cell phone service or smart phone service

Which service do use and are you satisfied with it?

According to a "report" I heard, Verizon is going down hill.

I've had Verizon for 10 years. Have it for cell phone, wireless home phone, and wireless Internet. No complaints. We use it in many rural areas of the northeast and midwest. I have to yet to find any other service that does better. I know for sure, several that do worse in areas I go. Sprint is one that has lousy coverage for many of the places I go. I hear down south though, it works very well.

We have had Verizon for a long time, very happy, good customer service if you ever have a problem you can go to any Verizon store and always been well taken care of.

Another note, I take a yearly fishing trip into the allagash wilderness aera of Maine and a buddy had sprint and another had t mobile. Most of the time none of us had any service but whenever I got to a good high aera I had service while others did not until they got back in city limits.

We have put up with bad signal strength for 17 years or so and has been Verizon. I have called them many times with no luck at all. We have I-phone 6, my old flip phone and their home phone connect and I can look out window to south 1/2 mile at one of their towers. They say we are in a bad location?? I wish I had something else to choose from! I would like to try out another service and have them prove to me that it will work. All three phones will drop out even when trying to talk to Verizon customer service.

I use Tracfone which in turn uses either Verizon or ATT. I've used it both ways. In my area I can tell you Verizon is alot better.

AT&T and in the mountains and back woods of Tennessee they are far ahead of whatever is second (Virizon) . We travel overseas a lot and again att seems to be better overseas.

Verizon is the "CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW!?" phone company. Always dropping calls or not ringing when someone tries to call, or ringing wrong numbers for you or not dialing out.

Verizon here. Had them for 12-15 years. No complaints on signal strength but now for phone/tablet trouble the store refers you to a customer service number to troubleshoot your phone/tablet. Don't like that but other wise they are good. ATT has been getting better around here. The other carriers are way behind.

Years ago before cell phones we had landline service from General Telephone Co and ATT for long distance and all was great. Verizon bought out General telephone and our land line service started going down hill about 10 yrs later, no maintained equipment, lines ect. They then unloaded their land line service to Frontier and what a mess! We went without landline service for 8 weeks and I finally got mad and told them to stick it and went with the home phone connect, it works a little better than the cell phones but not by much. The older Motorola cells with the pull up antennas did the best.

We use Total Wireless. 4 phones unlimited talk and text, share 15gb data. $100 a month. Uses verizon towers. Works well for us

Verizon for over 15 years. Love smart phone.

Heard roomers you may have to have a smart phone in future to control your TV.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samremote.view

Wonder how many with flip phone users will flip?
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smart phone as remote.

Iphone 5 and use straight talk with no problems so far.

You've got to ask around and see who the best providers are IN YOUR AREA.
I live in an area that has only two providers that work, Verizon and US Cellular. All the others, including the big names of ATT or Sprint will not work in my area. Just ask my sister who visits me. Whenever she gets here, she has no reception whatsoever and can't even text with her provider.

Long-time Verizon customers here. Every time we've had any complaint, they have been amazing! We recently upgraded to the unlimited data plan, which was only $4 and change more than what we were paying for 6gig/month. On this new unlimited plan, we can use both devices as a hotspot for 10gig/month at 4G, which is a total of 20gig/month at 4G. For the smart phones themselves, they can get 22gig/month of 4G on this plan when not in hotspot mode. I don't know if that is in addition to the 10gig hotspot use or if there is an overall 22gig/month cap per device at 4G speeds. After those limits, our speed is reduced to 3G, which is considerably slower. Our normal 4G speed is slower than most people's 3G speeds! Of course, that's because our nearest Verizon tower is 30 miles away, so we "shouldn't" have any service in the first place. However, a new government repeater tower went up a few years ago, yet gets little use from emergency services. Therefore, as tax dollars paid for the repeater tower, its abilities are opened up to the general public. Still, that tower is 8 miles away, and the smart phone sometimes cannot make a good signal with the tower due to trees. And that's it for us - there are NO other cellular towers in our area!

