Very poor to terrible reception. Fairfax planning commission approved plans for a new tower in Burke back in January 2011, but I cannot find any updates about it. Probably got squashed by some hippie neighbors.

Poor might be too generous to describe the coverage in Burke.

Godawful Verizon coverage in Burke Centre area, outside is great. Its like a black hole for cell coverage.

With Verizon in Burke, it is always a crap shoot. I think it has something to do with sun spots. Once you leave Burke the coverage is normally good.

I had terrible reception on my old Treo 650, but when I bought a iPhone 3G a few months back and now have usually have full strength inside the house and outside. I'm not sure if AT&T added additional towers or it is the change in phones, but I'm much happier with my service than before. I almost always have all bars full.

DO NOT. I repeat, DO NOT get Verizon Wireless if you live in, or around, Burke Centre. You will drop almost all of your calls - if you are able to make them in the first place. I can't even send a text message from my phone on most days from my house. I hope it is not Burke Centre Conservancy that is preventing towers from the area.

My phone never gets any reception and it doesn't look like Verizon is going to do anything about it. I thought it was only Verizon that had reception problems however, it seems like everyone is affected from it. It's just pathetic, absolutely pathetic.

Horrible reception in my townhouse. I have to go to a specific corner of my third floor to even get reception. Calls drop about 90% of the time. Hard to believe there is such horrible reception in such a highly populated area! Frustrating!

Mostly get 3 bars, okay reception, even inside the house (lucky me!). Get zero reception if I go outside the immediate neighborhood complex like across the street at McDonalds or Safeway area.

Reception is always 2 bars or less. Calls are dropped constantly. Sometimes reception is better outside, but not always. This is ridiculous.

Only worked part time in house. Poor area for any company apparently--any time of day or night you can find folks in front of their houses TRYING to get a call completed.

Reception fades in and out. Sometimes I can get 3 bars but most offen 1 to none. When setting the phone setting to roaming only (Verizon signals) I can get 2 to 3 bars on average. EV-DO seems to connect at pretty decent speeds but that also depends on how many bars of course but I do connect at EV-DO vers. x1.

Just moved to Burke Centre -- shocked to find that Verizon has shoddy coverage at best. Verizon has always had superior coverage wherever I've lived (Columbus, Boston, Arlington, Alexandria, and rural Ohio), but we've been getting static and dropped calls so far in Burke. A friend got perfect coverage with Sprint, but I'm not sure I'm ready to switch without testing out various carriers...

I can see a cell tower from my back deck; however, my reception is rarely above 3 bars, and frequently drops out entirely, within several steps. I am EXTREMELY disappointed with this service and it is an ongoing problem for the past 8 years with Sprint.

I have to stand in the street in front of my house on Stonecutter to, maybe, get a phone call that lasts at best, 5 minutes, 10 if you're lucky. Absolutely no service in or behind the house. AWFUL. Verizon KNOWs this area is dead, but the still insist on sending out a technician (I've yet to see) to "check".

No reception - Intersection of Rolling Rd and Braddock Rd. Barely one bar - Turn right onto Burke Lake Rd.from Rolling road. 100 yard before getting off Little Turn Pike River exit from 495 North toward Tyson Corner

One bar outside house. Must stand on one foot a stick finger in your nose and you may get reception in the house.

Calls dropped in back part of house. Calls occasionally dropped in front part of house. Reception best and calls not dropped outside in front of house. Missed messages. After reading comments, most of Burke seems to have below average to poor reception and dropped calls. Carriers don't seem to be the issue, though I have considered dropping Verizon and switching to T-Mobile, Cingular, or Cellular One. I'm surprised the carriers haven't been able to fix the problem. The problem must be other than the towers.

There's a cell tower within site of my home, yet I can't get calls out from inside my house in Burke. There will be one bar, then no bars, then three bars, then none again. Us Burke residents must live inside of some weird magnetic field!

Absolutely no GSM signal at all. Every call drops when driving through this dead zone.