Before you sign up you may want to borrow a friends Verizon phone to see if
you have better reception in your house.  Verizon is 800MhZ in NYC so they
are going to have better building penetration than the 1900MhZ.  I have the
A530 and get great digital reception.

yes.

Try Verizon for two weeks before switching your number to Verizon - if
you get better reception in your home and elsewhere, switch; if not,
and you're happy with AT&T, stick with them.

Andrew
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In article <3053aafc.0311261424.1fb54239
@posting.google.com>, vivaforever77@yahoo.com says...

I had the same problem in Manhattan a few years ago.  I
returned my ATT in one day and my Sprint phone in 2 days.  
I was about to give up but a VZ rep convinced me to try it,
pointing out I could return it.

YES - try it - I rarely have much of a problem and I'm not
in the best of reception areas.  

But get a phone that is known to get and hold a signal
since you know you're reception isn't great.  I have the VX
4400 and it's excellent (beat out my Moto 7868 for holding
a signal in my house).  I gather the newer VX 6000 is also
excellent - but it's only digital.  That won't matter in
most of the country so it depends upon how/where you plan
to use it.

I would try it first before doing anything.  You CAN (at least I was
told you can) sign up for Verizon service WITHOUT porting, try it out
and if the signal and coverage are good, you can then port your old AT&T
number to your existing Verizon account.  This way, if the Verizon
service ends up being bad, you can just cancel it without the hassle of
having to "un-port" your number (which I don't think anyone has tried
yet, so it could be messy).