So even knowing that they have no competition here, and even when I mention we live too far out to get a land line phone, they have provided excellent service. Yes, have gotten a bad representative now and then, but the next one always makes up for any hassle incurred.

I use verizon and it works very well for me. I keep thinking of going back to sprint, but am afraid it won't work as well.

I don't have a cell phone of any kind and get along just fine. I have no plans to ever buy one. My sister has one. She can't go two minutes without calling someone. Sounds like she is talking into a barrel when she calls me.

With Verizon and had a flip phone until about two weeks ago. Seems the speaker died so went in and before they always just gave me another flip phone. This time they said no more free phones. Went to the other kind and having a he?? of a time with it. Have to call my son to straighten it out. He don't know how I can mess something up so bad.

gave up verizon 2.5yrs ago and life is much better now on us cell. I got my first phone in 1992 and thru the years of different owners, it came thru to verizon. it didn't bother them at all to lose a 23yr customer!

i switched to att, right after they put there cell tower on my farm, 200ft from house. no problems with reception yet. went by house with fiber optics line to feed tower, asked them to splice off a line for the house, wouldnt do it

I've mentioned this before, but maybe someone out there maybe didn't see - As mentioned earlier, we live too far out to get a land line phone. Have always had to practically stand upside down in the south window just to get a signal SOME of the time! Now, we have a phone box that allows us to use normal, cordless phones in the house. As this phone box is primarily meant as a data router/modem, we actually found out purely by accident that we now had internet in the area - albeit at the time very splotchy! Now we have quite reliable internet and a home telephone that virtually never fails! I think the system was down one time over the last 15 years or so. Of course, during most of those years the signal was so poor that we really wouldn't have known if the tower was down or not.

Anyway, the "box" we have is the Novatel T-1114, and I must say this thing is impressive! It picks up even a weak signal with great ease! So if you have need of cellular in an area with poor reception, you might consider looking into one of these Novatel router/modems.

Back when the new gov't repeater tower was getting fine-tuned, I went and bought the top-of-the-line WeBoost power booster, and it actually made the overall signal a little worse with it's outdoor aerial antennae over this little box sitting inside the house in the south-facing window. So I'm extremely impressed with this little box! And yes, it IS little. This is one for sell on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Novatel-Verizon-Broadband-Router-T1114/dp/B00JL57PMG), but we got ours free (while that was still an option) and it only cost us $20/month for unlimited phone with no long distance in the US. Now with the new unlimited plan, there's no charge to Canada or Mexico either, so now we no longer have to be afraid if our phone picks up on a Canadian tower.

When we went to Arkansas, we'd take this with us and we had our cordless phones and internet available as well, as we really don't like using that so-called "smart phone". Wife got that before having to make that 1,100 mile trip by herself one time. Anyway, we now pay a touch over $110/month for two devices that both provide us unlimited calls, unlimited text on the smart(?) phone (not that we ever text!), and up to 32gig/month of 4g internet with unlimited 3G after that. The phone box is not a phone, so cannot take advantage of the higher allowance for non-hotspot usage. Still, for just being $4 and change more than our old 6gig/month price, that's a great value!! ...At least in my opinion. We're very pleased to be able to stream TV, look up information, meet you great folks and to order things that simply would not be available to us otherwise.

I am about 40 miles west of Nashville and use Verizon for cell service, would like something better.
I live out in the weeds in a hole in the ground (small valley), there are towers around but the signal doesn't work well in this area. The flip phones I used to have never worked here, then I got a Samsung S6 smart phone which worked fairly well after major tweaking. A couple of weeks ago a new operating system was installed which I didn't want and now it barely works, grrrrr. I get wi-fi through the AT&T internet line, dropped the land line a year ago, too much communication cost. Verizon customer service told me to make AT&T fix their wi-fi because Verizon uses it for backup when the tower signal doesn't work, yeah, right. When AT&T service guys show up here their AT&T smart phones never work, they told me that most of my town area is out of reach of AT&T wireless, so that is not an option.
And the game goes on.