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This is the second year I've come to this area and had bad service. Have one bar. AT&T claims I'm in the middle of 3 towers. Ha! Had great signal at the phone center store where the rep took out my battery and then put it back in. Very slow internet over the mobile network and dropped calls even before it connects.

Im lucky if I get one bar sometimes it says no service. AT&T is terrible

I have no reception in the house or even when I go outside. Service is terrible on this side of town.

Recently switched to Cingular from Qwest. Never had a problem with Qwest. Cingular has been a nightmare, and it's the worst in my home. I made the mistake of going exclusively with a cell and dropping the landline. Talking in my home now is near impossible. Constant dropped calls. The person on the other end of the line gets very poor reception causing me to have to call back frequently. Cingular rep stated "it's the nature of the beast". My response was "why does the beast live in my house". Cingular service is nonexsistent, no call backs when promised and the store will not help. The in store reps tell me I have to call customer service which I find unacceptable, especially when I am told the problem will be looked into and then never hear another word. Unfortunately for me I'm stuck with this bad service for another year and a half. Very very dissappointed with Cingular in the Phoenix area. I cringe everytime I see one of their blatantly misleading commercials. I would strongly recommend steering clear of Cingular.

I had great reception in Southern California with AT&T. When I moved to far northwest Phoenix, it was terrible in the house. I switched over to the Cingular network, it didn't help. I have to go outside to make calls which is always fun when it is 110 degrees. Complaints to Cingular tech support are a waste of time. The local store did let me borrow a Razor to see if I got better reception with it, but it only improved to 2 bars instead of one or the always exciting Emergency Service Only. I actually live in the middle of the block on Soft Wind Dr. between 45th and 47th Avenues. Reception improves once I start traveling east down Pinnacle Peak, or get past Thunderbird Park into the Arrowhead Lakes area or go north to Happy Valley. Neighbors with Verizon don't have these problems. As soon as my plan is up this fall, I will be switching, but only to a company that lets me test a phone at my home first.

In neighborhood behind intersection reception is horrendous with many dropped calls, and extremely delayed messages.

Signal fades on any conversation over 5 minutes. loss of signal while traveling on Union Hills, (67th ave). Horrible reception around 67th Ave and Happy Valley

Cingular calls get dropped, chopped, garbled in this location

I can make and receive calls here at my house, but it will drop calls a lot and a lot of times when talking people will say they can't here me while I can still here them good. Very frustrating. Network is Quad-band GSM.