paddlingbear writes "AT&T's 3G Microcell advertising in BIG LETTERS offers "up to 5 bars in your home". In type almost as large it says the microcell must be used in an area where AT&T is licensed to provide service. Only in small print in the TOS does it mention that the use of a microcell is restricted to four metropolitan areas, Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, and Columbia SC. When I bought my microcell at an AT&T store in Atlanta, I asked the clerk if it would be useable in the mountains of Western North Carolina where I had a second home but where AT&T service is zero because I'm in a valley with two mountains between me and the nearest AT&T tower. He said yes. Tech support says no...too bad. The TOS reserve the right for AT&T to restrict national network deployment, so who knows when if ever AT&T will be able to compete with Verizon in the Carolinas, even in a situation where I'm trying to dump AT&T's data load onto my Verizon DSL line."