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The service for AT&T is amazing The only thing I don't like is how expensive it is It has fast data uploads, and great service

Used to have excellent reception - but it has become almost non existent in last 6 months

In Blenman, North of Speedway and West of Tucson, the reception at our house is terrible. At best intermittent.

I've been with AT&T for years and had no problem with reception until I moved East on Tanque Verde. Now I have zero reception in or out of my home. In the last three to four months I now loose reception on Kolb, Valencia and Wilmont. I have tried to get AT&T to fix or at least give me a reason and all they tell me is that they are working on some of their towers and it could be a while before it is completed. I find this hard to swallow... . I am now checking for a new carrier... .

In the 3 years I lived in this location, I never managed to complete a call inside my house. I had to stand outside to talk on the phone - and even then I'd drop calls regularly. Awful, awful reception and it got worse when I "upgraded" to the iphone 3g from my dumb phone in 2009.

I visit family regularly in this area. For the past four years AT&T reception in the neighborhood has been nonexistent, and the family in town switched from AT&T to Verizon to get 3 bars of reception. I got a Verizon pay phone for the same reason. I visited again after Christmas 2010 and discovered a huge difference. Now I'm getting 3 to 5 bars consistently on AT&T -- 1 bar better than the Verizon coverage -- with the same phones. I suspect either AT&T lit up a new tower in the area or reoriented an existing one. I am now very happy with the AT&T service in this area. PS - I also compared AT&T and Verizon coverage along my trip, specifically from Las Vegas to Tucson. I discovered that the coverage areas and signal strengths are almost identical everywhere I checked, with the exception of south Tucson / Vail, and this has now apparently been addressed by AT&T.

located one block west of campbell, one block north of glenn. within apartment I get either SOS or the rare 1 bar. walking out into the middle of the street I get 1 bar at best. If I'm willing to drive to a "hotspot" it can improve all the way up to 5, sure. That's stupid. Totally defeats the point of having a mobile phone. My ancient Nokia never had these problems ever. Based on what I've read and how they've rated, it's the network not the users who is the problem, and I believe that constitutes a violation of the service contract. Time to see what my options are. Folks seem to like T-Mobile (in this area). Thank you for providing this resource to us. User feedback beats crappy corporate marketing any day of the week.

No phone reception 90% of the time in or out of the house. Sometimes 1 bar just long enough to make call or receive call, then drop it. Had flawless coverage in Colorado. Very disappointed. I can only make calls using my Vonage app. on my cable wireless at home. Strangely, I usually seem to have adequate data service, though slower than I am used to. Definitely in a black hole out here.

no reception in my house unless I use the MicroCell which I paid $250 to get reception in my house. Can't wait until Verizona gets the iphone.

I've had AT&T since 2007, and it has been poor service. I drop a call more days than not, and have difficulty hearing the other person, or vice-versa, which is just as bad or worse when they mistake what they thought they heard on a business call. I live by the U of A, and each time school starts up, service gets terrible for a month or two. If I can get a bar at all, my calls often get dropped. Recently, my phone dropped a call at least 5 times during the same conversation. I gave up and found a land line. Web browsing has been so slow, that I don't do it very often. I use to have Sprint (before my company went with AT&T), and lost only two calls in two years, while driving between two large foothills. Used the web browser all the time on that phone, and tethered to my laptop. I'm throwing in the towell on AT&T.

THis is second week i'm travelling to Santa Fe and plans to relocate by next month. I'm staying in Hilton, downtown and there is no reception in my room at all. This is same in many places in the town. I'm thinking od breaking the contract with AT&T and planning to go for T mobile.

The coverage map indicates my location as being within "moderate" range but it's really much worse. Almost never get 2 bars and if so, it's fleeting.

More dropped calls with AT&T in the first week than with Sprint for the duration of my contract (2 years). Should have waited for verison to get the iphone. I won't be renewing my AT&T contract even with the 25% discount I receive from work.

At UMC, where coverage is important when waiting for patients to come our of surgery, there are zero ATT bars inside, and even outside in front of the main entrance, not enough signal strength to hold a call. This is in any area when many people on other networks are making calls.

It depends on what part of the house. 5 in the middle of the house. My office a 2-3.

