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no problems whatsoever in the QC area. no dropped calls and great reception in my apartment, which was hard to come by with other carriers. rural iowa is a different story, however.

99.9% of the time it works great, you really have to go off the beaten path to hit dead spots. 15-20 miles off the interstate in rural Iowa and its without signal.

I am still in a 30 day trial period with Qwest on my service. Some days I cannot call out or receive phone calls. Several areas in Bettendorf I have dropped calls. I am wondering if the phone makes a difference as to being able to pull in the signal.

I've had Sprint for the last 4 years, The signal reception at my house is non-existant. It works best when am outside on my roof, I get 2 bars then. There's spotty reception in Davenport, most of the time I get between 2 and 3 bars. Even in Chicago when I go there I get spotty reception and a week signal. I travel with a lot of diffrent people between Omaha and Chicago ant it appears that the best reception is with Cingular (typically 4 and 5 bars) and Verizon is next with 3 and 4 bars. Most of the other carriers run between 2 and 3 bars. Over the past 4 years Cingular has definitely risen to the top of the heap with their "more bars in more places" campaign. Of course this was not a scientific study, there were many diffrent phones in many diffrent vehicles in a whole bunch of diffrent places, getting the information was just a curiosity thing that I decided to keep track of in my vehicle log book. Most of the people I rode with thought I was a little off-center for keeping track, but they're the ones asking ME "which carrier I should go with?".

New tower going up btwn Middle Rd and Devil's Glen Rd on Hopewell Ave. Is this operational yet? What carrier(s) will get to use this tower? I have had Verizon for about 4 years and travel all over IA and central IL. Verizon keeps getting better coverage for me. I finally get two bars in my home office, routinely. I have noticed that *228 once a month will help add new towers to the programming of my phone.

I got terrible reception with my previous GSM carrier in the area. Since my switch to Verizon 3 years ago I haven't dropped a single call and have no reception issues. There's no way I'd switch.