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Just Curious: How many of you are actually getting 4G?

What are you getting?

  • Getting 4G all the time

    Votes: 124 57.4%
  • Sporatically changes from 4G to 3G

    Votes: 32 14.8%
  • Have 4G, but disable it for battery life improvement

    Votes: 10 4.6%
  • Haven't gotten 4G at all

    Votes: 47 21.8%
  • Don't pay enough attention to notice or care

    Votes: 3 1.4%

  • Total voters
    216
No 4G in Metrowest area of Massachusetts. The VZW store I bought the bolt at had great 4G, I live roughly 3-4 miles away from there and I have no 4G in my town. The lady at VZW yessed me to death that "I'd definitely get it a town over" :mad:

edit: just started getting spotty 4G at my house! (will come on for 20 minutes, gone for a few, back on again) I'll take spotty vs none at all, though. Now, I'm hoping I'll get 4G at work (closer to Boston, so I should) and I'll be 100% satisfied with this beast
 
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I just used my 4g Mobile Hotspot from Downtown Denver to Castle Rock (about 40 miles south of denver) and 4g worked for about 95% of the time and even when it switched to 3g the NCAA Hockey Game I was streaming on my Gtab never laged behind . I was very impressed . I streamed this way for about 2hrs at the cost of about 40% of my battery lol
 
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I was getting it yesterday at work but now im not. Im about 40 min east of atlanta.

I was getting it yesterday at work but now im not. Im about 40 min east of atlanta.

I work in Atlanta (couple of miles above the connector), and 4G has been sporadic for me, but I think it's my exact location. My coworkers who have Verizon barely get a signal on their normal phones in the office.

I live just outside the normal 4g coverage area (roughly 1 exit up the interstate from it) and well within the "extended 4g coverage area", and I occasionally get 4g, occasionally 3g and sometimes "0g's". (compared to AT&T, whom I got no signal what-so-ever at my place).

Oh well, it's the best phone signal I've had since I've lived here, and when I get 4g it's easily 4x faster than my DSL. At least when I go over to my friends house to show it off, they should be well within the normal 4g coverage area.
 
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Not in the poll, 'getting 4G all of the time at work, 3G most of the time at home'. To me this isn't a valid complaint for getting rid of the phone since the data plans are the same. Even at home when there isn't that good a 4G signal for me, I don't notice battery life suffering that much.
 
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I'm just curious how many of you guys are actually getting 4G.

I'm in Connecticut and haven't even caught a blimp of it once yet; and didn't even get it at the Verizon store when I bought the phone.

Lol I'm at home on spring break. I am about an hour away from both Philly and Baltimore, but have zero 4g. It sucks being sandwiched between two 4G markets and not getting any. It's like they are teasing us. I'll be getting it once I got back to school in Pittsburgh though. It sucks because I can't wait for spring brak to end just to try out 4G lol.
 
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