I have had Sprint and AT&T in Tucson. In comparing these, I have to say Sprint was the better carrier, but I had to watch my bill with them, and not assume that everything was right. However, I rarely had connectivity issues. AT&T: I ONLY have AT&T because I haven't jailbroken my iPhone, and am impatiently waiting for the contract to expire, or for Apple to license another provider. I used to live at Kolb and Sahuarta, and while they CLAIMED that I could get good coverage there, it was so intermittent that there is no way I could have survived without a landline. Ex: I would get calls, and it would go directly into voicemail, and I wouldn't even recieve notification of the call until I drove into an area with better reception. Kind of negates the point of having a phone. Now that I live in town, I have to periodically update my network settings, as I get kicked out of service for some reason. Also, in general, poor building penetration. Finally, the customer service people suck up to the point where it's almost embarassing to hear them grovel. Don't kiss my butt, give me better service! Come on, end of contract!

I dont know how all these people complain about at and t so much. Maybe I just got a good phone. Never had a problem inside or out. Also drove from tucson to Phoenix listening to Pandora Internet radio with no problem the whole way. I think AT and T is good. Maybe in big cities like New York there are problems but for tucson and phoenix never had a problem.

ATT service blows chunks. It has no building penetration whatsoever. Services goes in and out all the time. I cannot wait until my contract is up, the only reason I went to them was for the Iphone - BIG Mistake!

AT&T blows in my house. There is no better way to put it. They are terrible. I only get reception in a few key corners of my house and still I get dropped calls all the time. People need to unite and fight this terrible corporation.

only good signal on second floor. 1st floor spotty and often drop / miss calls. blackberry is better than iphone though.

Inside my house, most of the time my iPhone will say "No Service" and if I can get one bar to receive a call, if I stay inside it will drop within a minute or two. I frequently have to go outside in order to talk on the phone. If it does drop a call, it takes a few minutes once I'm outside for the connection with a tower to reset. I've complained at least 7 or 8 times to AT&T but to no avail. They say towers are coming near me but I can't wait until my contract is up.

In my house I can only get a signal in a few places and those locations are not consistant. I had Sprint and Alltel before my company changed to AT&T and both worked well in any part of my home. I have been complaining to AT&T since September of 2007. They keep saying they are improving their sites, but my reception doesn't change. I had an AT&T Blackberry Bold and a Curve before the iPhone and had the same problems.

Terrible service, absolutely terrible. Have never lived anywhere in the US where coverage is so poor and then spotty at best. I'll leave my house, drive a mile and a half south and then get all kinds of alerts for emails, texts and most importantly voicemails. AT&T needs to step up to the plate and provide the quality of coverage / service I pay for (dearly) every month. My backyard backs up to a wash (my property). Come build a tower there. All the health warnings are nonsense. Just make sure it looks like a century plant or a suguaro!

Finally! I began getting a better signal since last summer. Also has to do with phone. I had a Tilt before and only average about 1-2 bars. I'll tried the Tilt recently and still 1-2 bars. So try using different phones to achieve a better signal in this area.

Have 3G and Edge conection all around and inside the house. No problems whatsoever...

ATT has been OK but not great past 11 months, as of Friday no servce. New SIM card, calls to customer support not yet resolved 3 days later.

I am a student at the unversity of arizona and I have no service in my dorm room

So far, I haven't had any real problems with AT&T, despite all the negative remarks I've read about their service. I don't know if I'm just using my phone in the 'wrong' (or right) places, but so far I get at least 4 bars, even in the car. I switched from Sprint, and the experience is night and day. I seldom had over 1 bar with that phone and service, often my calls would drop.

No bars inside first floor of house, get better coverage upstairs or in backyard standing by south wall. Talking on the phone while riding in our car is extremely hit or miss as well. Courier indicated it was the ups and downs of the landscape in Oro Valley.

Spent 4 hours at this location, never got any reception while the guy across from me with a Verizon phone was making and receiving calls the entire time. Also there is no or very little reception in this entire area of town. This is a commercial area, also lots of doctor offices... there is no excuse for this! Another bad area is Ajo, Valencia and further South along the I-19. No reception there either.

no signal,no service,no bars,no text in or out.At the most I get 1 / 8 of a bar, good phone If you never go home?took 2 months to get it down to a science,moved back to la reserve no signal,in washington state great phone

Switched to ATT in Jul (iPhone) from Verizon. Verizon was super ALL over town. ATT is poor. I mostly use on NE and south side of town. What really piques my curiosity is that I can go from 4 bars to No Serice and back within a few minutes in the same location!?!?

