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Commuting to work I loose calls and pickup a roaming carrier on ridge before marriotsville2. From there until frederick road and marritsville I'm in roam. If I establish a call before I hit this roam area, I'm guarenteed to loose the call. Roaming maybe included with my plan, but it a pain to constantly hit redial.
It's recently been worse and worse. With Verizon's "free after 9" program, I usually only make calls after 9pm, but I have to stand outside on my driveway to even get a signal! I have one corner in my room that gets about two bars, but that's if I'm lucky. Funny thing is, before 9pm, I have 3-4 bars almost everywhere in E-burg. Uh, what the heck?
Within the last month or two, I no longer have any service in my house. What makes it worse is that I cancelled long-distance service at my house a couple of years ago. I can no longer make long distance calls from my home. I have called to complain, but Cingular have no answers.
Reception from Fort Meade to Sykesville is OK until I get to Piney Ridge Dr.(almost home). Then it suddenly drops out. I get no reception inside my house, unless I stand in the kitchen and try to face north (strange, I know). Then I can get two bars, and if I'm lucky, I might see a third bar appear from time to time. I can't really depend on my cell phone service out here, which is why I keep my landline. Oh, and I have ZERO reception inside most stores in Eldersburg. NONE.
Reception in Eldersburg goes from good to poor over a short distance and worse in bad weather. Reception is great in what we locals call the Marriotsville Hole where nobody lives, but poor in some densely poplulated communities such as in parts of Bonnie Brae. In the lower areas, coverage is poor at best, yet you can almost see the Marriotsville Tower. I also knew about the Piny Run tower and reception in that part of Sykesville is great even in the huge holes along parts of Barthelow Rd. and all of Rt 27 at the end of which appears to be two towers in close proximity. The southern most part of Carroll County (Eldersburg) is terrible with signals rising and falling constantly and inconsistant coverage. Coverage in buildings is always poor to non existent. The tower map lists another cell site at Springfield Hospital which should cover some of the spots I am writing about but appears not to be active. I live about a half a mile away and can see that towers lights. If this is an active cell site, it is very poor relative to the Piney Run or Marriotsville site coverages. I switched from AT&T (no coverage) to Verizon (poor, spotty coverage that doesn't penetrate buildings at all). Verizon works well in many areas of low population density (makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?) and also the Westminster, northern Carroll County which has worse terrain, but sucks incredibilly in and around Eldersburg. I hope that tower at Springfield is a new one yet to be activated as opposed to one that exists with poor coverage. Its time to look at other services.
