Verizon

Daly City is filled with dead zones, especially with GSM phones. I switched to Verizon with hopes to actually eliminate my chances of running into dead zones, and CDMA coverage in the U.S. is far superior than GSM for now. But Daly City seems to be a cell phone dead zone overall.
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On Highway 280 South, heading towards the junction in San Bruno to get to 101 South, you almost ALWAYS drop calls. Whether it be GSM, CDMA or TDMA. Daly City area is a terrible digital area.
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Reception on T-Mobile is spotty in general, but it hardly works up here on the hill. AT&T (TDMA), Verizon and Cingular GSM work fine up here, and even Sprint had better reception than this. I have to go outside and stand in the backyard in order to make calls. I'm never getting another T-Mobile phone, that's for sure.
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Spotty coverage on Highway 280 in San Bruno area. Traveling northbound, calls tend to drop or fade out until you reach Daly City / Serramonte Blvd. Southbound coverage hit or miss, sometimes very good, other times calls will drop out.
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There is one spot in my hallway where I sometimes get patchy reception, but no where else. Going outside doesn't help at all either. I used to have a Nokia with AT&T and got no reception at all.
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Hey - where most phones fail, at least I get 3 bars where other phones fail.
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poor and rude customer service. once they extended my contract without my notification. my reception has been awful for the past month, even when switching phones. never again will i sell my soul to AT&T in the form of written contract.
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Verizon Wireless coverage is generally good when travelling on the 101 freeway between San Mateo and 237, and when travelling on 237 from 101 to 880. There is one spot on 101 in Redwood City that the call would drop. When travelling on the San Mateo bridge (highway 92), I would get 1 or 2 drop calls. In Foster City, traveling on Edgewater between E. Hillsdale and Baffin, there is one spot that the call would drop. Generally when I'm walking within a building, I get good reception without any dropped calls. I was in Albany, Foster City, San Mateo, Palo Alto, North San Jose and Milpitas. inside Hillsdale mall in San Mateo, I get good reception. With Verison, I had a compact, heavy Sony cell phone with better reception than the Motorola Startac.
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Sprint PCS coverage is generally good when travelling on the 101 freeway between San Mateo and 237, and when travelling on 237 from 101 to 880. There is one spot on 101 in Redwood City that the call would drop. When travelling on the San Mateo bridge (highway 92), I would get 1 or 2 drop calls. In Foster City, traveling on Edgewater between E. Hillsdale and Baffin, there is one spot that the call would drop. Generally when I'm walking within a building, I get good reception without any dropped calls. I was in Albany, Foster City, San Mateo, Palo Alto, North San Jose and Milpitas. inside Hillsdale mall in San Mateo, I get good reception. I used to have Verizon Wireless, and I can say that its reception is the same as Sprint PCS. With Sprint PCS, I had the LG (Sprint) free phone. With Verison, I had a compact, heavy Sony cell phone with better reception than the Motorola Startac.
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