When I had Verizon, it was very poor. Cingular with the Razor phone is great in same location.

Service Drifts in and out. After quoting their coverage map that says I should have good coverage at my home ( which works about 20% of the time / and no 3G service) I filed serveral complaints and they finally told me to return the phone and find another carrier. Customer service had no explaination as to why service is so poor. Unable to speak to tech to trouble shoot. Poor service, poor follow up and no interest in improving service in this area. Avoid unless you love frustration.

Had to go outside of my home to get reception and even then I had to stand in one place or the call would be dropped. Do not recommend!

It is embarrassing how bad Cingular service (busness line) is from Pima north of the 101. I have little if no reception and when I do the quality is awful. My personal phone is a Samsung T629 on T-Mobile and in the same area is perfect.

My Verizon service in N Scottsdale (Mcdowell Mt Ranch and DC Ranch) is generally very good. However, we were in a temp apartment near 76th St. and Thompson Pk last summer (Grayhawk area) and it was spotty in the apartment. So there may be some dead spots too. Am checking the reviews to switch my family off of Qwest. After seeing all these negative reviews (man, didn't know I had it so good with Verizon!), I may have to think twice about this (Qwest is just pi&^%ing me off with their billing problems).

Signal changes from 0 - 5 bars

Business made me switch from T-Mobile which was generally excellent in Phoenix and Scottsdale to Cingular, which is clearly not as good. Seems like Cingular shows bars but then has trouble connecting or drops. I am in industry and think issue is capacity (Cingular gets very bad as rush hour, etc). Most of my friends in telco business generally think that Verizon and T-Mobile are best in Phoenix and Scottsdale and that Sprint is clear worst. As for the complaints in North Scottsdale (North of 101, this is largely a function of Scottsdale's unwillingness to allow towers. The GSM carriers (Cingular and T-Mobile) seem to do better (just added a tower at Pima near Princess) but it is very ad hoc -- try a phone at your house first. I have friends that have zero bars at home which sucks.

Reception at home is spotty at best. Signal fades and calls are missed. Travel in and out of area means dropped calls and switching from digital to roaming. Would not recommend. Bought phones at Radio Shack two years ago. Service there was a joke. Looking at other 85259 posts seems as if we're in a third world reception area.

this area is a disaster for 4 years of complaints we have nothing to show for it. Where else can we complain?

Good coverage in this area