There's a dead zone at the hill near that intersection that no carrier and no phone keeps reception. Everyone that I have ever heard talk about that spot loses reception for the length of the hill.

Today is Monday, Aug 18th. As of about last Thursday (8 / 14), I suddenly started getting 4 of 4 bars of 3G signal. Prior to that, I was lucky to get 2 bars of Edge. Guessing a new tower was brought online, or an existing one was upgraded.

Verizon Tech support said they are aware of poor quality reception in the neighborhood - and that they have plans for a additional cell tower by Dec 2007

Reception at home: I had 3 Cingular phones, and none could get recpetion in my house or sometimes outside even though it showed one or two bars reception. Many neighbors have Verizon and have to go outside to get a good connection. I have 2 T-Mobile phones now and I can get reception in my house (2 bars). Fallouts: The T-Mobile connection is good enough to keep a call going without fallout. Cingular had many fallouts for me when I had a connection. Reception around Baltimore / Washington DC 695 and 495 Beltways: No problems encountered with T-Mobile. I had more fallouts and lost connections with Cingular on west side of 495 loop. Overall: It appears T-Mobile has a better infrastructure and cell tower equipment to support the call traffic. The reception based on the bars on the phones were identical, but I can make clean calls with T-Mobile and not have any connection with Cingular.

Had Cingular for 4 years and never could get decent reception at home. Bars vary wildly from no bar to 3 bars with mostly no bar showing at my house. I can see the bars moving like a tennis match. Reception is non existent inside the house. Does anyone have a service that works well in this area?

I am frustrated that I cannot use my phone inside my house at all. My wife has an Alltel phone (not available in MD) and has no problem with reception anyhwere. I have local number, Cingular service, and often cannot get reception in Ellicott city.

Just switched to Verizon's family plan from Cingular. Although the phone indicates a stronger signal at home, I cannot hold a call. The triband LG VX6100 will occasionally switch to analog, but does not do any better than the Motorola e815 in holding a call. Verizon 1-2 bars = dropped call, Cingular Blue 0-1 bar = can complete call. Both services give good signal on Rt. 29 but the voice quality from Verizon is poor, with the sound breaking up. Calls from Old Dobbin Way in Columbia break up too badly to understand the caller. We are going to go back to Cingular.

I gave Cingular the benefit of the doubt with 1 bar of reception. The reception changes from 0 bars "No Service" to 3 bars and back in a matter of seconds. I have to dial calls 3 and 4 times for them to actually get placed and then they will get dropped. I'm afraid to call any business clients. I've been told that this is temporary as Cingular merges the At&T equipment to complete it's merger and that it would be resolved last week. This has been happening for 3 weeks. I have had this account with AT&T for 6 years. I work from home and can't call any clients for fear of looking like an idiot. My husband's company (Arbutus) has it's corporate contract with Cingular and they met with their rep last week to break contract. This is no way to treat business clients. At least fess up that there is a problem.

I have experienced frequent dropped calls all around the 21042 area, but there seems to be hardly any reception behind Mt. Hebron High School. Ever since we "upgraded" to the digital reception we've had very spotty service compared to the analog service. I have a feeling it is our phone: LG C3100. We've had both of our phones replaced (swap for same model) but did not experience any improvements.

Full service outside the house and usually three to four out of five bars in the house with no dropped calls.