Verizon
I'm not sure what is going on..but in three months the service has dropped off incredibly. dropped calls are now common for me in my house.
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Use to have great coverage in my home and in my neighborhood. In the last 4 weeks something happen. No bars, maybe one bar now. Call Lost error msg while on phone. I think Verizon can't handle the IPHONE business. Very disappointed. I've been with VZW for over 10years (before all mergers). Now shopping for other carriers. For the money-i except and use to receive more.
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AT&T iphone 3GS reception on Boston College main campus is terrible. It often can't find any cellular signal at all. I've sometimes used Skype on the internet instead of using the cell phone minutes I pay for, because of the reception. In coolidge corner area, calls drop constantly. Anytime phone call over ~5 minutes and it's pretty usual that the call will drop.
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3G coverage overall is very poor in singal strength. 4G HSPA+ is nonexistent and EDGE although higher signal strength, it is still extremely slow for data and voice call quality is very poor. Although AT&T might seem to be the best option for a cellphone company in the Boston College Chestnut Hill campus including dorms and other buildings, reception is not of great quality and there are frequent dropped calls and fails, at least one or two per call. On BC's Newton Campus, Stuart Hall Dining Hall, AT&T has no coverage at all and in dorms, coverage is very spotty. On Newton, service is definitely very poor and at times, nonexistent. AT&T is great in many parts of the city of Boston and Verizon Wireless is a great alternative. T-Mobile and Sprint are not good alternatives to use at Boston College; only Verizon and AT&T.
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Service used to be just fine. Now, you can't even get a call in the house. Have to run outside to the end of the sidewalk to make sure you can hear the person. Absolutely ridiculous. Was told there are several Verizon towers within a mile and a half of the house. No help at all.
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Says NO SERVICE in the house where I just rented a room. Event when I try to connect my iphone through WIFI, I cannot make a call or receive calls. I am shocked that an affluent and educated town 7 miles from Boston has no reception for Apple smartphone using ATT! This is serious for me, as I am a consultant and use my phone and computer at the same time. I will have to get Skype when my ATT contract ends June 25th. No more smartphone!
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Just want to update my post of March 10th.In that post I was wondering if anyone had experienced an improvement, in AT&T signal stength, as mine seemed to have, greatly improved and I was rarely dropping calls I just want to report,that my AT&T is back, to dropping calls again.I guess they didn't put up a new antenna.
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I have great signal outside of some of the buildings, but once you step inside its like a dead zone. Online on the coverage map it says I would have good coverage but I barely get a bar of 3g in the cafeteria even near the windows and sometimes its one bar of Edge overall spotty coverage in here. The other buildings are terrible, only edge and the wifi on my phone keeps saying UMB network not in range but my laptop says full bars for the wifi network around the other buildings. Wheatley is terrible, my signal fluctuates from 3 bars of 3g to Edge then to no signal whatsoever. Science center has to be the worst phone fluctuates from 1 to 3 bars of edge and rejects all text messages I try to send and won't even put a call through. No signal inside the auditorium / lecture hall. McCormack is also terrible signal is spotty and sometimes non existent. Getting very frustrated with tmobile's signal at UMB. Not sure if my vibrant has a warped antenna. Friend has AT&T iphone 3g and gets 3g everywhere. 5 bars in science center lecture hall and 5 bars in McCormack, while I continue to have no bars.
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Rarely can I get service in my house and only periodically if I go outside. If you look at tower maps of Quincy there are very few towers. Quincy is one of the ten largest cities in MA so you'd think a service provider would seek out the potential business opportunity. I'd love to dump my land line but can't because wireless serivce is so bad.
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I was getting ready to drop AT&T back in December,due to all the calls my phone had been dropping.Ready to eat the contract..I had the same problem with Verizon,so I am aware, that I am in a reception, dead zone.Thought I might try T-Mobile,because I am close, to their new antenna. For the last month my AT&T reception has been good, and I haven't been dropping calls. I'm wondering if AT&T has put up a tower nearby.Has anyone,in Quincy, experienced a recent improved AT&T signal?
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