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I am on my phone all the time for work. Lose a few calls but overall I get pritty good coverage. Looking to change carriers mainly because of price of my phones. T-Mobile has a unlimited plan for 2 phones for 100.00 but need more info from T-Mobile customers first. I use about 3000 mins a month and it needs to work.
my phone allways says no network 0 bars I have been fight with them for a couple of years now. and they have no solution so I must have a landline phone in my home
I have poor coverage in Frederick, MD... . as well as DC. Some places are great, other are horrible. I see people chatting or surfing in areas where I don't get coverage. I'm going to start asking them who their providers are. I came here looking for guidance, but all the info seems dated.
I drive back roads between Frederick and Rockville. There are several areas along the back roads (Route 85 and Route 28), where I would depend on reception the most in an emergency, but I lose connection with calls I'm on, or have no service at all in those areas. More aggrivating than that, is I told Verizon to take me off their email list for special offers because I was considering a new carrier for the next contract period -- all I got was "okay -- you are off our list". Nothing saying they will foward my concerns to customer service, just okay, you're off. I think that's terrible customer service and they obviously aren't concerned about losing long-standing clients.
I had Sprint in Chicago and moved to Frederick about 9 months ago. While I never had a problem in chicago, around here my signal strength varies wildly, even sitting still in my apartment in town. Calls frequently drop or sound garbled. I haven't encountered a "dead zone" with absolutely no service, but it is utterly unreliable. With my plan expiring this summer, I'm definitely in the market for a new carrier.
Terrible coverage in my home off Pinecliff Dr.near Spring Ridge - usually I only get 1-2 bars (although I sometimes get 5 bars for a hour or two). MANY dropped calls. I have complained to Verizon, but they insist coverage in my area is excellent. Now that my contract has finally expired, I will be switching carriers. Also get poor coverage along RTE 85 in the shopping areas, such as Home Depot, Target and FSK Mall.
My phone gyrates wildly between 5 bars and 1 bar inside and outside my house, even while I'm being still. The real average reception is 1 bar. Constant muffled and stuttered voice reception with predictable drops during the afternoons. Inside or outside the house, it doesn't matter. Even if I drive towards Hwy. 15 on Opossumtown Pike the situation is little better. In fact, reception remains muffled until I hit the Key Mall. From April 17th until April 21st, my cell phone service was totally unusable, even for retrieving voice mail, even though I had "3 bars". That's a shame since Cingular works so well in the Atlanta area. I guess you can't travel, have just one cell phone, and expect to have any reception.
