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I used to work for Cingular and still believe they have the best coverage across the state. My nephew's Verizon phone stopped working in Flemingsburg as he came down 68. A similar problem of call dropping within the city happened in Lexington but it was fixed. If you have problems at a certain spot make sure you complain. There are times when they believe coverage is good but will respond (eventually). The major area that Cingular is weak is down toward Cumberland.
I use the verison service and have had good luck with getting good connections up at Patoka Lake in INDIANA. I have not used it anywhere else except around my home town of Evansville, IN. About the only time I loose my signal is when I go inside a big building that's concrete and steel.
If outside I always seem to have 4 out of 4 bars.
I just bought on the the Pay as You Go phones. I buy about $30 worth of time each month. So I have a cell phone in case of emergency.
Many of the phone contracts have tricks that make you pay extra is you stop the service too soon. You may have a contract and if you call and ask a question they can say that you have a new contract.
Congress is starting to look into the Cell Phone companies for these shady practices.
So be careful who you sign a contract with and remember that you can change your contract just by you talking to them on the phone. That's the shady part I read about. So be very careful. Some people switched to another cell phone company the last month of their contract only to find out that they owed the old cell phone company a huge fee for early termination. Some ended up getting billed hundreds of extra fines.
I was not going to sign any contracts that bound me to one company for 2 years. Ans if you break the contract (new one or old one) they can make you pay more for the phone they gave to you with the contract. Those phones are offered at a much reduced price if you sign a contract but if they claim you broke the contract they can make you pay the full retail price of the phone.
Just read the fine print and know what you are getting into. And beware that if you call and ask for help or customer service they may claim that you have just verbally authorized them to start a new deal or contract with you. This is why Congress is getting a lot of public complains.
Some cell phone companies have canceled some people's service saying that they called customer service too much. Now that's just plain wrong
I hate companies that do shady business like that.
[quote=GeoFisher;300709]Verizon. Not the CHEAPEST, but by far, the BEST. I've used everything, and Verizon has the best coverage.
I use my phone at Dale, KY Lake, Nolin, Cumberland, Patoka, Dogwood, etc, etc.
I also used my phone 50 miles up the Gunflint Trail in Minnesota, and it worked FINE. No other phone service, and No one in my fishing group has better coverage. In fact, pretty much everyone uses my phone when we're on the lake.
Later,
Geo[/quote]
Verizon or Bluegrass best on the lakes Nolin, Rough,KY Barkley,Dale?
I was at Barren for three days this past weekend and stayed in Scottsville. Bad,bad, bad, service---actually no service. Only on parts of the lake and a little in Glasgow. Didn't have good service til I hit I-65, then it was still in and out for a while.
Called Cingular---which is now AT&T and they admitted having some problems in KY and also he looked at a map and said I-65 was pretty good, but once off of the main highway it was hit or miss.
I told them I was very,very unhappy with their service! No help---other then "they are working on it"
I have bluegrass and can talk anywhere on nolin!
She has 2 more years at UofL and seldom comes home. So it wont matter about coverage here in Hart Co.
Thanks to all again,
Rowdy