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i get reception everywhere, but there is lots of place I get only 1 bar while T-Mobile (SDA) gets full bars. with T-Mobile I get 0 bars at home while Verizon I get 3 bars.
If near an east window may work for a minute or two until call is dropped. If near a west window picks up Poulsbo or Silverdale tower and drops sooner. My daughter has Cingular and it works all over the house. Will switch when contract is up.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't! Lots of dropped calls, or very poor voice quality! Reviewing my detailed calling records from Verizon shows that calls do NOT originate here in West Seattle, but rather in Vashon Island, Port Orchard, Silverdale and Pouslbo - 15+ miles away across the Puget Sound! Verizon customer service offered little assistance other than to say that it shows on their computer that coverage here should be good... yeah, lots of cell sites, but they're all BELOW this neighborhood. Its not about distance to the cell sites, but coverage from those sites! NO LOCAL COVERAGE at the top of the hill.
Receeption and transmission is not what it should be for the money. RTransmission breaks up all of the time as well as recption. Have to keep moving around the house to find a workable location. For over $40 a month it's crap.
We have awful service with Sprint. Dropped calls, missed calls, calls not showing up on screen, etc. I have been complaining for two months and they have only offered to supply us with new phones (which requires signing a new 2yr contract.) Horrible cellphone service, horrible customer service.
T Mobile has great coverage in the Admiral area but I'm in a small 4 block wide deadspot where 0-1 bars are the best I can get. The deadspot is so small it doesn't show up on their coverage map so they're reluctant to let me out of my contract but I'm working on that via the BBB.
I have no reception in the house (due to its construction, I'm sure) and in the driveway on a good day my calls don't get dropped. By the way, I'm on a hill facing the sound, and have only a mildly obstructed view. I'd rather have a landline than a cell tower in the neighborhood any day.
Calls are dropped ALL THE TIME. I have never held a conversation for more than 90 seconds with Verizon in the Blue Ridge / North Beach area. The main issue appears to be that as a result of poor coverage, towers that pick up (and subsequently drop) my calls are located on Hood Canal, usually in Kingston. Due to the distance over Puget Sound, calls drop. I recommend switching to another carrier if you live in this area, or get a home phone line for calls at your residence. When I contacted Verizon, they informed me they have no plans to add towers in this area in the foreseeable future. One side note, for my phone at least, is that when you look at the number of bars it will read 3-4, but when you place a call the bars instantly fall to nothing and the call is then dropped. Adverse weather appears to affect the ability to reach the towers in Kingston... bottom line, don't use Verizon anywhere in this area!
You're okay when docked on either side of the water - but in crossing you get nothing. I was really disappointed. It's a flat 7 mile crossing - but you're never actually far from a tower somewhere. I believe we actually have line of sight of some cell tower but no reception during crossing. And just to whine... I can't believe how bad the WSF Wi-Fi is. God-awful... and then they started asking us to pay for it? Who would when it's that bad?
