You might be on the edge if the network if it wasn't during one if the times the entire network went down in the last month or so. In San Francisco, I have absolutely no issues with 4G unless Verizon's network is down, but when I traveled to visit family about an hour and a half away from SF, it constantly switched from 4G to 3G since I seemed to be on the edge.
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