[Freeda]

We lived in Briar Meadow (near Lopez CC) for the first 3 years here and had great AT&T cell phone reception. We moved a few miles south to Largo last November, and at first it seemed to me that our cell phone reception was still fine; but during that time I was gone out of state alot, and maybe I just wasn't using my cell phone enough here, since we also have a landline, to realize that there was a problem.

The more I was here in TV on a more regular basis, by springtime, I started noticing intermittent problems with my AT&T cell phone reception, garbled/dropped calls, etc. From another person's post on here, I learned about the Microcell, which is a mini 'tower' that is connected through your internet signal. I found that with enough insistence, AT&T gave me a Microcell ($200 cost if purchased from AT&T) at no charge (which I pointed out that it had done for some other AT&T users in TV area as I learned on TOTV - another good reason to read TOTV postings), and that has completely resolved the reception problem in our home and outside/nearby our house.

Away from home, my signal varies in TV from excellent to bad. I was told by AT&T they they are acquiring TMobile (apparently it will be around March, 2012 or so to get through the FCC regulatory process to complete this), so eventually all of the AT&T and TMobile towers will be combined and available to AT&T users.

Also, AT&T is allegedly upgrading and/or adding towers to improve reception in TV, but I've been told varying estimations by AT&T agents as to when; apparently sometime during the next few months.

The more of us who call and complain, or ask for the gratis Microcell, maybe this will help get the tower improvements done faster.