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I just switched to a new Galaxy Nexus 4g phone and have more dropped calls all over the Twin Cities area than I have in all my years of cell phone usage since 1997. Absolutely horrible service. I highly recommend staying away from this particular set up. I am about to go to the mat with these charlatans and their silly 4g nonsense. What a joke.

Like an ekg on a dead body, flat line. Imagine my suprise when I found out that the tower is less than 1 / 2 mile away. Meanwhile a side by side comparison with the wifes Sprint reception works perfect 5 out of 5 bars. Explaination given by Verizon was (1) that 62 corridor was low laying. (2) Also something about a church blocking the signal ( does anyone know of a high rise church?). (3) Verizon also said the height of towers being extra low in height do to proximity of airport. I do run a business off my phone and just today missed 2 calls from potential clients. Fortunately they left a voicemail which chimmed in later. As a contractor first contact is very important and can make a difference between having or not having work. I did get a voicemail from Verizon (cause I missed that call too) saying they would give a 50% discount on there network extender. This to me is admitting guilt and that they have a problem of not being able to fulfill their part of the contract. heres my problem with trying to stay a loyal customer; telling the wife I need to spend $150 just to use my phone. as you can imagine that is not going to go over well. AT ALL!

Verizon is terrible in Northern Minnesota. AT+T is adding new super tall cell phone towers. Time to switch carriers.

Very Poor Coverage. 0 to three bars max. Lost and distorted call continuosly. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. I'm going to switch coverage soon if it doesn't get any better. A phone has to work at your damn house first and foremost.

I have had Verizon for 8 years now. And the last year and a half have been hell. Started a buiness in a one level building. Service was fine at the time. Had a Blackberry Storm. Then all of a sudden I would have a voicemail and my phone never rang. Messages wouldn't send or all of a sudden I would get 5 messages. I use my cell phone as my primary line. Put up with it for a few months before I could upgrade. Then got the Samsung Fascinate. No problems what so ever! Loved the phone... about a month ago... .It ALL started again. Customer Service sucks. Been over everything 500 times. Oh..if I wanted to, I could buy a $250 service extender... um... ..This is your issue. Not mine. My clients have Verizon who sit in my chair and have no issues. My Co-worker 5 feet from me has Verizon and has NO issues. WTF?! I'm so over it I dont even know what to do anymore. HELP!

The signal fluctuates a lot even if you are standing in the same place not moving the phone. In my apartment I can't get any signal, but my roommate who also has Verizon can get 1-3 bars while I can only get 0-1.

Verizon dropped one call 11 times - a couple of words and then out. I have AT&T on my other phone and it works just fine to the same caller.

Many attempts to get Verizon to fix the problem. Not many dropped calls, but too choppy to effectively hold a conversation. Had Verizon for years, and signal strength has definitely deteriorated within the last few years. I don't even bother answering my phone in the house anymore. I wait for voicemail and retrieve with land line. Signal's no better outside either! I wanted them to give me a network extender for free. They said no, that I could buy one or get out of my contract early! They'd rather waive early termination fees and future service on 3 lines than give me a $200 piece of hardware to keep my business? WTF? My most recent attempt to contact them was through a Verizon Wireless Authorized Dealer almost 3 months ago with no response!

Signal fluctuates from 0 to 2 bars, calls drop, cut out, etc etc. I am in the Cheshire Ln area just off of 494 and 394. I know a few with Sprint in the area that do not have any issues.

Have to use a repeater at my house just to get reception inside. VZ slooked into it and says there is just enough service outside but can see why my phone will not work in my home... .Thanks Verizon Wife has Sprint and the reception is perfect.

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Horrible reception via Verizon on both these cell phones!

No reception from T-Mobile inside my house, very limited outside my house, very frustrating.

Called Verizon multiple times and they don't care.Wish my contract expires soon to switch to another provider.

My husband and I get almost no reception in our home, three years ago my friend had the same phone with Verizon and had fine reception, she also has issues in our house now too.

Big gaps in coverage and poor to no signal in our house! If we can get any signal we are sure to have the call dropped.

