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Sorry for the repost but just realized I put this in the wrong section. I have 4 iPhones on my VZW account. My wife and I upgraded to iPhone 7 and passed our 6s down to our sons. All of this happened right around the time they offered unlimited data. Our new phones work well in major city areas and on wifi but where we live in rural America they suck. They drop calls and chop up words like crazy. VZW has done a study on our account and says we are in a poor service area and there is no immediate plan to upgrade. The funny part is our old hand me down phone work fine. No static, no dropped calls nothing. I'm told by a VZW apple "specialist" that the old phones handle the 1x phone service better than the new hardware can. He says 5G is coming and will fix this but no time table on that. My question is there anyone out there who's found settings or a trick to make a iPhone 7 work reliable in a poor service area? Please help before I loose my mind.