Verizon Wireless Claims Coverage in 233 Countries... Out of 192

Now that's a-spicy network!

Verizon is pathetic. I live 12.5 miles from NYC. I literally had to run out into the middle of my street to get cellular reception. They give lousy service and slam you with outrageous disconnect fees when buyer's remorse sets in. When I finally kicked them out of my ground service due to many week-and-longer outages, they showed up to remove equipment when my new cable service was installing and their tech ATTACKED my cable guy right in the driveway with me in the middle. Real professional Verizon! Please stop killing trees to send me the copius amounts of "we want you back" mail I find stuffed in my mailbox several times a week, I will NEVER use your company again!

I had bad reception in my hometown for Verizon coverage. After many years of not being able to get coverage when I went home i wrote to the President of Verizon Wireless. I got a phone call from someone in his office a week later. He said "but we show coverage at the intersection of...." I said "that's outside the city limits on the South. "but I show coverage at the intersection of ..." I said, "that's outside the city limits on the North." But...and he covered the East and West limits of the town....all outside the city limits (its a very small town). I said that doesn't matter, I don't want to have to drive a mile outside town to get coverage. I told him I'd not been able to get coverage for 15 years there and that I'd been complaining for the same length of time. Next time i went home I pulled out my phone in the middle of town and had four strong bars! Had good coverage there ever since. You have to tell them and don't give up. They do work hard to make sure you have coverage once you make it clear they haven't solved the problem.

I never liked Verizon either, for my cable or for my cell phone. It was great at first, but there's an old saying: You can't get a slice without paying for the loaf (which means there's always a catch). Besides the dropped calls (and there were many), they jack up the price after a few months and in the end, you pay as much as you were paying before, and for less than what you had! My mom wanted to try Verizon because it was cheaper than Optimum, and since I had lost my job and couldn't afford to pay it anymore, I let her switch. Once I left home, my brother told me she went right back to Optimum...she never did admit that she was wrong!

For the northeast, Verizon cellular service is FAR better than any other network (I've tried a few for both personal and business). I don't care how many countries they think there are, as long as I don't have dropped calls and can get my data coverage. And to the writer above, 12.5 miles out side NYC (I live in metro NY as well) and no coverage? Try to get ANY coverage in Westchester or Fairfield county with AT&T cellular. Sounds more like you had a problem with their ground service than their cell service, and I would never use them for that.

Well I would like to know who to contact about coverage and drop calls. I work in a office and i have to go outside to use my cell, or it gets droped. Went to verizon they gave me a new phone but no better. Everyone here has AT&T and they have no problems. I just started to have problems when we bought a more expensive phone (blackberry). Of course the reps at Verizon says it has something to do with my building....lol so why does AT&T have no problems...
May have to change when contract is up.

Verizon is freaken' AWFUL! I had them as one of my first internet providers, or should I say, "didn't have coverage"? I was without coverage MORE than I was able to get online! I got to know EVERY technician in my area as they were out repairing (or trying to repair) it at least once a week. Once the tech was at my house, and this is no lie, for almost 8 HOURS! That was on a Friday and when he left it was working. That lasted until Sunday when it went down again. I called them, spoke with someone who barely spoke English is freaken' India and they told me someone would be at my house AGAIN, in 2 days! I told them that was totally unacceptable so they said they'd have someone there the next day. Well of course they didn't show and when I called and asked when someone would be there they actually had the audacity to tell me "look out your window and when you see a Verizon truck that means they're there." I went freaken' ballistic, screamed for about 5 minutes, hung up, called Comcast and haven't been without service once since that time. I paid them for 2 months of service that I never had, THAT'S how bad they were. Verizon SUCKS!

I live 50 miles west of NYC. Verizon is the only network that works here. Even at my shop it works inside, while almost everyone else has to go outside. Happy customer for over a decade.

# 4 Don't say that, he'll go and we the taxpayers WILL pay for it!!

Only the " GEEK " knows for sure !

verizon has more cell sites because their on uncle sam's land,so that uncle sam can monitor them silly people US has 100% access to verizon cell phones..and they just got access to your iphone ..lol... big brother has you right where they want you

I live in the Northeast, Fairfield County in fact. I tried Verizon when I got my very first cell phone,yrs. ago. Luckily I lived on a dead end street (in Stratford) because I'd wind up walking almost to the corner(even though my house was the 5th on the street)just to pick up a decent connection! I really hate Verizon. Their computer card doesn't work any better either! I also have a home in NC. I switched to SPRINT years ago and never had one problem anywhere I go. I never experience dropped calls or lost calls,where I can't get through. So I personally don't think it's where you live, it's just Verizon. After all they don't even know how many countries there are in the world, how can they know where to put up lines? Oh and MacArthur,I thought the subject was VERIZON what does the President have to do with cell phones? Why do people have to bring our President up at every subject discussed on any site? I voted for him, he's doing fine. get over it.

I have Verizon and am extremely happy with it as well as is my family who tried other companies only to switch to Verizon. They had trouble with reception and dropped calls very badly. I have not had one dropped call or trouble with my phone. I can make and receive calls inside buildings and where ever I am. Everyone claims it is the company at fault, I dont think so. I am in the southeast and would never go to the other companies who claim to be better but experience has concluded otherwise.

In the telephony world, telephone numbers consist of "country code"+"city (area) code"+"number".
Country codes are assigned by the International Telecommunications Union to countries, "non-UN-recognized countries/territories", e.g. Palestine, Vatican City, Cook Island, Guam, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, USVI, Cayman Islands, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, St. Maarten, Reunion, Falklands, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Antarctica, Guantanamo Bay, etc., and "services" such as Inmarsat, Thuraya, International Freephone, etc.
There are well over 230 country codes...but only 192 UN-recognized countries.
Therein lies the difference......

Maybe they are talking to the martians! LOL

I live in So. Calif and have found Verizon to be the very best. Friends and family have tried other companies, but in our area Verizon has the best service.

I have had VERIZON for 11 years. I have wonderful reception in remote places and have had very few dropped calls. I over ran my minutes at a time I was out of town on an emergency. I called them and they dropped the over time minutes. I would not have a nother service other than VERIZON!

I live in Fort Pierce, Fl. After the hurricanes in 2004 I went way over my minutes. A homeless wanderer. I called Verizon and when I told them the reason they took all the excess minutes off my bill. No problem. Love those folks.