A year ago I could get data but no phone calls. They fixed the phone call issue after 3 months. But recently I can't get data at home but still get calls. Called V and was told my Droid was a model T but it works at other locations? Contracts work two ways - Verizon is now in default of the contract. I will send them a letter and give then some time to fix this but don't have much hope. If they fail I will fail to pay them.

I have to say, Verizon has the best signal strength. I have borrowed friend's phones and carried both around on my bike rides out on country roads. Almost every time, Verizon will have signal out in the country and the other phone will not. Only twice in spots down in a valley where I wasn't able to get Verizon signal. Just normal daily use, I never have trouble with dropped calls and signal strength is good, even in building at work near airport, and anywhere in my house. I am thinking of switching kids over to Virgin mobile because Verizon is so darn expensive. I'll keep Verizon for myself, because of my bike rides, but the kids just need good for every day use. I wonder if most people who post here only do so because they are unhappy. Just seems weird that almost all reviews are bad.

I get 0 to 1 bar of service inside and outside of my home. I'm in the process of switching providers.

I cannot get help from AT&T and we are stuck in this contract for the next year. WE moved here with this service

Reading all the bad reviews of AT&T has me perplexed. I occasionally have some problem with reception in the basement of my home, but otherwise always have a good signal. I have complete coverage pretty much anywhere in the Triangle. There are a few dead spots in the more isolated areas of Chatham and Orange counties as well, but these are pretty limited.

AT&T reminds me of the guy who use to hid his dingaling in the Junior High dressing room before gym. He was always talking loudly in front of the girls about how big he was, but the truth is AT&T has the worse coverage of any major company out there. That's a shame for Apple. Now Droid and Blackberries have caught up, so there's no reason to go with AT&T.

Ok so for students, people who actually know the Chapel Hill layout. Bolinwood Dr. as you some down Hillsborough St. (that huge hill) and towards the end of MLK as you are about to hit 40 and enter the country. Yea reception sucks. Carrboro... zero reception. T-Mobile gets good coverage when on Franklin St. and around campus so I guess that's good. Roomate has ATT and Verizon and they both get better reception around bolinwood than me. Dang it. This is with Nexus One btw.

Called Verizon to complain about poor service, and they asked me to call from a land line since they could only hear half of what I was telling them.

We switched from AT&T (no signal) to Verizon two years ago. For the first 6 months with Verizon, we had great signal in our neighborhood. For the past 18 months, very poor signal and must go outdoors to use cell phone. Verizon was going to send people out to test the signal, but of course I never heard anything from Verizon. BTW, my neighbors with iPhones still don't have signal with AT&T.

has worked for a year at my house and for some reason now it want call or receive at my house but I can go a few miles from the house and it will work. still got signal like always. got a network problem but they don't seem to care to fix it.

T Mobile is one of the worst companies to have around the surrounding Chapel Hill area, not only do they tell you you should be getting 4 bars in many areas (and this while you're on a buddy's cell phone because you can get any bars) they'll argue with you and This has to be the worst next to verison in our area. Even those piece of crap pay as you call phones get better reception than these companies, maybe if they spent some money on towers and fixing their reception problems instead of hiring celebrities and running ads every 6 seconds they might be able to compete. Switching to Alltel.

I pay $80 / mo for my plan and my phone does not work for the few miles around my house. I will sometimes see a bar or two, but it isn't enough for more than a few seconds of phone conversation. I can get out a text message here and there with repeated resend attempts, but sometimes they take hours to come through. I have limited coverage all over Chatham / Orange County except for the few clusters of "civilization" in downtown Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and Pittsboro. I strongly do-not-recommend AT&T unless you live and stay *in* town. I've complained and they've basically said "too bad." Terrible customer service.

I cx-ed my plan with T-Mobile so that my family and I could have a family plan. I moved from RI to Chapel Hill, NC and my reception is non-existent in or near my home. When I went to Verizon for the first time they told me to program the phone with *228. A wk later- no improvement. I went back. They told me to call a tech. line- the tech said they would get back to me in 7-10 business days. 'Mary' their representative told me: CELL PHONES ARE NOT MEANT TO REPLACE LANDLINES, AND THEY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE USED INDOORS. If you are able to use your cell phone indoors-- that's your good fortune. VERIZON will not be held accountable for calls made or lost indoors. I was told my another customer that there is little / no cell reception in the Verizon store on 15-501. Last Friday, a group of customers had to gather outside the Verizon store searching for a signal, when Verizon's representatives recommended that they call tech support.

Have never had a problem with AT&T (or Cingular, for that matter) around Chapel Hill. Am always using 3G data on my phone, with fast speeds in and around the area. Clear voice quality and rarely dropped calls let me know I picked the right provider, as I often see people on Sprint or Verizon losing calls around campus.

I cannot get reception at my home (Cates Farm neighborhood, McDougle School) in Chapel Hill. It is also very limited across all of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area. I have also experienced a lack of connection when driving I-85 South from Greensboro to Spartanburg, SC. This is a Major Interstate corridor, and I get no connection, not even a weak one ! Very disappointing.

No reception in house on Wolf's Trail. Could barely get a signal outside about a block away to check text messages, but couldn't make a call. Cancelled contract within a week.

Wonderful reception all throughout campus. I had 4-5 3G bars the entire time and when I switched to EDGE it maintained all 5 bars. Call quality was wonderful and I had no problems in any of the buildings. I was visiting UNC because I will be attending there next year. My parents who have VZW didn't have near the amount of quality service I did. On both phones they had only 1 bar and they said they were having trouble hearing anyone. It seems like anywhere in NC that I've been AT&T has out performed VZW

4-5 bars on 3g. All 5 with EDGE. No problem anywhere on campus and 3g is blazing fast. In Chapel Hill / NC in general AT&T is the only way to go.

Just recently started getting excellent reception from Alltel inside buildings. They must've put up a new tower as I previously got awful (if any reception) even outside in certain areas. I'm happy!

Alltel has horrrrible service throughout the majority of the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Most students who come with Alltel have to change... and the company is not doing anything about it soon. I have complained numerous times and they keep telling me they are putting up a tower--which the date gets farther and farther away every time I ask. Not sure about other service providers but I've been through two phones at UNC with Alltel and both have been horrible, inside and outside.