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We have had the service for over 5 years and the reception at my home is marginal. I have reported to Verizon and changed phones with no improvements. I am looking for phones with better reception or a service provider that covers this area better.

impressively bad reception. Apparently there are no cell towers in all of the Highland neighborhood of St. Paul.

there is a huge dead spot right between lexington and Victoria, just south of county rd b

Phone service sucks and internet is horrible. Called Verizon numerous times and admitted the coverage was bad and told me I could cancel contract for free.

Can't take calls in the house... .must sit on the front step to get any reception at all and even then the sound quality is marginal. Making do right now as we're stuck in a 2 year contract but can't imagine we'll be making many phone calls this winter!

There are many calls that don't get through to me. People tell me later that it rang a few times and went into my voice mail. My phone never rang, and there is no indication of a missed call. Upon complaint, Verizon gave me a new phone, and the same thing is happening, so it must be the reception. The strange thing is that it has only been a serious problem in the past month.

Very poor. Hit or miss if upstairs, and NONE if downstairs.

The coverage is so poor that every 2-3 minutes my call gets disconnected.worst ever Customer services from Verizon and worst coverage... .experienced with them.

Only get full bars in a few places. This is a work phone and it's useless. I drive all over Ramsey county and rarely have even good reception.

No service inside our stucco house, limited service outside (1 or 2 bars) with Verizon. We had the same problem with T-Mobile a couple years back - don't know if T-Mobile has added more towers in the area now or not. ATT's 3G network works great in the house -- they must have a tower close by! Wish Verizon did!

I seem to get 4 bars almost everywhere I go in St. Paul, and no complaints about coverage on Selby / Chatsworth. Probably once a week I experience a dropped call. Generally pleased with Verizon's coverage and quality (it's just their prices that trouble me).

Verizon has horrible reception in the como area as well as the south boarder of Roseville near Laurpenter. The salesman admitted this is a problem spot for them. I have one spot in my home where I get decent reception. Other friends with new Verizon phones also have the same problem. Friends with Sprint and AT&T at least get bars in my home (even the basement).

Everywhere within a 1-3 mile radius of campus has awful reception, despite a cell tower 5 Manhattan blocks from the center of campus.

Most calls are eventually dropped while outdoors in this neighborhood, and there is almost no reception in my home.

Doesn't work in the house at all. Not very good driving either. TMobile not bad.

Calls received at my house lose signal within seconds, not good coverage around this area at all... .

Reception at house is only possible on second floor or in backyard above house. Reception at Langford park is virtually null.

If I Crouch by my back door, and tilt my head just right, I might be able to talk to you on my Verizon phone! Very Frustrating! Zip is suppose to be the New one assigned one year ago by the post office-55130

Even on my poor, outdated, obsolete phone I now get 5 bars of signal. New towers are so cool.

Reception is below average to poor in and around this area. Will be trying another phone model but am stuck with Verizon as it is a work phone.

FANTASTIC reception, even in a big old brick railroad warehouse building... Love the reception with Verizon.

good reception in major cities in general.inside and basement tend to drop calls but only occasionally. I find Verizon to be the best carrier for business cell plans so far with fewest drop calls-i think better phones help! i've tried Sprint to T-Mobile to cingular, none was comparable. Cingular worked great when I was in madison, wi, but was horrible to use as a business cell when I brought it back to mn. Still, Verizon could do better.

I can't use my phone at or around my house! Verizon service is terrible around here and I have went through 5 different phones! I get no service and most all of my family's houses as well,like on woodlane in Woodbury bt military rd, and west st paul!

We've had a Samsung a670 and an LG VX8300 fromVerizon, and I stll can't make a decent call fro mmy house. The Samsung had dropped calls on I-94! How does Verizon get away with this?

Verizon service: Used to have good reception till this Summer. Now I'm lucky to get 1 bar and often it drops the call if I actually get through. I remember when ATT caniblized their analog system when rolling out GPS. That's what made me switch to Verizon in the first place. I wonder what Verizon is doing to their system and how long this will last.

If I'm not in exactly the right spot it my home I get no reception. If I'm in a sweet spot I can get up to 4 bars but reception is still spotty - e.g., I often only hear every other word and people on the receiving end complain that I am dropping out. As an addendum-I also get NO reception to speak of on the East Bank at the U of Mn. so both places I am most likely to need my phone, NO, Verizon, I CAN'T hear you now! Can't wait to switch to another carrier. But the service from Verizon has been good in terms of getting a new phone when the first had a major problem and good phone service on billing questions.

Verizon works well for me everywhere but in my neighborhood. I can't use the phone at home at all.

