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Some of my friends can't understand why I use T-Mobile. They believe the advertising regarding network quality from Verizon and AT&T. At my location, Verizon's service provides one one or two bars and does not always penetrate inside my home. Sprint coverage is fairly good except during afternoon rush hour when you can't make or receive a call because their inadequate number of circuits are in use by commuters on the nearby expressway. AT&T works fairly well at my home, but their coverage throughout the Tampa Bay area is disappointing. While in my home market, is is very rare that drop a call or have a problem making an outgoing call. The other good news is that I am paying less with T-Mobile than I would be with the other carriers.
On good days I get 1 bar, mostly no bars. Sometimes difficult to carry on a conversation inside the house that lasts more than a couple of minutes. Also have had dropped calls and occasionally text messages saying I missed a call even though I had the phone next to me. CS and tech support have tried to be helpful but in the 60 days I've had the new phone, we've gotten nowhere. The interesting thing is, I was an Alltel customer for the last 15 years with absolutely no problems and they were merged into Verizon in early July. They tell me they've taken taken over Alltel's towers and that I should be connecting to the same tower (here at home where I am 95% of the time)but the service is now very bad. I'm very sorry that I canceled my land line at the same time I signed a new 2 year contract.
Constant dropped calls no bars to two around the whole area. Same with T-Mobile though. Opened several problems with Verizon many calls back but no one actually did anything to help. VZ sales told me every phone was super antennas. The phone blogs say different. Why the constant flux in signal strength ??? VZ says they saw NO DROPPED calls from my phone while there were many that very day. Possibly the towers are OVER BUSY and drop calls\???
I moved to Tampa three months ago, from Jacksonville. My phone has not worked since I got here. If I walk around my house hitting send over and over again, sometimes I am lucky enough to get through but it's very rare and it never lasts (and it's very difficult to hear the person on the other line). I have yet to make it through a phone call without losing service, on those rare times I can get through at all. I gave it a reception rating of 1, because there is a very tiny chance of getting reception. But it is much closer to a rating of 0, because I have zero reception most of the time.