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Posted: Dec 14th, 2006 10:26 pm |
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I have Verizon and have noticed some dead spots in Oak Ridge and wondered if others have experienced the same with their carrier or they have the perfect carrier with no dead spots  and I should switch.
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Vicki White-Lawrence
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Posted: Dec 14th, 2006 11:33 pm |
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We have Verizon too, and I know that I'm going to lose service on Hwy 68 at Harrell Road if I'm using my phone. (I do try not to use it while driving!) Also have problems on Eversfield Road. Of course, I also have problems at my house and at Stokesdale Elementary, which is within one mile of my home. My husband and son do not have the same difficulty that I do at home and around Stokesdale, though, so I think it depends to some degree on the kind of phone you have.
I hope we get some good response to this. Our contract expires during the summer, so you can help us with our research. We've been generally pleased with service, although they just tell me I have to deal with the limitations of my phone....
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Posted: Dec 14th, 2006 11:42 pm |
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In the research I have done Verizon has the most towers of anybody in our area and that is what is important. Unforturnately there are huge areas that have no towers so there fore no coverage. From Hway 14 to the Danville cut off is a dead zone. Also the radio waves tend to go in straight lines so if you go down in a dip the wave does not necessarily go with you on 220 at the lake a lot of time is a dead zone. Also sun spots, humidity, population and all sorts of other things determine what kind of reception you get.
Someday cell phones will bounce off satelites and this will not be a problem. Summerfield and most towns have ordinances stopping the building of towers which is another problem.
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Posted: Dec 15th, 2006 02:18 am |
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HEY! I'm with Verizon too! Ya'll can call me for free cause we're all "in"!!!!! 
No dead spots for me in Summerfield except for inside my house. Sometimes I have a low signal on Hwy 220 from Strawberry to 150, but only if I'm trying to call out. I don't ever have dropped calls because of reception which I think is WAY more aggravating than not being able to make a call in the first place.
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Posted: Dec 15th, 2006 02:18 pm |
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we dropped Verizon because we could not hear you now, we went with Cingular and have excellent service, except @ Harrel and 68.
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Posted: Dec 17th, 2006 01:19 am |
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I think sometimes it also has to do with which phone you have. Some definitely get better reception than others.
I have Alltel and I'm fairly pleased with it. Nobody in our family gets good reception inside our house (I think we have a force field or something that blocks reception) although if you go to the back door or stand by a window, it's not too bad. You can forget talking inside big buildings (Lowes Foods in Oak Ridge, any of the malls, etc.).
My husband has Sprint, and it's terrible. He has to actually drive up the road to even get his messages.
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Posted: Dec 17th, 2006 02:49 am |
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| We use Nextel & the only place I have any issue is Fleming Road. Mine dies bad on one section of that stretch of Fleming between Food Lion & the Blvd.
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Posted: Dec 17th, 2006 08:25 am |
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I have Cingular, have found Cingular to have overall good coverage in Greensboro/Summerfield area.
As DToney mentions above, there is a dead spot at Fleming & Bryan Boulevard. Another at Hamburg Mill in the S curve by Battleground. Another on Bryan Blvd in the airport area.
Cingular appears to do a poor job of handing off from tower to tower when moving. Sometimes when I drive on business, going on I-85 or I-40 long distance, have had lengthy phone calls, will get cutoff multiple times. The towers do not seem to overlap well enough for the "handshake" to occur.
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Posted: Dec 18th, 2006 04:35 pm |
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A big dead spot for me on Verizon is going up Linville road as you approach the Haw River bridge. Lucky if you get 1 bar and usually lose any existing call.
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