Hello again... An update to my Wed March 12, 2008 statement... I saw new antennas going up on the water tower in Taneytown and asked the workers who the carrier was. It was AT&T. I broke contract with Verizon and took my number(s) over to AT&T. Verizon was not happy, saying I owed them $175 per phone for ''early termination fee''. I told them ''afraid not, you said I could break contract because of no improvement to signal strength'' and gave them the trouble ticket number. I guess they will get off their a**es now that there's new competition in town. I am loving life! Full strength (4 to 5 bars) in all the surrounding areas (Harney, Longville, Bridgeport, Emmitsburg, etc.) Why so excited about a stupid cell signal? Besides the lack of any carrier having good signal here, if you have the ''756'' land line exchange, you know anything out of Taneytown is long distance (for example, '876' Westminster). Now I can drop the land line if I want and use my cell phone for all my calls. I was so confident with the signal strength, I even bought a wireless broadband card from them. Finally, High Speed internet in the sticks! This AT&T 3G network rocks!

Update to my Verizon dilemma... AT&T has just put up new antennas in Taneytown and I switched to them I have 4~5 bars on my phone and can now make calls from home. I dropped my foreign exchange number (land line) and am thinking of dropping the land line altogether. I even got a wireless internet card through AT&T and now have high speed internet in the sticks! Don't let the Verizon coverage map fool you. anything outside of town is a dead zone. At the least, try the phone they offer you and return it if you have dropped calls within the 30 day limit.

about the only carrier that hasnt dropped a call when driving down 140 from Taneytown to Emmitsburg

I called and complained too, and decided to cancel and gave the reason as poor reception. Of course they could see by my phone use I barely used it. So they offered a new service for 15.99 a month! Yep, emergency phone is what it's called. So I have a cell phone that works once I go south of here. Not a perfect solution but at least I am not paying over 40 bucks a month for it!

"You are in a known trouble area with no improvements planned to increase reception. We will allow you to break contract in this situation." I also have been told this. I wouldn't mind so much if they would have told me about this when I signed up for there "great" service. I have no problems once I get to town.

Poor to no reception has lead me to this site. Close to the Monocacy River, about 4 miles NW of Taneytown is my home and I'm looking for answers to my dropped calls. Friends with AT&T Cingular, Nextel and T-Mobile all have poor reception too. Short of installing a booster antenna, I don't know what to do. I submitted a "trouble ticket" with Verizon and the results were, and I quote... "You are in a known trouble site with no improvements planned to increase reception. We will allow you to break contract in this situation." How about fixing the situation?

Have tried Cingular, Nextel, Verizon and now T-mobile. None have decent coverage for miles in all directions including Littlestown, PA (a fairly large town). Most of the area has "0" bars, none more than 2 bars. Have lived here for a decade, all companies listed above have "promised" new cell towers in area, However when we offered our farm for cell site (on a ridge) none were interested.