Carrier T-Mobile in the Dakota Creek area Blaine, WA., has very poor / no coverage -- no bars. Once 1 mile out of this area reception starts to improve. We are 7 minutes from Canadian border / Rogers Wireless, out of all the cell phones we have tried, the only phones that won't roam in our area are Blackberry's. Other phones can be set to manually select carrier, but would switch by themselves back to automatic carrier selection and begin roaming again. When at home (Dakota Creek, Blaine WA. area) I put my phone in a northern facing window (3G coverage--about 3-5 bars, Edge coverage 3-5 bars, and Gprs 1-2 bars)to get a good signal, then connect bluetooth headset and talk that way. Had previously tried a signal booster to get better reception at home, with no improvement.
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