Very poor reception in this area. EV is 1 or 2 bars (out of 4). 1X (voice) is zero to 1 bar and calls drop or are choppy when they stay connected. Verizon knows about this area and are supposedly looking for a new tower site according to tech support. I hope its soon.

I used to live in Detroit, MI where my Verizon coverage was superior to all other carriers. I could make phone calls in elevators, basements of large buildings, and other places where other carriers couldn't get signal in. Even in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, my reception was amazing. I recently moved to Minneapolis and now I can't place calls from home or work with any consistency. My signal strength vacillates between 0 and 2 bars and calls drop frequently. Even when the call doesn't drop, the call gets choppy and electronically garbled. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the other carriers do any better in Minneapolis which makes me wonder if state / city bureaucracy is preventing carriers from putting up more towers or increasing the signal strength from their current towers. I don't particularly want to switch carriers anyway. I just want to be able to reliably place calls from home and from work.

Verizon has a lot of coverage but the quality of the calls aren't always the best. I had Verizon for years and got tired of calls breaking up when talking with someone. You could only hear parts of words so it kind of went like this... I real Like th way phon works I really don't the recept that well. So... Switched. This is very typical of a CDMA carrier and it's just due to the technology. Calls with great reception is crystal clear, however when you are in weaker areas the call breaks up as opposed to just dropping. I would much rather have the call drop than to try and decipher what someone is trying to tell me. This is extremely annoying. I travel throughout the state and upper midwest and have used all the major carriers in the area and have had the best luck with AT&T and T-Mobile even though they both have their limits. Verizon would kick butt if they would improve their existing weak reception areas but don't hold you breath on that one. CDMA is also weaker at penetrating buildings as the frequency wave is shorter and breaks up sooner. Yes I have a technical background in the wireless area so I am giving you fact. I wish companies would let you try a phone for a day without having before siging two years of your mobile life away. It would make clients much happier. Also... Don't test cell reception in the Winter months when the leaves are off the trees. Do it during the summer months during full bloom for a true test. I encourage you to ask your local sales consultant about this information. Most won't know but I have lived it. Good Luck with whomever you end up with!

I've had Verizon service for 4+ years with 2 different phones. During this time, the reception in my house and backyard is usually 1 bar. My phone is pretty much unusable at home. In other parts of the metro area, e.g., the reception is great. I'm researching now to figure out which phone service to switch to when my contract expires in November.

In the heart of minneapolis... .my new house has no reception

Only bad areas are in underground parking ramps, etc. Verizon has a good downtown coverage, but I'm not sure their high prices are worth their data plans.

I've had problems in the past, but Verizon's coverage is perfect now (April 2009).

also have a Broadband card which I rate poor. Verizon reports they are aware it is a weak area but no action.

this has been an ongoing problem for years in the nw mpls area and north side. Nokia phones helped as they never lost or failed to get a call.

Terrible reception that cuts in and out. My old Motorola phone from Verizon would at least hold a signal. I had the same problem with ATT as well.

Very poor reception and loss of calls. No surrounding structures, no hills, no surrounding foilage. There is about a 3 square mile area in the 55437 area that is bad. I have contacted Verizon and they mentioned to much terrain blockage. I tested T-Mobile and AT&T they had almost full bars. Verizon also stated no tower adjustments are in the near future.

I havent had this problem until June 6th then suddenly I have no reception indoors or out.

Reception is horrible---all calls are dropped within 1 minute. I live 6 blocks southwest of North Memorial Medical Center.

Pretty good overall. Richfield High School area is completely deadzone. At my house is good, even in the basement. Had AT and T for about a month and half the calls dropped inside my house or on the street. absolutely terrible.

The service seems so patchy. It is fine, but then drops the call. In south Mpls, it has not been very good.

my phone worked better in the state of Oregon than it does here. Funy, seeing that that map shows complete red for MN-- and not for Oregon.

Moved from29th Ave which was very bad indoors and out. Now much better. Outside is great and indoors at least I don't have to walk around too much to find a "good spot". Calls often drop on Portland Ave and 66th St. near Vets Park in Richfield. Overall, pretty good.

