Verizon iPhone(s) reception

It's whacky, but I've a problem with 3 Verizon iPhones at my company.
Our company phones are a mixture of Sprint and Verizon with a plethora of personal devices and carriers.
Cell reception inside the building was unacceptable so the decision was made to install a repeater/signal amplifier.
For the most part, the effort has supplied spectacular results --- Except for the Verizion iPhones.
I can place a Verizon iPhone next to a Verizon Motorola, the Motorola gets great reception, the iPhone acts like the repeater was never installed.
The handfull of ATT and Sprint iPhones are just as happy as the androids, great signal reception.
Not so with the Verizon iPhones.
I suspect the issue is more with Verizon's configuration than the phone, but it could be mechanical with the CDMA iPhones.
Anyone have an idea where to start, or to resolve what I'm hoping is a simple (if obsure) configuration setting?
Thanks in advance!

WOW, 
Had a talk with the "head genius" at the local Apple store -- best I can say is he was blowing smoke at me.  Suggested either I try shutting down the phones and letting them re-aquire the signal (sort of over ruled by the other iPhones in house) or to check the LTE setting was ON.  I'm not sure how the data side of the phone would effect the voice but I guess it might be possible, stuck me as funny the other suggestion was a Bill Gates "alt, ctrl, del" reboot!
I did try both suggestions, absolutely no change in the symptoms.
Next stop was the local Verizon store -- Initial sales guy at least listened to the issue and got the store manager involved. Neither had an idea (and probably though I was the one smoking a controlled substance) untill another sales accociate piped up and said "Oh yea, happened to my parents"  Her mom's iPhone is a paper weight at the house, her dad's Droid is rock solid.  Generic signal booster was no help, her parents had to resort to a Verizon IP network based cell extender.
Unbelieveable! Not sure if the issue is burried in the Verizon specific hardware changes in their iPhones or the Verizon specific software configuration but at least I'm not the only victim of the problem.
I wish a generic iPhone reconfigured for Verizon was a viable option, probably more trouble than it's worth and I'm not willing to buy a an over the counter iPhone just to test the theory.  Sigh.
The hunt continues.

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