Spotty in the house, outside the house -- doesn't matter where I go.

I recently moved to Durham and brought my Verizon cell with me. I live a few blocks from the Duke campus and reception in my house is awful. I get maybe 2 bars max and very often I get no service, I updated my roaming list (*228) thinking it would help but it didn't do anything. Call drops / bad reception are frequent and several times I have looked at my phone and there has been no service. I haven't had much opportunity to test it in the surrounding area, but as I am not planning on getting a landline it is important to me that it works in / around my house, I am planning on switching to Alltel as they seem to be a major carrier in the area and have better rates than the other available carriers. Verizon has announced that they will be buying Alltel soon - I can only hope that this will strengthen their service in the area and in the meantime I can lock in Alltel's good prices (at least until my contract is up).

I moved into the area in 2005 and had Verizon at the time. I rarely had coverage, so I switched to Alltel. Until about two months ago I had excellent coverage. Alltel can only say I should have excellent coverage at my location. Verizon said the same thing before I left.

Sometimes it's fine, but all too often, calls go straight to voicemail or break up every other sentence. It's bad enough that I plan to change providers.

After years of good reception, my phone no longer functions in Trinity Park on the Sprint network. The phone has two to four bars, but calls will not connect and none will come in either. All the Sprint reps I have called say their network is fine. My wife and I both have the same problem with different phones, so we know that it isn't our equipment. I have to set my phone on roam to make or receive a call anywhere around my house. When I drive over to 147, about 1 mile, it works perfectly.

I get reception anywhre... ...

Great reception in Trinity Park

I frequently cannot get reception in Trinity Pary area. My statement is valid because this has been going on for months.

Weak and inconsistent signal strength inside my house in the Bradbury subdivision off of Lumley Rd. One minute it is fine and next minute, call is dropped. Cannot depend on the phone for work. Also poor signal strength in Whole Foods on Broad St. in Durham, and in Earth Fare and Target in the Brier Creek shopping center. I do not recommend AT&T!

I only get 1 bar most of the time and this is outside only. Calls immediatly drop as soon as I pull into my driveway. I spoke with Verizon and they said they only provide limited service in this area and that they have no plans to put up any towers nearby anytime soon. Thinking of switching to Sprint, but I want to be sure that the service would be an improvement.

I've been told on several occasions by AT&T that they were putting more towers in the area to improve coverage of the Grove Park Subdivision. It's been over a year and the service is poor from most streets in the neighborhood and usually there is NO reception inside my home.

Very poor reception ever since Cingular ceased using Suncom's Towers (late 2006). Cannot make calls from inside of buildings (houses), and half the time, calling from out of doors is a futile task. Cingular (AT&T) claims that a new tower will be open for service on Sept 1 that will correct this issue for the Grove Park area of Durham.

Reception inside house is minimal with frequent dropped calls. Signal outside is a bit better. 1 / 2 mile in any direction and it is at 4 bars.

The entire neighborhood has very bad reception with Sprint.

Cingular sucks in East Durham. Trying right now to figure out who to switch to..

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.

can't really make a call. it sucks.

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.

Had TDMA Service with AT&T Wireless which was sold to Suncom which was sold back to Cingular. With AT&T Wirless and Suncom I had strong Digital service in this area. With Cingular I had digital service up until 11 / 29 / 2005 when Cingular claims to have done "network consolidation". Ever since the consolidation, I have ZERO digital service from Cingular using my TDMA phone. Cingular says I will have to switch to GSM to get digital service again. I chose a Tri-mode phone because the service worked even in remote areas where the phone switched to modes "Extended area" and "Roam". Now all I get from Cingular is "Extended area" and "Roam" service. Cingular will definitely loose my business unless this is fixed.