ATT Service Issues

Is anyone in the Slope area also experiencing shotty phone reception and more dropped calls recently (ie over the last week)?

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iPhone signal issues?
http://brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=55911

Also, are there any somewhat reliable cell phone companies in the slope? I've lived in the area for a couple of years and never had as severe a problem with AT&T until lately. I'm beginning to doubt their ability to handle the Ipad/Iphone bandwidth demand..

Verizon is pretty good around here.

Verizon is good. I've heard nothing about Sprint. AT&T is godawful b/c there are so damn many iPhones. But...T-Mobile is the absolute worst.

I had no problems with T-Mo, but there is a big dead spot on 5th Ave right near their store by 11th St. or so.

I have had AT&T (totally fine up until 2 months or so ago), Verizon (but I couldn't use it internationally - not sure if that changed), T-Mo...never tried Sprint.

I've used Sprint since I got my first cell phone (about 20 years ago, I think). I've lived in the Slope throughout that time. Sprint has worked fine for me in the Slope, on my bike trips out on the bike path towards Kennedy airport, and just about everywhere else in I've been in NYC.

The only places I used to have trouble with Sprint in the US (it's useless in Europe) and Canada were on ski slopes. But even there the service has improved and is now acceptable.

I used to have Sprint and constantly dropped calls (or didn't get a signal). Verizon has been great - I would love an I-Phone but I don't want AT&T (almost everyone I know with an I-Phone has told me if Verizon gets it, they'll drop AT&T)

Flexichick wrote: Verizon (but I couldn't use it internationally - not sure if that changed)

Verizon apparently has some program where if the phone you have isn't capable of working abroad (which is probably most Verizon phones) they'll lend you a phone that does work and transfer your service to that phone for the duration of the trip. You then mail them back the loaner phone when you're back in the US. I don't know what sorts of costs might be associated with this, but this elderly secretary at my office utilized the service for a trip to Europe and seemed fine with it.

Probably not great for frequent fliers, but will do for the occasional vacation, er, holiday.

The iphone has more (signal) issues than National Geographic.

Toadette wrote: Verizon apparently has some program where if the phone you have isn't capable of working abroad (which is probably most Verizon phones) they'll lend you a phone

My parents did that last year. Although it seemed to work just fine, they wanted the phones only in case of emergency, and they travel outside the US only infrequently, they said that by their next trip they plan to switch carriers. My father had a good point: if the temp. transfer didn't work for some reason, sorting it out remotely would likely be impossible.

I've never had problems with Sprint in NYC. Or anywhere in the states, for that matter.

My service went down again last week, can't make or receive calls on the 3G network. Anyone else experiencing this?

BKChickie wrote: [quote=Toadette]Verizon apparently has some program where if the phone you have isn't capable of working abroad (which is probably most Verizon phones) they'll lend you a phone

My parents did that last year. Although it seemed to work just fine, they wanted the phones only in case of emergency, and they travel outside the US only infrequently, they said that by their next trip they plan to switch carriers. My father had a good point: if the temp. transfer didn't work for some reason, sorting it out remotely would likely be impossible.
I have Verizon (had Sprint from 1999-2003 and hated it) and the service is clearly the best in the NY area and in most of the U.S.; I got reception at the top of the slopes in Taos and Park City when no one else with me had service. As others have said, in most countries outside the U.S. and Canada, my phone does not work. I have a cheap unlocked GSM phone that I got in Chinatown a few years ago, which I take for travel; I get a local SIM card wherever I go if CDMA isn't supported. I'm thinking of getting an unlocked Android phone for this purpose, now that I've gotten used to having a smartphone. If a Verizon iPhone comes out in January as rumored, I'll probably get one immediately, but for now I'd rather have an Android phone on Verizon than an iPhone on AT&T.

I am having trouble today. anyone else?

Can you hear it??? I can. I can hear it... getting louder....