AT&T Wireless in Vermont

[SSearchVT]

To anyone that has been enjoying the great features AT&T wireless is offering over the last 6 weeks - dropped calls, massive dead zones, voice mail being held hostage, phone being an expensive paper weight - follow this link: http://publicservice.vermont.gov/con...complaint.html fill out a complaint, then forward on to friends...

[catamount]

Huh, I've loved AT&T since I switched from Verizon 8 months ago.

[SSearchVT]

Huh, I've loved AT&T since I switched from Verizon 8 months ago.

If you get outside the Burlington coverage you'll drop almost every call. Coverage at my house in Waterbury was 5 full bars all the time this winter. In the last 6 weeks it'll bounce between No Service and 5 bars with the phone sitting on my desk. Voicemails have not shown up for up to 2 days...

[markbvt]

Weird. I've had no problems with AT&T either. Are you sure they haven't just been working on the Waterbury-area towers? I know they've been doing a lot of work on their network all over Vermont.

--mark

[SVenpointsixtwo]

Yup, no problems here either, all the way from Newport down to Vergennes or so... The occasional dead spot, but never had a dropped call.

[snowborder]

I sure this has to do with the sale of Unicell to Verizon last year and the towers to ATT.

[daviid]

If you are having problems with the service, Please PM me your address and the general time of day it happens. I will get it forwarded it to RF Engineering

as much as you think they don't care. they really do. thats their job to make sure calls don't drop

[MotoFreak]

The only issue I expereince is going in and out of the 3G zones. The call will drop with the switch...that and I have shitty coverage at my house, but thats about it.

[jcbell1007]

The only issue I expereince is going in and out of the 3G zones. The call will drop with the switch...that and I have shitty coverage at my house, but thats about it.

+1

3G is a little spotty in some areas and the switch back to the Edge network drops calls and causes a momentary dead spot till the antennae picks it back up. other than that, I love my 3Gs Iphone.

[catamount]

If you get outside the Burlington coverage you'll drop almost every call. Coverage at my house in Waterbury was 5 full bars all the time this winter. In the last 6 weeks it'll bounce between No Service and 5 bars with the phone sitting on my desk. Voicemails have not shown up for up to 2 days...

Actually... I do get out of Burlington and have never experienced a dropped call with AT&T.

YMMV, and apparently does.

[SSearchVT]

AT&T customer relations called me back yesterday - their field crew found that the T1 line for the base stations in the Waterbury/Waterbury Center area is damaged. They're looking at rigging up a microwave repeater to temporarily relay the signal to the Mt. Mansfield tower while they fix it...

[darkduc7]

i love att, hate verizon

[AHAMAYs2]

Is there any idea as to when the transmitter will be up and running or when the tower itself will be fixed?

[outdoorvtguy]

Verizon worked at my house ( Jericho ) only in a very specific spot in my driveway ( I even outlined it in chalk in the summer ), switched to AT&T and I now have the luxury of being able to make the calls ANYWHERE in my yard / house. And it was cheaper than Verizon. No iPhone for me and I find AT&T much better than Verizon for where I live.

[markbvt]

I live in Burlington, and when I had Verizon it was basically useless at my house. Constant dropped calls, failure to make a connection when dialing out, etc -- one bar of service. Two on a crystal clear day, maybe, if I was lucky. In Burlington!

With AT&T I've always got strong reception, four or five bars.

--mark