Have had Verizon for years and just in the last month have had terrible reception with many dropped calls in Uptown. Can't figure out what's changed as the phone has been with me for 6 months and previous phones were pretty dated yet still had good reception.

Have been with Verizon for over 6 years the reception in south mpls is poor as is the reception in West St. Paul where we lived prior. You would think it would be to their benifit to fix this known problem, it has to be time consuming for their service staff to field the complaints regarding this problem. What ever reason it has to be cusing problems for a great number of customers. Hey maybe when the leaves fall the reception will improve NOT!

My wife and I each have the XV6700 PocketPC and we must give you one bit of advice when considering this phone. DON'T DO IT! Reception is sub-poor most anywhere in the cities, but have to admit at the State Fair yesterday and we both had full bars. I have friends that have Verizon and their phones are getting coverage nicely... it is my opinion that this phone is a very poor design. It runs WindowsCE so that may be most of its problem. ;)

Almost no reception outside, no reception inside. When I go to a Verizon store and ask about new phones, they tell me reception is very good in all neighborhoods in 55448. When I tell them about my current problem they recommend I buy a signal booster for my house ($200 to 300). Great! With Verizon they want you to put up your own tower!

I live on the south side of NMMC, and coverage is DISMAL! 2 bars at best. What a joke. It's the same way at my place of employment in Plymouth too, BTW. I'm switching to T-Mobile as I type this.

I get horrible reception with my LG phone on Verizon. I'm really disappointed! I've gotten software updates, etc., but friends that also have Verizon have problems down in this area (South Minneapolis). It is also really bad around 35th and Cedar. Sprint is no better. I finally was able to get out of my Sprint contract several years ago. I couldn't even keep a call going long enough to make my full complaint to customer service. It kept getting dropped. I had to call Sprint from my land line. I think they got the gist of the problem. Ugh! I may try T-Mobile or a different carrier. Isn't it something that you could get better reception through the hills of Utah or through some rural area in Minnesota than in the city of Minneapolis?

Verizon has a cell site in Linden Hills so all of Lake Harriet and Lake Calhoun have great reception

Made the mistake of dropping the land-line phone; sorry I did. Terrible cell reception! Customer service has been superb thus far; it's only been a few months though. Got tired of H.S. drop-outs and people at Corporate office with T-Mobile telling me 30 different things; dropped them for Verizon... now who do I try?!

We used Verizon for years in Uptown Mpls. with great results--four or five bars all the time and rarely did we have a dropped call. Now that we've moved to Longfellow we can't make calls from home or, for that matter, anywhere within a 1 / 2 mile range from our house. After trying to convince us that the problem is with our phones (which are six months old) we finally had a manager at Verizon tell us this is a "known issue" and that they plan to install a new tower to serve this neighborhood "sometime within the next two years." In the meantime I think we'll be forced to get a landline or, perhaps, tying coffee cans together with string, which would provide better reception than we receive from Verizon.

awesome reception everywhere in western suburbs - only had problems way back inside home depot / cub foods; love the coverage! Even made phone calls on Mille Lacs NE area no problem!

In my home, most calls go directly to voicemail, but then I'm immediately alerted to a voicemail being received, but the phone doesn't ring. So I'm unhappy with Verizon. I've also tried T-Mobile and had similarly poor reception. I also have a Tracphone, and have surprisingly good reception.

Bad Reception. I get no reception in my home. If all the planets are allined just right, I can make a call from the corner of my living room but 8 / 10 times the call will be dropped. My spouse has Sprint and no issues with dropped calls in the home or elswwhere.

Mine and my wife's phones have horrible reception. I dont think it could get any worse, cant wait to switch carriers. For now we have to basically talk outside in order to not have a dropped call. And in sub zero temps, thats sucks balls.

Phone does not well in my house. Need to stand by a window and does not work at all in the basement.

One lousy bar in the house, sometimes 2 out in the alley. Verizon recommends 'updating the phone's software' which I've done twice and which resulted in squat for improvement. Impossible to have a conversation for more than 15 seconds, break-up is so bad. Sometimes turning the speaker phone option on helps, go figure. East side of Central is even worse, lost calls are the rule, not the exception.

