Call quality is one of the reasons my father initially chose Verizon, as well as their geographic coverage. At the time he signed up, he was still working and he was also traveling significantly for business, so he didn't want to choose a cheaper provider if they didn't have the coverage he needed--it would have been very bad form to be on the phone with a business client only for the call to get dropped in the middle of nowhere! I have no complaints about the call quality, and the only time we *know* we'll have an issue with dropped calls is if we really are literally out in the middle of nowhere. There's a town in TX called Eagle Pass. If you look at the US map of Verizon's coverage, and you see how the whole damn country is a nice bright red except for a few scattered tiny white spots? Eagle Pass is one of those white spots. Assuming you don't travel a lot, that shouldn't be a problem for you.

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