Stuck between a rock and a hard place
I have been with Verizon Wireless since 2000. I recently moved to a new condo about 1 year ago. I am in the suburban St. Louis area. For the last month or so I have given up my AT&T home (wireline) phone and decided to save a little money and do the Wireless only phone thing.
For whatever reason, I have come to find out that my Verizon Wireless phone sucks when you are forced to deal with only having a cell phone as your only source of communication. I guess I did not pay too much attention to it when I had a home phone because I would make most of my phone calls to deal with customer service to my service providers: cable, credit card, utilities, etc. using my hom...
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This is funny, cause this is the exact same situation that I am going through right now. I bought a condo in 2005 that has terrible verizon reception, but verizon is fantastic everywhere else in my area.
I hooked up a landline and decreased my cell minutes so my combined phone bill for two lines isnt that bad. I also called verizon customer care about the reception, but I really didnt want to leave, because I hate att and that is really the only other viable option for me.
I say stick with vzw and use a landline for home use. I also like having a landline, its kinda nice sometimes when you just dont want to talk on a cell phone.
hope this helps
Chris
I do have the option of going to Sprint like my fiance has but I dont know. My company would not offer me a discount w/ Sprint.
I thought that cell phone companies dont share coverage towers within big cities, populated areas, only in the country or on major highways.
Otherwise if everyone shared the same towers...would'nt every cell phone company offer the same features and coverage level?
I know for me, my friends that have sprint dont get much of a signal in my condo. They have about the same coverage as me.
On LG vx8600s with older firmware, press OK to open the menu on your phone. Press 0, and then six more zeros to open the service menu.
ON newer firmware, you should enter: ##PROGRAM8600 (##77647268600) + send, then enter the six zeros.
I would play with the settings in option 3 AKA Network select to see if you can adjust some stuff in there to make it work.
Make sure you write down the original settings before you change them, just In case you get a phone with no reception at all.
Also another thing is research getting a Femtocell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtocell »
I'm not sure if there are an...
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If you're having issue try another phone, or port to another carrier that works in your home.
you have to go in the secret menu, and select option one, service prg. There is step by step instructions for doing it. Basically you need to know the sid number verizon is in st. louis. You can go in and lock out verizon's sid and that will force your phone to go onto the extended network. Which in st. Louis, I would bet is USCC.
And yes, the 8600 is not a very good phone for signal. You will need to find out who verizon roams on in st.Louis, and then find out if that carrier has better service in your condo area. If they do, then locking out verizon's sid will do the trick.
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And on the other deal on the service menu, Brown27 is right here, do not mess with the settings in service menu unless you have knowledge of what to do or know someone that can show you. Practice on a old junk phone i...
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in my small town, we have 2 choices, Verizon, or USCC. USCC has the better service with restrictions, and verizon has the weaker service with no restrictions and most everybody I know or talk to have verizon. So verizon wins, I can work around the signal situation.
During my travels, verizon is fine, just suck in my house and most of our town.
And yes, I know evdo is not voice, but your is phone programmed to go with evdo first, then 1X, well if there is a tower that has evdo close enough to you, your pho...
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I'm thinking about it for my home as I may need several lines, and I've got only ONE good wire pair into the house. Of course I've got a 5 Mbps cable line too. It's rather inexpensive. Hope this helps.
From there you can compare which providers can offer you coverage and service where you would be using it the most-at home and at work.
One big thing, look at home coverage. Even with agreements for no roaming fees, roaming can cause you problems. The review site has a full article as to why.
Considering you are living in at&t territory for land line service, I would assume (but not guarantee) that at&t for wireless would work better in that area.
I have noticed a possible connection between land line zoning laws, and cellular reception for the wireless provider owned by-or contracted with-the corresponding land line service.
For instan...
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