I cannot use my cell phone at home or in my neighborhood. Calls get dropped, poor quality, etc. I have called Verizon several times about this, to no avail. The gods of Verizon engineering seem to be too lofty to lower themselves to talk to their customers, so when they say that they are always working to improve their network, well, Bulls__t about sums it up. To be fair to Verizon, AT&T / Cingular is no better in this area, so be warned. I have had several different phones over the years, and have had the same problem with all of them. I have only stayed with Verizon because in other areas, it is pretty good compared to others I have used. And the national coverage is excellent compared to any of the other networks. Plus, every time I upgrade my equipment in the hopes of an improvement, I get stuck with another two year contract. If you live in this area and want to use your cell phone at home, look elsewhere. And don't believe a word of that crap they try to pass off in their ads. Can you hear me now????

Hwy. 65 to County 10 along 35W to Hwy. 10 many garbled and dropped calls on Verizon and Sprint. Service usaully connects and then drops off in less than a minute.

Reception is poor - many dropped calls, sometimes only receive every third word. Haven't tried other carriers, but plan on trying external antenna. We have no landline.

Tried for two years - too cheap to pay penalty for leaving, now switching.

reception is basically crap here. oner or two bars and it drops calls sometimes.

The reception is good in most of the airport except the A and B concourses. I have had 4 different phone models and each one is terrible when leaving the C concourse and heading toward and in the A / B concourses, find a window a and pray for a bar or two.

I live and work in northern Eagan, and I have been very happy with Verizon Wireless's coverage. I get 5 bars of coverage at my home and workplace. My sole complaint about the coverage is while I get 4-5 bars and no dropped calls inside buildings at ground level and above, as soon as I go into a basement, I lose coverage, while my coworkers on Sprint and T-Mobile still have coverage.

Reception seems poor around hilly areas, maybe due to tower locations?

In an area 3 - 4 blocks around this major intersection of a major high end shopping street in an expensive neighborhood full of restored Victorian mansions, Verizon doesn't seem to care about providing decent coverage for its clients. The calls are dropped; I can't hear others; and they can't hear me. Ridiculous.

No coverage at this intersection. My office is located here. My coworkers with Verizon have no coverage either. I contacted Verizon. They said we were out of luck. I switched to T-Mobile as did many of my coworkers. T-Mobile works perfectly.

Ever since going to Verizon Wireless + Motorola T720 I've never got a drop call within the metro area. With the antenna fully extended I can get 5 bars all the time. Even in my basement! It has even replaced my land line. I disconnected my Qwest line and completely embraced this wireless line.

Broken reception outside, 1 bar inside. Reception is so bad in the house that we can't use any of the 4 phones we have in the family. We have to walk outside into the front yard to get enough reception to carry on a conversation. It's not as good in the back yard. ??? Winter is coming...

The Verizon service is just a joke. They claim their coverage is 85% of the U.S., but that doesn't mean the quality is there. I frequently drop calls and or hear about every other word someone says as the signal is so poor. I have called many times to explain the problems but they don't care. They claim there are towers all around but unless you are in direct visual contact with the tower use a land line. I am on my third phone now so that eliminates it being an equipment problem. I have a friend who has the same issues I do and he live in Mpls. The other day I had a contractor come over to do some work this past weekend and he has Verizon too and just hates it. He claims he misses calls, drops calls, and just plain can't hear the conversation completely due to the poor reception. I am looking into filing a complaint with some government agencies as I believe they are misleading people. Trust me when Verizon says "Your Problem is there Problem", --- THEY LIED -- I am still waiting for a call back from two days ago. I just got back from a camping trip with a friend who has a Cingular phone. We went from Mpls, to Rapid City, SD, to Mt. Rushmore, into the Big Horn Mountains of WY and Tensleep Canyon, across WY to Yellowstone and then down through the Grand Tetons. We then came back through Jackson WY, all across the state to Cheyenne WY, down to Fort Collins CO, up into Estes Park and the Rocky Mt. National Park. Then drove all across Nebraska into Des Moines, IA and then North on I-35 to Mpls. Let's just say I was embarrassed to have a Verizon Phone

I've never had a problem with reception in the Twin Cities metro area with Verizon. Usually I get 4-5 bars of reception.

Worst service ever. Dropped calls constantly and the billing system was a joke to say the least. I was on the phone for an hour every month trying to fix my bill. You need to watch you're bill or they will get a few extra dollars from you every time. They're large coverage area is very deceiving.

West St. Paul is horrible. There are dead spots everywhere.

As soon as you enter the Mall there is no service untill you get 5 feet in front of the Verizon Kiosk then boom great service, but step away and no service :(. No service inside my house, too many dead spots.