I switched from T-Mobile to Sprint for the great packages, however the reception I get on the fancy smartphone I got with Sprint does not stack up to the reception I got with my clunky old Nokia with Tmobile. I guess this is the way things are built nowadays?

I've never had problems with Verizon reception before, and have lived all over the east coast and in WI. Here I get constant complaints that I can't be heard, and calls drop randomly all the time. This happens mainly inside my apartment but it is noticeably fuzzier as I go from Durham (where I work) to Chapel Hill, and then even worse as I get to Carrboro.

I just moved from Ohio to Chapel Hill, I never had any issues with service with Verizon before. Now that I have moved my Driod, is just a large paper wieght. I can no longer use GPS, or a majority of my online apps. I will try and contact Verizon and let them know about the situation. But from what I am reading this will not help.

Reception comes and goes. Verizon tells me they only guarantee reception outside my house. Outside I get it about 75%. Inside about 50% of time. Why the shortage of towers here?

No Sprint service at all here. Coverage map says there's excellent service, but Sprint tech support admits it's roaming in all of Carrboro. I have to drive into Chapel Hill to make a call. This is ridiculous... The people at the Sprint store told me the town won't allow towers to be built here. I think it's time for Carrboro to step into the modern era of communication and put the hippy BS behind them.

Sprint service roams throughout Chapel Hill and Carrboro. I get no reception at my house and am forced to pay the extra $40-50 per month for the Unlimited Plan which covers roaming mobile-to-mobile calls. The people at the Sprint store on Mt. Moriah will tell you that there's excellent coverage according to the map, but that's not true. I called tech support and they told me that Sprint is roaming in most of the area...

I moved from Chapel Hill and I had decent coverage there but I can barely get a call out in Carrboro. In order to have a decent conversation I have to call people while I am in Chapel Hill. Whenever, I am in Carrboro, my phone has 1, maybe 2 bars. And it is always searching for Verizon Towers.

Nearly functionless. Little or no cell reception. So bad I bought into SPRINT (cheap phone, minimal service). It's not that much better! Is Alltel really the solution?

Most calls dropped unless you find a sweet spot. Texts go through about 80% of the time though.

I get terrible reception inside my apartment. I have to stand outside to talk on the phone or I drop calls after a minute of talk time or so.

For the love of god don't even consider Verizon here. ANYWHERE around here. Moved from NY (great coverage) and kept verizon. Typically I get 1 to 2 bars of service anywhere: more often one. Sometimes I will have no service at all. The only place you get service is Durham or Cary near the malls because they put up a cheesy tower to make you think Verizon gets good coverage when they sell you the phone. Dr.a few miles away and coverage drops off to nothing. Very hard to understand anyone. (Especially frustrating when trying to do anything from order pizza to call tech support) But just HOW frustrating is it? I'm currently saving to pony up the money for early termination of my contract and investing in a new company, if that'a nay help.

Once again, Verizon is awful here. What are we to do?

Always dropping calls, even from parking lot.

I get clear calls with no interruptions or drops.

The signal is excellent in my apartment and around Carrboro and Chapel Hill areas. Virgin Mobile is the top prepaid wireless service according to JD Power and Associates.

0-1 bar for Verizon but 4 or 5 bars for Extended Network (Alltell). The problem is that the phone is always trying to search for a Verizon signal. I have to turn my phone off and on till it goes into Extended Network to make a clear call. Verizon works everywhere around town but my black hole of a complex. AT&T doesn't work either. Sprint slightly better.

Have had excellent reception all over Chapel Hill / Carrboro, particularly on campus and in apartments at west end of Franklin St. + on Bolinwood Dr.

I have no problem with my phone in Carrboro, or Durham. Only spot I have trouble with is on Franklin St.in Chapel Hill some blocks have bad reception

No cell reception, by Verizon's own admission it is a dead spot. My neighbor has Alltel with great reception inside her townhouse at all times. If Alltel can provide service, why can't Verizon??

OK folks, Verizon works great everywhere in NC and a lot of places your friends phones won't - like in remote places in the mountains, but the "kind" folks at Verizon can't get it together to make their phones work well in Chapel Hill. Go figure. Mine mostly drops calls Anywhere along or north of Estes drive and East of old 86 including all along new 86 in Chapel Hill and the entire population center of Weaver Dairy, Chapel hill North, and the lakeshore drive / estes hills neighborhood. Starts to pick up a signal again when you get to Estes and Franklin intersection. And yes kind folks, I do update (star 228) the phone with the towers as you keep suggesting. Works fine South of town and everywhere else (except at the intersection of smith level and 15-501 in Carrboro). Works in all the mountains and valleys around Asheville. Never drops calls anywhere else.