Extremely slow LTE service in San Francisco

I have an iPhone 5 with Verizon postpaid contract plan [unfortunately].
The data speeds have been miserable last several months. Most of the time, my download is less than 1mbps and upload will be like 30kbps.
Right now, I am near the city hall area and my speeds are 0.03mbps down and 0.03mbps up. and yesterday was 0.04mpbs down and 0.10mbps up.
I went to the verizon store and it works fast inside since they have repeaters in the store. They said the phone appears to work fine and said it depends on the area..blah..blah..basically they just stopped short of admitting their network sucks in SF.
I'm extremely disappointed with the service considering how much they are charging me for it.
I think Verizon should give a discount or let us terminate the contract without the Early Termination Fee. I would be happy to go back to AT&T. They have much faster speeds here and lower fees.
Anyone else having such slow speeds in SF? Feel free to share it here..

I downloaded 4G LTE Switch (which was created because another one started having malware or requested a bunch of features, so this one, for now is pretty free of unnecessary items) from the Play store. Being able to force my phone to 3g is fantastic since I can actually use it again. The LTE works fine by PacBell Park, but while I have 4-5 bars of signal strength in places like the Castro (from Castro and Market down to Castro and 19th, Hartford over to whatever the street past Collingwood is) loads slowly, and by slow I mean 5 minutes between clicks on stuff and at worst times out entirely.
The other really bad area I've noticed is Church and Dorland Ave up to 20th and Church and over to Valencia.
I re-tested after downloading the app that allows me to force my Droid Maxx (Capable of XLTE so it's not that) and the things I was trying to do on LTE load near instantly on 3g since the data needs of the apps I'm using are miniscule. I've reported this to Verizon but of course never hear anything back from them. I'm just chiming in hoping that this and other forum posts get seen and have more and more people echo the ever increasing horror story of LTE on Verizon in San Francisco. I'm available for an upgrade, as much as I hate AT&T I might have to move over there myself.
I should mention I handle about 40 Verizon lines for my company and most of my users are reporting dead zones like this all over SF as well as all the people I play Ingress with (which is probably the best way to find data outages more than any other application on the phone right now due to being a GPS based video game where you have to go all over the place. Never thought I'd be using it as a tool for finding out where Verizon's data coverage is crap.)
If anyone wants me to post Speedtest pictures, I can make that happen, but I think if you're here in this thread you're in the same boat already.

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