I was an AT&T customer for 3 yrs and then through the duration of Cingular. Now that it is AT&T again I'm dumping this service for lack of service!! I would have a drop call now and again with Cingluar but NEVER lost service in Tucson. Now, since the end of August, I have have periods of time up to 19.6 hours of no service what so ever, and this was even driving around the city. I used to have service in my home and now I do not at all. The service on UA campus sucks as well. I recommended a person to Cingular(AT&T) because I had service on campus and of late neither one of us do. I know 3 other people that are experiencing the same lack of service. When you call AT&T they say it's your phone. How can it be your phone when others are experiencing this as well????? Oh yeah, I've been to ND, MN, DC, TX, GA and Italy since August and my phone picked up service in all areas--even on the island of Capri, so you can't tell me it's my phone... ... ... To bad too, I racked up some hefty international bills over the past few years so I'm taking my money and loyalty elsewhere. I'm tired of seeing other people walking and driving around and being able to use their cell phone!!

Absolutely horrid reception just north of campus. I switched from Verizon in June, and cannot believe how bad the coverage is in this large city! Speedway is spotty. Grant, forget about it. On campus is great, but surrounding campus is terrible. Reminds me of cell carriers in the mid '90s! I've returned to Verizon.

Excellent support from AT&T store nearby. But inconsistent coverage. Hopefully the corporate office can support the local store.

The area Between Irvington Rd.down to Valencia Rd.and from Mission road to I-19 is hit and miss. This area is going in businesses and is full of homes. But does AT&T care?

Just switched from Sprint to get iPhone. Sprint was awesome, AT&T just plain sucks. Poor to no-service in my home, where Sprint would show all bars.

Had AT&T. June 2005 was asked by AT&T to switch to Cingular. New phone Motorola V551 using GSM. Told that service would be better with GSM. 2007 went to Cingular / AT&T and they downloaded new files to the phone. In the two years with current phone we have seen only a deteriation of the service to the point where we have to turn of the phone to prevent the phone from looking for network. Is GSM really the future of wireless or should we change to a carrier that is using TDMA or CDMA?

Cingular now AT&T is the worst sevice provider I have ever had. Dropped calls all over the city of Tucson. Callers seldom get through when they call me and I don't recieve there messages for 3 to 4 days after they call. Good bye AT&T, I am going back to Verizon.

Still having problems near this area. According to the sales store nearby new towers have been put in place but only cover about a half mile north. The coverage map in this area is misleading. AT&T should recheck this area. Many customers near this area are planning to leave for the same reason I will (Most I work with). We have been told this area will improve year after year and the last upgrade was around 2005 when Cingular to over. Only the name changed, but no service improvement. Very questional service in the Walmart and Lowe's nearby, but works great at the same type stores around town so it is not the building cutting out the signals.

Lost service at my home this weekend can not make or receive calls. Service returns around Kolb and Broadway. Even with new 3G sim cards. Bye Bye ATT

LOTS of drop outs and disconnects. When it works it works great but when it does not, I have to use my Verizon RAZR. 4 dropped calls between 7am and noon today on the Cingular phone.

Reception is non-existant in any stores (Wal-mart, Lowe's, Home Depot, grocery stores and probably tents! Outside, reception is average. Inside my home is the same as the store situation above. Have a Motorola RAZR L7 and not impressed with it either!

I hate cinglur had AT&T and then they change have no reseption at home. Have droped calles all the time everywhere.

The coverage map on Cingular's website is not true in the Tucson Area. It is ashame that I can not use my phone in certain building or stores. Yet other carriers seem to work better.

All over Tucson is a bad area for The New AT&T aka "Cingular" wireless service. They know it, but seem not to care. The last time any upgrades to towers were made was a few years ago. When asking any customer service person they will tell you that they are putting up towers all over (but not in Arizona of course). If you ask them if they plan on upgrading there system here in Tucson they'll say of course hopefully by the end of the year. There now has been too many years and I'm still waiting. This service works great in my house but when I leave it the signal goes up and down. I don't drop calls because I can not make any. If you read Cingular News Press you'll read how much money is being spent elsewhere, but not here.

Wow! I can't believe all the bad mouthing about Cingular. I have used Cingular for over two years without a problem. However, there are definitately a few dead spots (like Wal-Mart and Home Depot) where reception drops from 5 to 1 bar (sometimes zero). My wife has the exact same phone and she doesn't experience any dead areas at all. Even when we are standing side-by-side at the same location, her reception will be perfect where I cant make a call. Sounds like a phone problem to me and nothing to do with Cingular. In my home I always have five bars and I live in a steel frame house. Personally, I've used four different carriers over the years. Cingular is the only carrier out of the four where I have never had a dropped call. I like Cingular and love the rollover minutes.

