i'm not sure that's true, at least that wasn't true about 8 years ago when we moved accross the country and had verizon. it barely worked at our house, verizon actually sent out a truck and they measured signal strength on our street and did say that it was sub par and that they would let us out of our contracts. about a month later they must have added towers in the area because the speeds increased dramatically and we never ended up switching.