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Old 06-06-2013, 08:10 AM
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Are you satisfied with AT&T cell phone service here in TV? Looking for an alternative to Verizon!
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Old 06-06-2013, 08:20 AM
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We bought last April in Buttonwood. At that time the AT&T service was not very good. They must have put-up more towers because now we have no problem.
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Are you satisfied with AT&T cell phone service here in TV? Looking for an alternative to Verizon!
The new towers have helped alot for many people around the Villages, but it didn't help at our house in Hadley. We ended up getting a Microcell booster and have gone from 1 bar to 4 bars in our house and get very few dropped calls. Our AT&T phone works pretty well when we are driving around the Villages except for a dead area near Racetrack Road and 466A. Overall we are satisfied now that we have the booster.
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Old 06-06-2013, 09:09 AM
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The new tower(s) helped improve our signal strength immensely in Duval.

In OH, we used to have Verizon for years and were always happy with them. Good company, good service. When we moved, the service at our new home (only about 3-4 miles from our former home) was nearly non-existent - we HAD to change service providers. AT&T was the only provider where we'd have at least an acceptable signal at the new house. We have not had any problems/issues with AT&T, in OH or in TV......other than the horribly weak signal in TV before the new tower(s) came on-line.

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We live in Sanibel and our two ATT phones work great. They invested in two new towers to cover all the growth.
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The AT&T service has improved slightly over the last few months. But this new charge on our bill for "administrative fee" of $0.61 per month per phone is ridiculous.
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The AT&T service has improved slightly over the last few months. But this new charge on our bill for "administrative fee" of $0.61 per month per phone is ridiculous.
we switched to Net10 a no contract phone on the tracfone network using ATTs towers and our 2 phones combined are under $100;month with unlimited everything! we are in Hadley and previously had mlserable verizon coverage and poor ATT, however, since the new towers we can take advantage of the lower cost service.
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Believe it or not my Verizon service has improved immensely in the last few months. I am in Hadley and could only use the phone if I stood in certain spots in the house. All of a sudden the phone started working and I can only attribute it to the new ATT towers.
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We have at&t, the reception was not that great several years ago so they gave us a mini tower for the house and have never had a problem since, great reception and no drop calls
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We have AT&T and live in Fernandina. No problems to report.
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There are pockets of dead zones here in TV with AT&T.
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Have two At&T phones...both work great. Also have a Verizon MiFi card for internet and it works great, too. We live in Fernandina.
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I have AT&T cell phone service and at my home in Hemmingway the bars are about 1 to 2-1/2 fluctuating. I'm interested in knowing more about the mini tower and if there is a cost for it
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Believe it or not my Verizon service has improved immensely in the last few months. I am in Hadley and could only use the phone if I stood in certain spots in the house. All of a sudden the phone started working and I can only attribute it to the new ATT towers.
AT&T putting up a new tower would have NO effect on your Verizon reception, unless Verizon installed their own antennas on AT&T's tower. And I really doubt that AT&T actually developed & built a new tower site in the area. They probably just co-located on an existing tower. New sites are increasingly difficult to get through zoning approvals these days, it can take YEARS. Everyone wants great cell reception, but no one wants the towers in their "backyard". Also, very few tower sites are actually owned or leased by the phone companies themselves these days. Companies like American Tower & Crown-Castle own the leases from the actual property owners & then lease space on the towers & ground to the phone companies like Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile etc. The actual phone companies really prefer not to be in the real estate business.
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After they put up the new towers I no longer have any problems with my AT&T phones. We live in Buttonwood.
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