Verizon stinks out here. We just dropped our service...

7 Sprint company phones have gone dead for several days at a time from our home base in Middlebury VT. Stuff happens, but what is disturbing is that the phones display several bars (a false indication of service), that 8 calls to Sprint Tech Service have failed to give an answer (wasted several hours on "software upgrades" which allegedly included 2 brand new phones).

I get 4 or 5 bars throughout the towns of Middlebury and East Middlebury - Cingular's reception improved greatly in 2005, and now has excellent coverage in this area.

No doubt Verizon has dominated the cell industry as far as Vermont goes. I work at a motel in Middlebury and I hear from many travelers how their cell has unreliable service. Not one of them had Verizon. I have no idea if Verizon is as great in any other state but here, no doubt!

Sprint has decent coverage in and around the heart of Middlebury, including most of campus (indoors it is less consistent, especially in the dungeons of many buildings). However, coverage decreases dramatically in the outlying areas-- from rt 116 outwards (from middlebury), there is little reliable service. Burlington gets OK service, but the route from Middlebury to Burlington is spotty.

not far out of middlebury