We have to go outside and make sure the phone is facing a certain way. Sometimes there is just a pocket where we can be to use the phone. Something needs to be down to get better reception!

Dropped calls while travelling Pleasant Hill Rd. to Route 1. Often no service even once on Route 1 (north) to South Portland until Turnpike Ramp!

Very good reception, sometimes full. The intersection is almost line of sight from a tower.

Little to no reception in the valley around Fog and Plesant Hill. Most of scarborough is pretty low-lying, so coverage is usually iffy, but outside of this rut it's usable.

We get 0-2 bars, fluctuating, often minute by minute. Sometimes hours or days without service, then everything works again for a short while. Frequent dropped calls and no connects even with two bars showing. We are only a couple of hundred feet from Rt 1, maybe a mile from 295. Often reception is very iffy even on Rt 1 itself. The store at Maine Mall is not much help, claiming it's a tower issue. It appears that Verizon doesn't maintain their own towers - the store could give me no idea when things would be checked out, because they didn't know. Using their email advisor got me a canned email from who knows where thanking me for being a loyal Verizon customer.

I get frequent dropped calls with Verizon throughout Scarborough. Outside of my house (Pleasant Hill area), I get 2-3 bars, once inside, it drops to 1 bar and no one can hear me if I'm in the middle of a call. Looking to switch out of Verizon as soon as contract is up!

Reception bars vary from 1-3. Even with 2 bars. there are days that the phone refuses to connect. Other days, there are 3 reception bars and service is ok. Often, signal levels vary on a minute by minute basis, from nothing to 3 bars and back. Dropped calls are common. Reception is worse on weekends and at nights, so the problem is probably not just a signal propagation issue. There was no service for about a week after the big windstorm, followed by a couple of weeks of excellent service, degrading over the next few weeks to the usual poor and intermittent service.

Essentially no reception at home on Acorn Lane. Friends at Higgins Beach report no reception also.

Verizon's reception even with new phone is very poor in Scarborough's Black Point Rd.area. Receiving and making calls is no longer possible with verizon's CDMA technology. Signal strength appears strong but calls are repeatedly dropped with no warning. Closer to town and the Mall is ok.

Reception is very poor all over Scarborough, except near Maine Mall. Service east of Route 1 is sporatic at best. This is true for AT&T GSM and TDMA as well as Verizon. Town of Scarborough is dragging their feet on getting a proposed US Cellular tower. Am trying to get a T-Mobile phone to try as AT&T phone picked up T-Mobile tower in Biddeford and dragged signal back to Scarborough for a few minutes and got full reception.