As jerf mentioned in the sibling comment, it appears my experience is not representative. I also had the Moto G, first generation? I had it for about a year and a half. Maybe I screwed something up in my settings too. I definitely would love to have had a different experience! I can't comment on why the things happened as they did. But for whatever reason on my phone I definitely had a bunch of issues. Maybe there was an issue with the radio hardware on mine? Not sure.