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3 bars or less most places. Very slow data reception. Dropped internet connections or can't connect. Repeatedly tried servicing our 4 phones. Same terrible service for 3 years. Recently a friend did RF field strength neasurements in Hampton Cove, Jones Valley, UAH, downtown, medical district, and Costco. Everywhere measures -80 to -100. In most cities you get -50 to -70. ATT is purposely underpowering all towers in Huntsville. Even 50 yards from the cell tower located at the University ATT store, the signal is -84, and it should be -60. They won't tell me why they run such a weak signal in this city. It's very strange. Alabama is their stepchild They keep promising improvements and do nothing. We are gradually switching to Verizon as contracts expire. Will have to sell several ATT iphones on eBay. I recommend NEVER signing a contract with ATT if you di business or live in Huntsville.

Reception is spotty. I ALWAYS drop calls in the area crossing over the hill on Mountain Gap Road. (We call that the "dead zone" around here.) Our neighbors use Verizon and have no problems whatsoever.

usually no more than 1 bar 3G... . frequently 3 or 4 bars non-3G. dropped calls and very slow data. forget about Words With Friends or other apps

Have had horrible coverage for over a month. Significant delay time before calls start ringing the majority of the time. Coverage very spotty, frequently drop calls. Took to store, they said Sim card and replaced. No relief. Same thing happens with other AT&t phones next to mine. Store reps denied any significant problems with network. I insisted on help, they said call customer service. Customer service admitted issue with towers, said new towers being added (should have been working properly a week ago but still same issues). They did credit me with acceptable financial compensation (assuming the issues were resolved a week ago). Giving them a few more days before I give up and just buy contract out. They will lose significantly in the long run.

The bad signal in this area is temporary because of the April 27 tornados messed up one of the towers in the area resulting of it being offline due to repairs.

Frequently have no service in and around Redstone Arsenal and often have calls dropped while driving on 565.

Even with an AT&T store 3 miles away on Airport Road, service is spotty at best on Fouche, Sewall, and the entire Glendale subdivision. A different excuse every week.

My wife and I moved to Huntsville, AL from Oklahoma where we had excellent AT&T coverage (voice and data). The AT&T coverage and data here is terrible. I wish that I had waited on buying my Captivate and now I'm stuck for the next 2 years with this terrible coverage before I can switch providers.

I bought an iPhone 4 for my wife last week and therefore had to purchase att&t service. I'm very unimpressed with att&t reception. Although, I realize the iPhone has a well known problem with reception, I can't believe anyone would keep one if their experience was as bad as ours. At home, at work on RSA, and many other places in Huntsville, we are unable to keep a call going for more than 30 seconds. The phone is going back this week and I'm canceling the att&t service.

ATT useless, cannot connect at home, drops calls, failed calls. It never ever works at home, I am changing soon. I am fed up with it, I had 5 bars in Denver and could not make a call, it wold try forever and drop. Useless, utterly useless.

I've had a cell phone since they were in they beginning stages, first with Bell South, then it became Cingular, then it became AT&T. I'm have a problem with dropped calls in my house no signal or one bar in my house and one bar in my yard. I live between two towers which are both less than a mile away from me. I pay for four phones on my contract and am responsible for 7 phones that family and friends have signed up for with AT&T through the years that they still have. My phone will get four bars in the middle of nowhere in a pine thicket in central western Alabama, but can't get reception in my yard or home long enough to keep a conversation going. My daughter called about a problem with her phone and also asked about my reception. The agent she talked to let the secret of red towers (down for service) and yellow towers (being repaired) out of the bag. I called AT&T and they have a "what's the problem / so what" attitude and offered to sell me a $149 booster to use with my cable internet. I've had cell phones with this cameleon of a company for 12+ years and until AT&T took over they worked fine. Enough is enough. I'm probably going to switch to Verizon as my daughter and son-in-law want. If I go that means they will loose at least 11 phones. AT&T has gotten to big for their britches. If you want to get hot, call AT&T service and try to get something done.

My family and I are on AT&T and we are very displeased with the service here. The reception used to be very good and I did not have many dropped calls, but recently it has been the exact opposite. I don't even get clear reception in my house and I have had too many dropped calls to count. It's the same situation at most of my friends' houses. We have had enough so my sister and I cancelled our contract 2 months before it ended and are switching to Verizon (just waiting for our new phones to come in). My parents are switching to Verizon as well. I will post my review of Verizon once after I get a chance to test their service out.

Poor Reception in my home, on Southview, and in the area. Cannot get a signal along Indian Creek near the traffic circle or even on top of the overpasses on Resarch Park Blvd. Have had this problem with Verizon and Cingular. Thing is I can see a cell tower from the back of my home, must be another service than what I use.

Reception on the bluff of Green Mountain only. Interior has no Cingular coverage.

Had good reception with AT&T. However, ever since AT&T merged with Cingular, reception and call quality have been poor --- dropped calls, bad reception, etc.

I have to walk into my dining room to get two bars (that do not go away if I move the phone around) to talk. I can get 3-4 bars in other rooms but they disappear as soon as I move the phone. I get 2-3 bars if I walk outside and up to the mailbox. Does anyone know of a Cingular phone that gets GREAT reception?

Phone is generally unusable in the residence unless on the second floor. Cingular needed to commit to providing more tower resources sooner when they decided to make the transition to GSM. I can't drop my landline due to this, which is why I switching vendors. (Southview Dr.)

I don't know if it is the phone or the phone company. Had better than average reception in Houston (my home area) but the reception in Huntsville, Alabama is poor all over the city on the Cingular network.

Surprisingly poor reception (often, none at all) on Monte Sano Mountain near the southern intersection of Monte Sano Blvd. and Panorama Drive. Reception is generally non-existent along the portion of Monte Sano Blvd. between Panorama Dr.and Governor's Drive.

Reception is horrible. I'm lucky to get one bar and have to keep moving around from area to area to get that. It's almost impossible to have a conversaton when the signal fades out so often.