Have had Cingular for years - it only gets worse - poor reception, dropped calls regularly on a daily basis - I will be switching services very soon. False advertising - fewest dropped calls - right... .

I know that you can get bad reception inside buildings, homes and blocked by mountans and hills but in this area there are hills about 7 miles away and I get crappy reception. The Cingular store which is nearby has great reception inside the store so I figured this area was excellent for service. Good thing I have 30 days to return this phone.

At this intersection I may get between 2 through 3 bars but when I get home two blocks from this intersection the bars down to 1 or no service. The same happens inside the Walmart or Lowes near that intersections. There are no towers nearby and the closes one is near the airport which is about 6 miles away. The airport has 3 Cingular towers around it. About a mile and a half away there is a Cingular store (with great reception inside only) then drops once you leave. I have repeatly spoken to the customer service about the poor reception about this and they tell me that the area gets moderate coverage and there are no plans to put a tower or repeater nearby anytime soon. If you work or live in this area and have the same issues please voice your concerns. I have switched many phones so I know it is the cell sevice that is the problem.

We kept Cingular when we moved from Washington state because we heard that they had better reception down in Tucson. NOT TRUE! Drops calls all over Tucson area and is not consistent on where it drops the calls. Sometimes I can call in an area but the next time... parked in the same parking lot... NO LUCK! Well we are finally fed up and despite our very low phone bill, I will be ecstatic to switch {and tell them so too... and anyone else who will listen!} The person who said that they sucked a certain non favorable body part was entirely in his right mind.

We've experienced lots of dropped calls with Cingular. We recently moved to the Broadway / Pantano area and do not get good reception in or around our house. This was also a problem when we lived on the west side of town at Speedway / Silverbell. We called Cingular to see what they could do to help, but received no help. Now, we either have to pay to get out of the service plan, get a landline or upgrade to phones that may or may not work. Strange thing is that my sister (who is often at our house) has T-Mobile and never has dropped calls or poor reception.

We get 0 to 1 in the house. You have to go outside to get enough bars to send a text. And, you gotta get in the car and drive out to Valencia to get enough bars to make a call. Most of my daughter's friends can come to our house and use their Alltell and Cricket phones. This is very inconvenient for us. We were told in February that Cingular would be installing up to 100 towers in Tucson area by year end. From reading the posts on here about Cingular, I am thinking they lied. As soon as contract is up, I am dropping them. Tin cans with string work better than Cingular. As for their advertising, instead fo touting best results for not dropping calls, it should be "you can't drop a call that you never received." Maybe I should go in to advertising!?

Can't use my phone inside my house. 20 feet from house service is only in the OK category. I fired Alltel in favor of Cingular and in two months I'll do what most of my friend have done - switch to Verizon. Cingular and GSM is great in major metropolitan areas but!!

Driving in this area is truly a hassle. Cingular works in every other state with no problem.

We get very poor reception inside our house and have to go out in the backyard to make calls. Long distance calls are the worst - they drop off after only a few minutes. It's a pity, since we are paying for national service but can't use it. Cingular customer service justs shrugs us off, saying there is very diverse coverage in our neighborhood.

Cingular (AKA ATT) has the worst reception in the UA area I have ever experienced. Calls are consistantly dropped on Campbell between Grant and I-10 on both mine and my wifes (Brand new phones). Cingular lost my buisness to Verizon when three calls to their "TECH" line resulted in substandard explinations for such poor reception. I honestly had better reception on my analog phone in the early 90's! Cingular really needs to get their act together.

Don't know what good this does, I can only hope Cingular executives read this. If there was a better alternative, I might switch. Service north of Sunrise along Craycroft / Kolb... forgetaboutit! No service along Sunrise west of Craycroft until Swan. Dropped calls consistently along Orange Grove around Orange Grove Middle School and east of 1st Ave. Barely any coverage on 1st Ave from Orange Grove south to River Road. Broadway Blvd! HORRIBLE coverage! Cingular needs to get busy and put up repeaters and towers around town NOW! Maybe a class action suit would get Cingular's attention!?

My calls get dropped 75% of the time, when I drive through this area. They should add a repeater in this location.

