Excellent coverage in this location, 4 bars 1X and 3G. Big improvement over what I had in Carrboro.

I've been a Verizon customer for a year and don't have any complaints. Until a year ago I had a Sidekick / Hiptop with Suncom, and it didn't work at all in my house (however, it worked fine elsewhere). Verizon seems to work well throughout the Triangle for me, and I even had full voice and data reception near Kerr Lake where family members were having trouble with other services. I rated it as 4 bars even though inside my house it will vary between 3 and 5 bars, but I have never had trouble placing a call or using data features and call quality is always excellent. I don't recall ever having a call drop. I also have a pay-as-you-go phone with Alltel and the coverage / reception seems about as good as with Verizon. Friends and family who have AT&T / Cingular and Sprint complain constantly about poor reception.

Outdoors in the woods, I get 5 bars. Service works great. Inside in my basement apartment I get 3 or 4 bars with excellent call quality. Fantastic service overall.

I tried Alltel because of the My Circle deal so I could call back home for free since I'm here at school and just switched from Verizon. I don't hear nasty comments about either like I do about Cingular here. But Alltel seems to have a better signal all around the campus. Maybe they have an extra tower or something or maybe it was the phone I had. But I can make call inside anywhere in a couple buildings I had to walk outside with Verizon. Around the city, Alltel also does a great job also and after trying it out for a couple months, there's not a single place in the entire Triangle where I've noticed my phone dropping below 3 bars and it's usually on 5. That was a big surprise because Verizon would tend to have a lot of problems outside the metro area and American Village was bad too along with several other places that were spotty. But the call quality seems better on Alltel too. But I would recommend Alltel for Durham. I'm very happy with their service here.

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Always excellent reception. I've heard that subscribers of other networks aren't nearly as satisfied as we are. Verizon - keep up the good work!

I get virtually perfect reception from Verizon all over Durham. I can't remember the last time I couldn't get a signal, even on the ground floor of large concrete and steel structures. I used to have AT&T and got rid of it because service was extremely spotty. I had to go outside my work building and stand in a particular spot on the back steps to get two bars. Prior to AT&T, I had sprint, which was almost as bad. Get Verizon if you are at Duke. It's worth it.

Older model Motorola phone used almost exclusively for voice and and some text with a prepaid plan. Had Alltel prepaid plan before Verizon took over as the current provider. Wish I had Alltel back because verizon's prepaid plan choices are more expensive than the Alltel prepaid plan choices. Consistently get good reception with Verizon using this cdma phone. voice reception is clear and I consistently get 4 bars of reception indoors. Would consider switching to another provider and a smartphone if any carriers provided good / average signal and reasonable prices in this area. Until that happens, I will stick with the basic phone and verizon's cdma service.

Sprint put up a brand new tower very close to my house (I live about 3 miles from Southpoint Mall). The reception has been great on our phones. Scott King Rd traditionally has very poor reception because of the trees and the curves, but I have no problem now. We used to have Cingular / AT&T and had horrible reception in the area, and even in the house. Sprint so far has been MUCH improved! I would be careful looking at old reviews for Sprint in this area since the new tower seems to have improved reception greatly!

Great reception in Trinity Park

Entirely usable indoors at my house, including Vision features.

When it gets stormy out I will occasionally drop to two bars for about 5 minutes. If I leave the phone in one place it'll jump back up to 4 and phone conversations are crystal clear.

Good reception inside our building. Rarely have a dropped call, occasional static / choppiness but for the most part the service is good. Sprint customer service has been awful in the past, but seems to be improving - slightly.

I get very good reception just about everywhere in the Triangle, including at work in RTP. My neighborhood, Fairfield, is low-lying and tends to have problems with all providers, but Verizon is better than others. I used to have AT&T and before that Sprint, and had poor reception in many places around the Triangle with both of them. My husband still has AT&T, and gets terrible reception from our neighborhood all the way over to Southpoint Mall.

Reception isn't good at all in buildings on campus. I'm wondering if it's the phone. Wish Alltel offered a wider selection of phones. Overall I'm very happy with the reception but I haven't tried any other providers in this area with which to compare. the only other suggested provider would be Verizon. It would be a benefit for me to switch if I could still use the phone in the Duke Med Center. I'm not sure any service provider can do that though.

Generally great reception. Sometimes it takes a minute to get a signal. Call drops are rare. Overall, Verizon's network quality is great.

Good on Gleen rd (intersection of Glenn School rd / ) but can be spotty as I head toward Hamlin rd area. Good in my home. No problems there. On old Oxford Hwy. my reception cuts out and drops calls as I turn onto Snow Hill Rd. Then picks back up on Latta Rd. )Northern Durham

Most places I get reasonable reception. Poor at home but perfect after they sent me a free Air-rave after complaining.

Good coverage, much better than any other provider I've tried here (including AT&T, Virgin, and Verizon). Works inside my house fairly consistently. Not perfect, but certainly adequate.

Reception nearby is usually 3 bars outside with 1-2 bars inside. The service is acceptable between here and Hillsborough, NC with only a few localized spots of service drop.