IPhone 6 Signal or Reception Problem?

I've been having a problem with the iPhone 6's signal/reception since I received it from launch day. In areas where most people with Verizon LTE (iPhone 5S) have 5 LTE bars, I only have 2. Even my old Verizon iPhone 5 gets 5 LTE bars in places that I only get 2. Sometimes if I power cycle it will go up to 5 and then drop back down to 2. I have also been getting a lot of call failures. I've had more dropped calls for my iPhone 6 then I had in 2 years with the iPhone 5. Sometimes, when I am in these 2 bar areas the data will stop working entirely and I will have to power cycle to get it to work. I also have an issue where it takes forever for my phone to find any wifi spots. I have to toggle wifi off and on and airplane mode to finally get it to work. I've tried a lot of troubleshooting. I've turned VOLTE on and off, I've reset the phone, reset network settings, swapped sim cards at a Verizon store, nothing seems to work. I've also updated to iOS 8.0.2 with no improvement. This happens in the Northern Virginia area (Fairfax).

MKD4, I am sorry to hera that you are having these troubles with your new phone! I appreciate all that you have tried to get the phone up and running as it should. I haven't heard of others in this area having similar issues. Since you have tried all the steps that we would ask you to try, what I would maybe suggest is to replace the device.
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