I have had Cingular since AT&T sold out to them. I have never been more disappointed since that day. When I first heard that Cingular and AT&T were merging, I was kind of excited, roll-over. However, after close to two years of dropped calls, horrible service and them telling me I need to buy a new phone to get roll-over, I am through. One would think that since they acquired AT&T, that their coverage would be untouchable, and it should. For it to get worse, unacceptable. I do not want to here that their equipment is not compatable, reprogram it. My contract with them just in this month(September 2006), I am deciding between Verizon and T-Mobile. I am surpised that Cingular is still in Business. The phone I used was great. I will never go back to Cingular.

Can't make a call without walking across the street. Real convenient for those late night booty calls.

Dropped calls all the time. Occasional call to someone on my contact list and end up connected to someone else's conversation (NOT the person on my contact list that is listed on my phone screen) No service in most of my house and a lot of areas of Tucson. I complained a lot and eventually they let me out of my contract so I switched to Verizon. So far so good. Much better service.

I live in Rita Ranch and I get only 1 bar. The slogan about raising the bar does not apply here and for what I can see most of Tucson.

Must go outside to make or receive calls that are then usually dropped. Awful.

I switched my phone from old ATT to Cingular GSM in April. At first I got a Motorola RAZR. Reception was terrible. The RAZR just does NOT work on Cingular. Switched to a Sony Ericsson Z520 and it works much better.

Cingular sucks. I'm a former AT&T customer. Two months after dropping $400 on my phone those jerk weeds told me I would have to buy a new one to be on the "Cingular" network. I told them to bite me. Half the time I have no service in my house. I may set up a fire pit in my backyard and start sending smoke signals which is light years better than no signal.

Serivce is non-existant in the house and only usable in the front yard area. I will not be renewing and looking to find a way out early... Continuously dropping calls while driving. Not a mobile service. It's no wonder I have nearly 10,000 rollover minutes... .can't make any calls.

I wish I never went with Cingular. Worst service that I have had in Tucson in 6 years. Assured that their serivce would mach the old AT&T service... not event close.

just got 3rd replacement after two 551 failed to work in the house, the 557 works OK indoors...

On a good day I can Get maybe 2-3 bars of signal in this area. When I am at the local Lowe's or Walmart I seem to be the only person who can't use my phone because of limited coverage. This area is growing with new homes and businesses. It would be nice to see a new tower to support the area. But from what I read below it will not happen soon. Time to look at a new carrier.

I switched over to Cingular from AT&T last year in June 2005. I was told from the sales office near my area the a new tower was going to be installed nearby the end of the summer to improved the signal strength (which I am getting between 1 to sometimes 3 bars). The summer ended and no tower. I was then told the end of the year. But nothing. I stop by the office to inquiry and this time I was told by this July but another sales person said she had heard by the end of the year. Good thing my contract is ending at the end of June. One good this about Cingular it works great between Tucson and Yuma and Tucson and El Paso which I visit. It also works great in Mexico and automatically switches to their carriers. To bad it does not in my area.

Dropped calls everywhere especially Ina / Pima Canyon Rd. and at home. Today, thunderstorm, no service at all for the last 6 hours.

this has to be one of the worst servive lve had.in one night l got 15 drop calls,one after another.l have to be outside to get some reception.l feel l been decieved by the company they promise me a tower will be comming up in june.this l have to see.their voicemail,you have to tell your caller to leave the time and date they are are calling.because you will not get it from them.as much as they are buiding in this area (be warn do not by cinguler )l had better reception with cricket,until l went over to valecia and camino de oeste

No reception in house on E. Miramar. Have Alltel service to use at home and keeping Cingular for international capability. Very disapointed with service by Cingular office on Broadway.

My Cingualar service is totally rediculous! In my apartment I have to grab my phone and run by either the kitchen window or go outside. Otherwise my calls get dropped. And the company's modo states, " fewer dropped calls". Yeah sure. I've been with this company for several years. About 3-4 years before AT&T merged with Cingular. I've tried different phones and nothing helps. where at? Select locations?

Cingular is the worst service provider I've ever used. I don't even get service in my apartment!

Cingular has no service, just a name. We had AT&T wireless, which had problems, but nothing like now. Dropped calls, network failure,no signal or reception, sometimes for hours. Customer service is always polite but never any help. They all follow the same line, nothing is wrong in your area, it must be your phone, a tower is out. I have four Samsung x426 and one Nokia 6340i phones, all have the same problems. I have a friend who is located in the Swan and FT. Lowell area who upgraded to Motorola RAZR phones and is still having the same problems. Cingular may be ok in some areas, but definately not here. Even a locale Cingular store employee said that they had to install Qwest landlline where they live, to have any reliable phone service.

