Lost Coverage in Barton, VT

I am not sure... maybe the roaming carrier (Unicel) is turning down analog/TDMA coverage. The analog service is not going to get any better; maybe someone who knows more about the PRL lists can tell whether VZW has pulled the roaming agreement with Unicel. By the way, the pals with Cingular/Tmobile are roaming on Unicel's GSM service.

 

First was the good Coverage with VZW or Rural Cellular??

Rural Cellular does have CDMA coverage in many markets in the Northeast so you could get a digital signal if you can roam on them.

Rural Cellular seems to be stronger than VZW in NY and VT

I know analog here in Logan is terrible many places there are analog holes now so I guessing that analog in many markets today is just kept to FCC standards until Feb 18th 2008 comes and they will shut it off.

 

Your zipcode is on the very southern edge of Verizon coverage, so your house must be south of that zipcode. That would indicate no Verizon service at all.

You must be roaming full time on Unicel. You must have had to charge your phone daily, due to the poor battery life when on analog!

Sounds like a Unicel tower went down or they simply replaced the analog cell facing you with GSM (they cant completely shut down analog until 2008).

There is not much you can do other than switch to Unicel. Your Cingular and T-Mobile friends are roaming on Unicel GSM (you can't switch to Cingular or T-Mobile as they dont offer any service in VT - other than towers at a couple ski areas, or spillover from Lebanon NH).

 

agreed, Unicel is the way to Go.