Reception is medicore. Mine seems to do better than most others in the building though, which is nice. Verizon.

Absolutely ridiculous reception in a major metropolitan area. No bars whatsoever at my home address. My reason for owning a cell phone at all is medical, and it is obvious this company has no desire to improve on the "NETWORK" in our area, consequently my affiliation with Verizon will be curtailed. Verizon is aware of the poor coverage in this area and has offered to allow me to exit my unexpired contract with no cost to me.

Coverage is very poor in east Richfield, conversations often get garbled. Live in north Mpls, and coverage varies in my house. I actually got better call quality driving through South Dakota recently!

I get great reception, and even 2 bars in the elevators at the Fifth St.Towers.

I have Verizon service out of California and I get great reception in Minnesota.

I only get 1 bar inside my house and 2-3 bars outside. The calls are very garbled. Very unsatisfied at this location. I have been a Verizon customer for years. This is the worst location by far I have experienced.

Very spotty coverage is this area. Calls drop frequently. Indoors is poor at best.

New Verizon tower is up and running, great reception now!

How can one live in the most central, well-elevated location in Uptown Minneapolis, constantly update his phone and have such poor reception? I have tested phones from five manufacturers here and the only constant is the miserable reception Verizon insists on providing me and my wife. I have had calls dropped on me during job interviews over the phone, so you can just imagine when I see that guy say "can you hear me now", I don't take it very well.

Absolutely poor. Dropping, can't hear most of the time

Usually one bar, or two at most. Drops often. Need to change the carrier.

Signal varies along street. Had one dropped call and a few cutouts, but my wife's phone (Motorole E815) works better. Could not connect at all with my old Sprint service.

Have very good coverage in and around Medtronic buildings - even in the central parts of the buildings. Usually have 3-4 (out of 4) bars in my office area, 2-3 in the firness center. Have never not been able to connect.

I'm delighted with Verizon reception in my home. Infinitely better than my former carrier (Qwest)which had a total dead area here.

As of Dec. 19, my signal qualityon all three LG VX 5200 phones has fallen off a cliff. Zero or 1 bar, dropped calls. Verizon says that it is a "known" problem (too many users and too few towers) but that there are NO plans to fix it. I am ticked off as I just renewed my two year contract in Sept. after getting good service the previous two years.

always have reception except 36th between 169 and douglas dr. Really crappy I know T-Mobile gets good reception in there

VERY poor. Dropped calls, no service around house or in yard.

Verizon should put some equipment on the old Qwest site located on the Robbinsdale School District building!

Can't use phone in Cub Foods! Makes it hard to shop when you have questions.

Wish VZW would use the Qwest least on the water tower in downtown Robbinsdale!

Using the Motorola v60, 720 and sierra wireless aircard I had very poor useage of my phone. I have been using celluar since 1993 starting with US West cellular, moving to cellular one than back to US West cellular and finally with Verizon when they bought US West. found customer service to be very crappy, when I called US West people very insulting didn't change with verizon, sales and advertising lie. Verizon never changed it plus digital reception and transmission just plain BAD compared to analog. No power or battery life. I just use digital cause its cheaper. Finally dropped Verizon completely about 2 years ago. Went with t-mobile. still digital but been around longer. Have to see how it goes.

Absolutely horrible reception here. I switched from Sprint to Verizon. With Sprint I had great reception all the time but now with Verizon I continually get dropped calls and I've yet to make a call without words getting dropped here and there.

Most of Kenwood neighborhood has poor reception, phone does not even reliably ring when standing outside. Large area bounded by Mt Curve, Hennepin and Cedar Lake is bad (not sure how far south). Verizon has checked (very reluctantly) and reports their equipment if fine, there is nothing more they can do. We have 5 differnt cell phones, all have same reception. I'm looking for a repeater / booster for my house.

You would think that a major carrier like Verizon would have good signal the whole length of a major interstate like 494... sadly... no such luck. Verizon is turning out to be worse that most of the carriers I've dealt with. So dissapointed.

U of M Eastbank campus: - In the EE / CS building, I get no service. - In the Mechanical Engineering, I get 0-1 bars, where 0 bars is different than No Service.

