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basicly always good reception, this web sight seems to be a haven for complainers. I have used my Verizon in much of maine and had very few dropped calls or poor reception. I have a hard time believing all these Verizon complainers - they either have a bad phone or they live in an obscure location.
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!
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.
