Wilmington, DE 19805 |
Thu Mar 06, 2008 |
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!
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AT&T
 4 Out of 5
Phone Model: Sony Ericsson W300i
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Newport, Wilmington, DE 19805 |
Wed Jan 23, 2008 |
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.
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Sprint
 4 Out of 5
Phone Model: Sanyo vm4500 |
Maryland Ave., Wilmington, DE 19805 |
Thu Aug 25, 2005 |
Always a good reception, few dropped calls on I95 on my way to philly and sometimes in new castle area. But other than that calls are crystal clear 90 percent of the time, customer service is okay if you don't mind calling back to see how many times you get the same answer(to make sure it is the right answer). Very good reception in the house and in hospitals and malls.
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AT&T
 1 Out of 5
Phone Model: Samsung XGH X497 |
Ivy Rd. / Kentmere Pkwy., Wilmington, DE 19806 |
Wed Sep 20, 2006 |
Whether inside or outside, the reception is very poor in this area (north and west of the Delaware Art Museum). Cingular doesn't seem to care about the problem, even after three reports of problems over the last two years. Does anyone know how to get Cingular's attention? Does anyone know of a carrier that provides better reception in sip code 19806? (We'd jump to it in a flash!)
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AT&T
 1 Out of 5
Phone Model: Samsung SGH-X497
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Rockford Village, Wilmington, DE 19806 |
Tue Dec 20, 2005 |
Reception was adequate on my old cell phone (Siemens, also from Cingular), but my new Samsung X497 disappoints. Calls to Cingular resulted in a small improvement. We wait, with fingers crossed, for improved signal strength.
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AT&T
 0 Out of 5
Phone Model: Nokia 6200
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Trolley Square, Wilmington, DE 19806 |
Wed Jun 02, 2004 |
With the old Cingular network I had adequate coverage with the change to the Nokia 6200 I have none.
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Sprint
 1 Out of 5
Phone Model: LG Rumor 2 |
Greenville Place Apartments, Wilmington, DE 19807 |
Tue Sep 21, 2010 |
Constantly drops calls, can't receive or send calls, delayed texts.
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Virgin Mobile
 1 Out of 5
Phone Model: Kyocera K7 Rave |
Greenville Place, Greenville / Kennet Pike, Wilmington, DE 19807 |
Mon Aug 17, 2009 |
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?
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T-Mobile
 4 Out of 5
Phone Model: Nokia voicestream |
Rt 141 From 52 To 202 / Area Check Several Miles, Wilmington, DE 19807 |
Sat Aug 08, 2009 |
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...
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AT&T
 1 Out of 5
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Centreville, Wilmington, DE 19807 |
Wed Sep 20, 2006 |
No reception in my house unless I am on the second floor... .then I can get every other word. To use the phone I have to go outside and then lose about 50% of calls
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T-Mobile
 1 Out of 5
Phone Model: Motorola V180
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Delaware, Wilmington, DE 19807 |
Wed Mar 09, 2005 |
Never get reception, it always shows Cingular as an network to choose from but it then tells you you have no acces to this network. I hate T-Mobile, and Cingular is deffiently one of the best
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AT&T
 1 Out of 5
Phone Model: Apple iPhone 4
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Fairhill Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808 |
Fri Sep 02, 2011 |
Have to be outside the house to make or receive calls and only get 1-2 bars at best
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T-Mobile
 1 Out of 5
Phone Model: Samsung SGH-T409
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Centerville Rd. / Victoria Falls Lane, Wilmington, DE 19808 |
Tue Jul 28, 2009 |
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.
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