What is your experience with Verizon?

One of the many (unfortunately) things that make my life shorter by weeks if not years, is horrible phone service. Neither at work nor at home can I get reliable signal, both phone and data, even when I'm within feet from the wireless router in my own apartment. If this were happening in the middle of South Dakota somewhere, it would be at least understandable or even excusable. But I live and work here in Chicago, not a small rural township.

So . . . I've tried T-Mobile. Sucks. Now I'm with Sprint. Sucks as well. Judging by my girlfriend's experience with AT&T, it's no better than the first two.

That leaves Verizon (or something else?).

Are there any Verizon customers? Would you recommend it?

Or something else entirely?

Thank you.

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Permalink Reply by Justin B Newman on May 16, 2013 at 3:36pm

Just to clarify the record re: Verizon, AT&T, and Ameritech... When Ameritech and SBC merged (forming the company we now call AT&T), both Ameritech and SBC had wireless networks in St Louis and Chicago. In order to complete the merger, Ameritech's Chicago and St Louis assets were sold to GTE (1999, $3.27 billion). GTE eventually merged with Bell Atlantic, forming Verizon.

From a purist standpoint, Ameritech became AT&T, not Verizon. OTOH, the Ameritech wireless network and customers in St. Louis & Chicago ultimately became the Verizon Wireless network and its customers.

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