It's been a while since I was down Rutland way, but Verizon was better than my husband's AT&T at the time. That said, depending on where you go, Verizon has gotten pretty bad in other areas. I'm in Milton and we had an Xfinity outage on Thanksgiving night and I couldn't get anything to check if it was just us or not. My husband's phone (Cricket) had service the entire time. My daughter's phone (Mint) also had better service than mine. I asked Verizon about it and they told me that I'm too close to the lake and that water interferes with the signal.