My situation. Just jumped ship from ATT to Verizon. Fired up an Iphone5. I live and work in Manhattan. Live in E. Village. Work all over the city. Now granted I've only been on network ...
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My situation. Just jumped ship from ATT to Verizon. Fired up an Iphone5. I live and work in Manhattan. Live in E. Village. Work all over the city. Now granted I've only been on network for about 48 hours, but I have to say, I'm simply appalled at the signal strength of Verizon in the city. Just to make sure phone was in correct operating shape. I reset the network settings. And reinstalled the factory software on the iphone to make sure I had a clean slate to work with. My issues. 1) Very limited LTE coverage. spotty at best. Weak and slow in quite a few areas. Midtown is awful. 2) Building penetration is terrible - I drop to EVDO signal "o" indoors consistently Awful. 3) In 3G areas phone will not automatically re-lock back on to LTE signals. Have to reset signal into airplane mode. And then back. Unacceptable. The question to Verizon is...I feel like I'm back to the bad old days of the iphone1 rollout on ATT. This is terrible. While Verizon my have a nice looking map of broad LTE coverage across the USA, the depth of coverage is shallow? Checking on other forums and postings - Verizon LTE coverage in Manhattan appears to be universally awful in relation to how it interacts with the iphone5 - And the 3G speed next to useless. Is it time to jump back to ATT? Sadly, this may be the case.