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Dang Cell Phone :::

Aztngundoc22
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On the Verizon network :

All last month or so : Nothing but problems ???

Just about sick of it !

Really thinking of switching ?

Any suggestions ???

Thanks !!!
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  • westernMDhunter
    Toyota.
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  • KenK/84Bravo
    Toyota.



    No, no, no.

    I remember a recent post. He was virulently against "Rice Burners."

    Aztngundoc22 - Buy an American made phone. :D







    Good luck with that. :o :shock: :? :lol:










    I believe that model is called the Luddite 1000. ;)
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  • Brookwood
    My prepaid flip type Trac phone has never let me down. If these boots were made for walkin, my trac phone was just made for talkin! 8-)
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  • KenK/84Bravo
    I can relate.

    My Cell phone service, absolutely SUCKS, here at my house, due to the terrain. Lucky if I can send/receive a call here at my house.

    It is not the device, it is the cell phone tower service, or lack thereof. (And the terrain, most of all.) I have gone through multiple carriers and devices. It does not change/improve. On Verizon now, primarily due to my Verizon 4g dedicated Samsung Tablet, (better reception/antennae apparently.) [My internet access.]

    Maddening.
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  • 35 Whelen
    You can save 15% or more by switching to Geico, OP.
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  • KenK/84Bravo
    Or get a Trac-Phone from Wal-Mart. They use all the major carriers cell phone towers.

    1/4 what major carriers run. Mine ran great until I ran in to 4g Internet access issues. (Their Customer Service was somewhat lacking.) I got so pissed, I said sayanora.

    Until I had 4g issues, I was very pleased.

    My Service, did not improve when I switched to Verizon. (Using the same tower.) My main reason for doing so, was my 4g dedicated Samsung Tablet. (Which I am on now.)

    If not for that, I would go back to Trac-Phone. (Loved my Raven Pro phone.) Much better than my current Samsung phone. (J3?) Was only $18 with my Tablet, which was the main reason I switched.
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  • bustedknee
    Two interstate highways cross near our home. Coverage is constantly changing. US Cellular turns radios on and off and moves radios between towers on a daily basis in an attempt to provide coverage for travelers.

    A coverage area today may be a hole tomorrow.

    The owner of a cell tower sells service to all those other 'bookleg" cell companies that don't own any towers or equipment.
    If the cell gets overloaded, guess whose services gets degraded?

    So it may be an advantage to us users to pay more to be on the tower owners plan.

    Either way, we are the losers.

    If its your phone thats acting up....wipe it clean then reset.
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  • Brookwood
    That nerd guy that used to do those can you hear me now commercials for Verizon, jumped ship and joined SPRINT.

    Maybe he knew something!
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  • KenK/84Bravo
    bustedknee wrote:

    If its your phone thats acting up....wipe it clean then reset.



    Did that everday, for months. It would mediate, but not solve the problem.

    It all boiled down to (for me) Inadequate Cell phone tower coverage, based on terrain.

    I can drop Verizon, at any time, due to their confirmation of the same. Once they sent an actual person out to my domicile, based on my repeated complaints of Lack of Service. (Which they confirmed, when they arrived at my location.)

    Who do you go with after that?

    They all use the same tower, from what I have observed/lead to believe.
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  • us55840
    Brookwood wrote:
    My prepaid flip type Trac phone has never let me down. If these boots were made for walkin, my trac phone was just made for talkin! 8-)

    Exactly what I had for the past 10 years, or thereabouts.

    However, the speaker was going bad in it and when answering a call, often couldn't understand what was being said...came out garbled much of the time.

    I finally decided time for a new phone ... another trac phone 'cause ain't paying now $100 a month or whatever horrible price others charge.

    So, I got a new trac phone, one of those complicated "smart phones" I guess you call them....it's a Rebel 4G lite.

    Anyway, takes/makes calls just fine, great speaker, etc. but darned if I can figure out how to use any of the other junk on it.

    I am NOT a tecko nut like some....and that is just fine with me. :D
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  • mogley98
    Verizon consistently has the best coverage across the nation, perhaps not directly in your area but I wouldn't use anyone else right now
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  • jimdeere
    US Cellular for 20 years. Never had a problem.
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  • TRAP55
    mogley98 wrote:
    Verizon consistently has the best coverage across the nation, perhaps not directly in your area but I wouldn't use anyone else right now
    ^^^ This, Verizon sucks, but sucks the least. They own the majority of cell towers, and when that tower has heavy traffic, calls start to drop on other companies phones first. It's important to update your phones roaming capability too. It'll surprise you sometimes how much better the connection is.
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  • Smitty500mag
    TRAP55 wrote:
    mogley98 wrote:
    Verizon consistently has the best coverage across the nation, perhaps not directly in your area but I wouldn't use anyone else right now
    ^^^ This, Verizon sucks, but sucks the least. They own the majority of cell towers, and when that tower has heavy traffic, calls start to drop on other companies phones first. It's important to update your phones roaming capability too. It'll surprise you sometimes how much better the connection is.

    We've tried just about all of them all over the years and Verizon is the best.

    Back about 20 years my company phone used Nextel service with the walkie-talkie service included. It worked like a small 2 way radio on the job plus with regular phone service.

    I was on vacation one year headed to Tijuana Mexico and I was in a motel some where near Flagstaff, AZ when one of the foreman on the job in Birmingham, AL called me on the walkie-talkie and asked If I could come over to his area of the building he was working on to look at a problem.

    I thought that was pretty neat that he just clicked on the button and got hold of me over 1,500 miles away as if I were in the next room. I told him there's a little problem right now 'cause I'm about 1,563 miles from where you're at right now. :D
    I thought those things only had a few mile range but somehow he reached me over half way across the country on the thing. :shock:
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  • montanajoe
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    Verizon here, for 10 plus years. Thus far no complaints.
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  • nmyers
    Go to a Verizon store & complain. They have a mini-booster device that you install at home to improve reception. No charge to customers who they consider valuable; if they tell you that you must pay for it, that's their way of saying, "take your business to AT&T".

    Neal
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