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Very poor reception in this area, outdoors okay. One step inside home no signals at all.

Switched to Verizon today for the new BlackBerry Bold they got. I love it. Service is better then AT&T, and I love the Push To Talk. :) Data is very fast.

Zone fluctuates radically from 1,2 bars to 5 bars to 0 bars dropped calls. Looking to change carriers.

Verizon service is very reliable. All my family and most of my friends have switch to Verizon from AT&T. The 3G service is wonderful and fast. I have not had a dropped call yet too. Every one should check out Verizon.

Switch from AT&T, the best service I have ever used!

People have to try to call us multiple times when we are at home, but keep getting random different messages about invalid numbers / busy netwrok / call cannot be completed / etc. Constant call dropping. We used to get great service here, but it's been awful since last fall (over 6 months). Customer service has gone downhill too. I actually got a lecture about how we "obviously don't have service issues because we use a lot of minutes" from a customer service rep! In other words she implied we were lying to try toget credit. I explained to her that we don't use a land line and advised her to look and see how many time we called the same numbers back-to-back (i.e. calls dropped). I have also had terrivle time with my PPC6700 phone and they keep replacing it with banged-up refurbs, some of which don't even work when they arrive! We're switching. I was planning to go ATT, but I see many issues here. Anyone have anyscopp on Alltel?

I get great reception on GSM pretty much everywhere around town.

Reception is poor with frequent dropped calls and extremely slow data service in my neighborhood. Calls to my cell rarely ring going straight to voice mail. Even texting fails frequently. phone reports "no service" about 25% of the time with 1 bar the rest of the time. I have complained numerous times and use their iPhone APP to report every problem. Nothing will change. Since AT&T has the land service contract in BR they have no incentive to improve cell phone service to the point that it will replace the land line service. Verizon has no similar conflict of interest and as soon as my contract expires, I'm going to try them.

Looks like from the comments above this has been a problem in this neighborhood for five years at least. AT&T is "Universal," eh? I have friends who live there and who drive through there and who have AT&T (as do I) and I'd bet my life there will be a dropped call 95% of the time. Average, the rest of the calls I make, probably only 20%, which is still way too high.

Just got my HTC EVO, the coverage is good at LSU area, but the internet speed is not as fast as AT&T, comparing the price it is worth to have Sprint family plan for almost half of AT&T though.