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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?

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.

Calls are constantly dropped inside my apartment which is on the 2nd floor. Sometimes no reception at all with Verizon. Friends with Cingular seem to get reception.

Verizon is a very good service- except South of hillsborough, north of carrboro. Impossible to make and complete cell call along Old Rt 86. Two bars