I’m in Union Mills NC. When I came here 2.5 years ago I had AT&T which worked fine in KY but not NC.  After some digging I learned from a lot of local people Verizon had this area so I switched and all was fine until a couple of months ago. I had an interesting call with someone in management after going through the usual people first and that whole tired line of questioning ”Is it inside the house or outside.  What I learned is they’re turning off  towers in certain directions, 3g will be completely phased out by the end of year as well any CDMA. Initially this Verizon person insinuated support for older phones especially in rural areas is not going to be there and what tower service we once had is probably going to be sold off to the Cricket/Boost cell service providers.  I don’t know about y’all but I’m not going to go quietly into the night while Verizon plays loose and fast with our wallet.  I smell the need for a class action suit people.