On Jun 19, 8:24 pm, Redigoogle <redicl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I live in a mountainous area in northern California....
> Recently, within the last three to five months,Verizonservice has changed noticeably even dramatically.
> So much so that some of my friends have changed providers.
> ...

Bingo. Dagnabbit. Anyone know specifically about this last
weekend, June 18-21 -- was anything especially bad?

I've been successfully using a Kyocera 6035 for years at a mountain
field work site in N. Ca. -- always connected fine.
All that time, people with newer phones without the pullout type
antenna have often found they couldn't work cellular where we could.

This trip, first of the summer, was different -- we have two identical
phones, same behavior. The phone shows three bars for about ten
seconds, then "searching" for about 30 seconds. Repeated same problem
all four days we were on the site.

I'd guessed what someone later in this thread describes -- Verizon
must have quit using their tall tower that was line of sight for us
and moved to smaller weaker cells, and we're beyond the fringe now.

Anyone have a recommendation for a Verizon phone known good at their
margin?
What "higher end" pricier phones do work?

Hoping to hear from someone who has experienced this loss of signal
and succeeded in finding hardware to get connection back?

Anyone have a recommendation for any cell phone model that will
reliably take an external antenna?

The old Kyocera would work with an external antenna ok, but the
adapter was a pressure-fit onto a very flimsy little diagnostic port.
Too easy to break right off the circuit board, I had to resolder mine
several times and have kept going only by swapping parts, til now.

If indeed there was a problem with no analog channels during this
period -- what time span? Will it be restored?