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Old Church Rd.has very poor service. I went to Verizon to use a hot spot to see if I could somehow find a way to get internet. Made a connection but speed was 65.0 thats dial up speed. Customer service told me thats the best in that area. Seams odd to me that my tax dollars were spent almost 2 years ago for the county to build a tower on Old Church Rd.and that they have not been able to get any cellular companies to lease a spot on it. I look at that tower everyday as I drive by and its empty. When they were building it I was able to find who to talk with at the county offices and they said it was for safety and secuity in the area and that cellular companies would get use. Never happened! Come on Hanover County push on this to help growth in that area. Trying to run a business from my house and have to use slow Hughes Net and no cellular service.

I work from home, use VPN and live in Old Church. I had to use Verizon Mobile Broadband - it was my only choice.. Either that or start going back into the office. Our signal is coming from King William since the tower on Spring Run is too short to do us any good so I had to buy a signal amplifier and antenna to boost my data reception. I consider my cell reception a lost cause. Old Church is surrouned by decent cell reception and high speed internet access but we're in the 'land that time forgot'.

Verizon offers incredible reception for me anywhere I go. BUT I want an Iphone and AT&T doesn't work at all in this area with very sporadic reception. Customer service at Verizon isn't all it's cracked up to be, but it's tolerable. I do so wish a tower would be erected near my home so I can use another service provider other than Verizon. But, if it's excellent reception coverage you want in the New Ashcake area near the rescue squad, then Verizon's the one!

Verizon works outside or if you have a good phone. An external yagi antenna and / or booster can get 2-3 bars and will get high speed net access. Verizon is really the only game in town in Hidden Lake. When inside, I hook my phone to a Yagi antenna and tether for internet access which is better than any of the alternatives as Satellite is horrible and dial up is the only other option. Tops out around 100k d / l speeds and low latency.

Most people with different cell carriers have to stand in the street to talk on their phones.

Reception gets worse the farther in the subdivision you go. Can hold a conversation up 95 onto sliding hill but once you make the turn... .goodbye. At home, nothing on the first floor, some success outside and 2nd floor. Really didn't have these issues until 1 / 1 / 09 - "maybe tower contract ran out"? Battery consumption has jumped as well.

Don't get any reception in my house. Can sometimes go on the second floor and talk but get alot of dropped calls. Outside seems better but still not reliable. Can get reliable coverage all down Old Church Rd.an into Christian Ridge. Just seems to loose it as soon as I pull in the yard.

This is becoming a heavily populated area, but my calls get dropped all the time. Why can't we get another Verizon tower out here? It's ridiculous. I get great coverage everywhere else arround the Greater Richmond area, but not at my house where I have a home office.

Verizon works better in Old Mechanicsville than it does on the other side of 301. I can get perfectly talkable reception indoors (but not always digital service) and as I drive around Mechanicsville, I've never really lost a call. Atlee Station and Sliding Hill area has poor signal and calls usually have to be made outside.

Had Alltel previously and could only receive occasional coverage in driveway, never inside house. Inside signal with Verizon was only fair until last month or so. Inside signal now consistent 3 bars. New tower I guess.

Most of the time you have to go outside on the deck and stand on one leg, but have gotten reception inside.

I had a couple of square inches where it worked but lost it! Sprint had failed previously. I suggest anyone in this area not contract with anyone that does not come out and prove reception before signing.

Much of Hanover County, some just 10 miles from Richmond!