Nobody can hear me now! Reception in my home is HORRIBLE! All of my calls drop. I end up not making long distance calls to my loved ones because I have to always use the land line even though I have tons of unused cellular minutes. It makes me so mad.

my phone always cuts out near here for no reason at all

Very poor call quality. Can usually make and receive calls but most of the time the call cuts in and out. So you usually hear about 1 / 3 of the word and left guessing what was actually said.

Verizon coverage is horrible in Minneapolis. 4 out of 5 calls are dropped and if they aren't dropped, the signal is so bad that a conversation is impossible. Similar to others that have posted, I called Verizon and they told me to buy a tri-mode phone. I think I'll be switching to T-Mobile...

Horrible coverage. I wanted to kidnap the Verizon nerd and have him test out this area and the rest of Minneapolis. "C__ you hea_ m_ now?" Nope!

Phone cuts out in my basement, signal upstairs can be marginal at best. I can see verizons tower down the road (like 3 blocks) its a 800mhz tower. any news of 1900 coverage soon? I think we need 1900 before we can even think of evdo

Very bad reception. 80% of calls go directly to VM and / or the connetion fails within 1-2 minutes. The phone is virtually worthless at this location. Reception is better in other twin city locations but it is still very poor. About half of my calls fail do to poor signal. Can you hear me now? NO! I think that I am going to try T-mobile.

Very poor reception outdoors, and none indoors in the general area. Phone rarely gets more than a bar of signal strength in bout a 1mi radius of here. Too bad it's where I live and work. Tried updating phone firmware monthly with *228, replaced the phone, and complained to Verizon many times about the quality of service - yet they insist everything is fine. I cancelled and went to Nextel after trying a friend's phone for a day.

Verizon reception in the greater NE Mpls 'Hood is pretty lousy. From about 24th Ave NE, up to 37th, and from Central to Stinson is really bad. The tower must be on the West side of that area, because the coverage is better on the west to almost non-existent on the east side. I usually drop a call at Stinson and 37th, and also at Johnson and St. Anthony Blvd.

Robbinsdale has very poor Verizon reception if you are east of Hwy. 81.

Generally poor reception in and around my home, as well as around my office in Wayzata. Unless I'm way out in the open, or on the freeway, my reception rarely goes above 1 bar.

The LG VX4500 phone does not get a signal in this area at all, I called Verizon and they told me the whole area of Bloomington is in their Digital Network. They told me I should buy a 3 mode phone at retail I told them no thanks. If you are in the area of W 89 ST in Bloomington MN 55437 be careful of Verizon!

Inside my building on the University of Minnesota East Bank campus, I get either little or no reception. It's a complete dead-zone. Other providers have good reception, however.

Just superb coverage within the Twin Citites metro. Dropped calls are very, very rare with this service in this area. I do have an issue with calls not ringing, and going directly into VM, but I think that is a common issue with my phone, not their network. My only network complaint is that VMs can sometimes not showup on my cell phone for up to 3 hours after they are left during peak usage times. Althought this has not happened to me within the last 6 months, they may have fixed this issue. Signal strength is 4 bars on first floor, 5 bars on second.

I get very strange reception in my house. It is usually fine in on the first floor but the strength really fluctuates. I just got this new phone though and I am hopeing it will be better than the last.

No, no, no. Very poor call quality. A lot of missed and dropped calls due to minimal reception.

Reception along this route is very poor with no signal inside the businesses along the route.

As a delivery working out of downtown Minneapolis, I couldn't ask for anything more. Works much better than expected inside most buildings, be they high-rises, 100 year-old warehouses, or the HCMC complex. As you get out of downtown, there are some weaker zones in some neighborhoods where a Verizon phone might not work reliably indoors, but outdoos, having a usable signal is a rule unbroken within Mpls city limits. (That can be expected with any provider - that's what trial periods are for.)

0 to 1 bar of reception. It fluculates a lot! Probably due to capacity and the cell shrinkage associated with it. Sprint, AT&T and especially T-Mobile cover the area nicely.

Verizon is by far the best coverage in this area. I had sprint before and there were a lot of dead spots.