Cell service?

We had to switch from AT&T to Verizon when we moved here and now get much better reception.

Agree, Verizon. Now if we could only have an internet service that works!!

Search this forum for this same question and discussion over the years. And it's still Verizon!

Verizon seems to be the best down here but there are stretches of 20 where there is virtually no service. When I drove to the FWB airport it was spotty at best from Freeport to Niceville. Welcome to Walton County.

And don't even get started on cable and Internet services here.

ATT installed new tower on 30A at Grayton earlier this year. With the iPhone 5S never drop calls anymore in BMB. CenturyLink internet works great bundled with directv ($129.00/mo 4 both )
No problems.

ATT installed new tower on 30A at Grayton earlier this year. With the iPhone 5S never drop calls anymore in BMB. CenturyLink internet works great bundled with directv ($129.00/mo 4 both )
No problems.

Directv is perfect. CenturyLink is very mediocre service at our house. But it's all we got.

AT&T service just north of 98, off Holiday, in Miramar Beach is non-existent. I had to buy my way out of the contract after moving from BMB.

Sprint is awful. I switched 2 years ago to VZW and it is great. Does anyone have any comments on TMo???? Considering TMo for cost reasons.

I was 19 years with ATT. I have been with Verizon for 1.5 years and now it's perfect. With ATT, summers and other high tourist times, I would drop calls often, and that was when a call would actually go through. ATT does not have the capacity to handle the traffic.

Here is good source to check location of towers per carrier. http://www.cellreception.com/towers/towers.php?city=santa+rosa+beach&state_abr=fl

Verizon here too! I have been told our reception problems are due to the many tall trees and metal roofs...

Verizon here too! I have been told our reception problems are due to the many tall trees and metal roofs...

We have excellent service with Verizon in the forest with a metal roof.

Sprint is improving. I can get calls inside my house with a metal roof!

We use T-Mobile. It has gotten a lot better over the years. We have a good signal inside the house (metal roof) and all over in Grayton. But there are still dead spots around the area. Everybody I know here says that Verizon has the best coverage and signal, but you pay a lot for it.

Just an aside: it isn't necessarily the metal roof. In my house, which has a metal roof, we have no reception problem whatsoever (with Verizon). When we go next door, fifty feet away, in a house with a metal roof, we don't get good reception. I think it either karma, or the position of the stars and planets on any given Sunday.:cool:

Any more recent thoughts on what cell service works best on 30A? Thanks

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Any more recent thoughts on what cell service works best on 30A? Thanks

Well,it’s NOT ATT....must turn on WiFi calling in settings then it will work inside house if within WiFi range..iPhone X...

Any more recent thoughts on what cell service works best on 30A? Thanks

It's really hit and miss. I prefer Verizon, wife likes AT&T but has a lot of dead spots.