I used to have AT&T, excellent. My phone broke and the Cingular salesman pushed the Cingular service and phone. Terrible. No service at my home and when I do get it in the car, most of my calls are dropped. Customer service told me, "the phone has to find a new tower when you move around and can sometimes drop calls" Excuse me, aren't these called "mobile phones" so that you CAN move around? I will be breaking my contract as soon as I research other carriers... . not if, but when.

Occasional reception, both texts and voicemail can take up to 2-3 hours to hit phone.

I was with ATT for years and NEVER had a problem of any kind. When I swiched to CRapular there was one problem after another. dropped calls or the line going blank but minutes still accumulating. They sent me replacement hansets for both lines 3 times and it was only the same modle and will not discount another phone for me or will only send me the same modle phone I have been having problems with. After I told them I was going to end my contract if they didnt help me they wouldnt budge. so goodby Crapular! anyone thinking of going with them think again there customer service is terrible!

My expereience with Cingular in Tucson hasn't been all that bad, pretty consistent fair to good coverage all over Tucson, with some noteable exceptions: weak reception (sometimes) on east Broadway, Old Spanish Trail near Cmno Loma Alto, River near Flowing wells park. But really, overall not bad, and my family, nationwide plan is comparatively inexpensive.

Low signal strength in Foothills area. Usually get 2-3 bars at home in Finisterra (unless blocked by a hill in which case there is no signal strength). 2-3 bars is enough to get good reception, but I only get this in certain locations at home.

Have to go on front porch to get good reception. Elsewhere, no problem. Will try a new phone soon.

Better than Verizon in home. Transmission was poor on old ATT Wireless network. New Cingular network seems to work good on this phone.

Cingular is really great, even in Tucson. Sprint, on the other hand, really sucks both with their cell phone lack of service and their really crappy broadband internet service, if you can call it service. Most doesn't work. Of course cable is just as bad.

I moved from Puerto Rico a few month ago. I brought my Cingular phone with me and reception is great. Sometimes I cant make calls but it is the cellphone fault (old). I will renew contract to get new phone.

Great coverage on and around the base. I only loose reception inside of our Base Exchange Store, Commissary and a few of our older (concrete / steel framed buildings). At home, 5 bars canstant and a very good Bluetooth connectivity. This is a new phone and I will be driving around Tucson to some of the "bad spots" listed on this site.

Could not complete a call with the Sony-Ericson. A Nokia 6010 on the same service usually works, with some garbling, but no dropped calls.

Awful reception from LaCanada after McGee northward. Drops call more than connects from there on out.

Awful reception from LaCanada after McGee northward. Drops call more than connects from there on out.

the only place this phone works is at the Cingular booth in the tucson mall RIPP OFF!

Cingular drops calls constantly -my office is just east of the Hilton Hotel-Got a Verizon phone now and I've had zero dropped calls in this area and I live in Vail and am having the same excellent response with my new Verizon phone. I left Verizon to go to Cingular 6 months ago and the service with Cingular has gone from OK to horrible. I can talk on my phone from Broadway / Pantano go east to Old Spanish Trail, continue past Del Lago, go South on Wentworth, East on the frontage road to Hwy. 83, to Sahuarita Rd and have PERFECT reception the whole way on the Verizon Phone(model V710).

I'm still on the AT&T network. Everytime I pass The Woods Apts on W. Valencia, the call ALWAYS drops. Also when I talking to my boyfriend on his V551 (AT&T) the reception sucks. The sound always breaks up.

At my home, the phone shows 4 bars, so supposedly I'm getting good reception, but calls get dropped all the time. People have a hard time hearing me or understanding me, too. (And I don't have a speech impediment, either!) Moved to Cingular from AT and T after their merger and am not particularly pleased with them.

I have had many phone services but Cingular is absolutely without question the poorest reception of any phone service in Tucson no matter where you are. Dropped calls all over town as we drive. Standing in Wallmart and watching a kid talk on Verison while we cannot even get on tick ! I do not recommend this service to anyone that lives in Tucson and who need to be on the road.

IF... that is IF I have reception here (my own home) it is one bar. Lousy reception elsewhere, too.

Cingular service is not a good wireless provider even though they claim they have a "All Over Network" in thier marketing. They say they merged but still require to buy new Cingular phones if you choose to migrate over, which is crap. You can't even buy ATT wireless phones or parts at the local The New Cingular Store anymore. They have bad customer service and sell crap phones like the Motorola V220. Take my advice and go the Verizon route. Better phones without the confusing merger crap to deal with.