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Phone says I have 2-3 bars of 4G, but I have little to NO service.

I'm extremely frustrated. For the past several weeks, my boyfriend and I (both Verizon customers, both have Droid Turbo phones, on separate unlimited data plans) have been getting little to absolutely no service even though our phones both say we have anywhere between 2 to full bars of 4G.

He pays over $100 a month and is getting NO service! How is this happening, how is this okay? We're both so fed up with the frustration of not getting any service from our devices. 2 bars of 4G should be plenty enough to load a webpage or watch a video or send an email. But even having 3 bars of 4G doesn't get us ANYWHERE! It takes 15 minutes to load 10 seconds of a video on Netflix.

Almost considering canceling our plans and switching to a new carrier. We live on the road and don't have a solid wifi set up, so data is our only option to do what we need to for our work and leisure lives.

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lukevinyl

How much data have you used so far in your bill cycle??

If you have reached the data -reprioritization limits this might be the cause....

THOCLA24

I have the same issue. I left sprint to come back to Verizon because they had the better service, boy was that a mistake. It now cost me a bunch more money and the acual level of service is worse! I'm ready to pull my hair out.

lukevinyl

That doesn't mean anything in the context of the OP's post. I have asked them how much data they have used to see what the actual issue is. So you can't say you are having the same issue based on the info that was given, which is that they have slow speeds-- this could be caused by many many things.....

elich

Around the time it started happening, I hadn't even used 20GB, but the problem persisted past "using" a little over 25GB. I hadn't even reached the throttle limit of 24GB when the issue started. And then a week ago my billing cycle reset and still nothing, the service did not get any better.

In the recent past, my boyfriend has been able to get up to 80+GB of functional service before he was really throttled. Why is this issue starting now?

Verizon_Support

ELICH,

We definitely don't like to hear of such service issues. You deserve blazing fast speeds wherever you are! What is the zipcode that this happens in? Does it happen both indoors and outdoors?

- JosephT_VZW

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lukevinyl

I do know VZW was not strictly enforcing these "soft caps" initially. I know that they certaily are now however. If you are on the new unlimited plan after you use 22GB on a smartphone and 10GB on a "data-only" device, you are at risk of having data re-prioritisized....

Are you and your boyfriend on the same new Verizon Unlimited plan??

elich

Thanks for getting a hold of me Joseph. It's mostly indoors in our mobile

home, but we never use to have this problem until recently - the past 3

weeks. It was happening a bit while we were in Virginia (zip code 24091)

and now we're in Ohio (zip code 44086). Our service is really slow outdoors

and pretty much everywhere we go, but basically non-existent in our home.

On Jul 23, 2017 1:13 PM, "vzw_customer_support" <forums@verizonwireless.com>

Verizon_Support

THOCLA24 we are glad you came back home to our network. We want you to love your service so I want to help you get this fixed. I know you said you are having service issues. What exactly is happening with your service? When did this trouble start?

AdrienneP_VZW

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THOCLA24

I spent some time on line with a tech, He walked me through a couple steps

to reset my phone to see if that works. I will also need to make some

adjustments on my wife and two kids IPone 7 but our session timed out....

guess I need ot try again.

Best regards,

Tom [removed]

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VBaggedinSC

I feel your pain. I have been a loyal V customer for pretty much ever. Their service has been really good, and I have never complained until last week.

I moved to San Clemente CA 2 months ago. My area is NOT a "Verizon Zone". My roommate has a terrible tmobile leach carrier and has Netflix and games all day on his phone. I have the "Best Carrier" (just ask my accountant!) and cant even finish a phone call. When a megacompany can no longer serve you, you expect to be able to leave.

I called customer "care" and was put through the regular reset with low level support. Finally I reached someone higher and was told they were investigating my service.

Since I HAVE NO SERVICE where I live, I expected a resolution. Instead I have been met with angry, petty, ego-based friction.

Anyway. This on top of what I was suckered into called a "FREE TABLET" (MSRP $129, But they charge $500 over 2 years, which isn't horrible, unless YOU CANT USE THE THING.) So a representative of this company lied to me, talked me into padding his commission with accessories and tablet and insurance and everything else his manager told him to rope me into, (I have friends formerly employed please don't tell me I'm not being accurate) and now, as I can no longer use the service, at all, I am told to suck it up. After 10+ years, of $100+ per month.

All friends and family and coworkers will be getting a copy of this and I expect you to lose more than my devices income.

Bad show Verizon.

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JAMWAL26

Same issue here in 35803 zip area. This is really frustrating. However, I can send Gmail emails but not Comcast emails, my primary email account. Would lead me to believe it is a Comcast problem, but I do not have 4G right here in the city and even with 3 to 4 bars of signal and no wifi, email messeges wil not send. They fail every time. No time for this!!

Verizon_Support

JAMWAL26 Providing a reliable connection is always our goal, and I'm sorry you're having problems with our signal. We want to learn more about what's going on with the service. Are others impacted in the same area? Are you experiencing problems with calls, text, and data connection? Can I please have the nearest intersection to the problem location and city? Share details. We are here to help.

EvelynR_VZW

RyeGuy

This problem seems like it is pretty widespread. Everyone that I work with that have Verizon as a carrier has 2 to 3 bars of service and nothing will load. Calling is fine, just no data. Other employees that have AT&T are not affected. This is happening in the building and the zip code is 14760. There is also a variety of different phones.

Verizon_Support

@RyeGuy ,

While we'd always want to know if you're having some sort of issue with a connection, there's a lot more that we'd need to know about this to best assist. You mentioned this happens indoors - how far away do you need to go before it improves? When did this begin? While calls work fine, how about texting?

RussellM_VZW

drm1963

Harrison, Tennessee Cell Service degraded badly from Full bar to in past 6 months now @ 1 dot

drm1963

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3m ago

First off We have iPhone X, iPhone 6s+, iPad 9.7 with Cell service on it.

Family has iPhone x, iPhone 8, iPads, a few Android devices etc...

We are an Apple FamilyWe have lived in this Home for over 5 years and I have been with Verizon forever, prior to moving here.

When we moved in we had Cell service at MAX strength.

Over pst 6 months our cell service has degrade to what it is now, ALL BUT NON_EXISTANT!

Now this is both inside and Outside the home and the Tower is 1.5 miles away and since I hve not moved my 4,000 sqft home and from what I can tell the tower has not moved either there must be something that Verizon is doing to degrade the signal.

I keep all the phones for my family updated. I have had the phones to the Verizon and Apple store and neither have identified issues with our phones so again, there must be something that Verizon is doing to degrade the signal.

I have spoken to others in the area with Android as well as more Apple products and they all have the same story.

Verizon service has degraded to the point to where I am looking at changing providers as well as recommending others do the same in the area and then Verizon may take notice of the situation!

I can go to my family inCleveland where we have always had a full bar and strangly we still have a full bar when there but again we return home and anywhere we are we no have just 1 dot or less!

calvinjm

Same!

We left Verizon and went to AT&T, then we were coaxed to come back to Verizon after they “upgraded our area”—a bunch of lies. It’s getting worse by the day and they don’t even care!

Instead, they send this:

“Free Verizon Msg: The review of your reported service issue is complete. Please click the link to see more details. http://www.vzw.com/signal”

oh, okay.

calvinjm

On average, I use 1-4 GBs of my “Premium 50 GB of 4G LTE” and I experience the exact same issue... so what’s the excuse here?

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