Inside my house or outside my house the reception is poor. Oddly, enough the best reception seems to be in my hallway. My hallway is in the center of my home with the peak of the roof directly overhead. The particular phone in use has an internal antennae, which I'm sure does not help. What little reception is available does seem to fluctuate with the weather. Any storm or heavy weather will shift or manipulate the best reception areas. I am currently looking for a better alternative, either better phone or service.

Spotty reception throughout house. Frequent dropped calls with supposedly fair signal. I guess that's what I get for moving to the middle of nowhere.

Brand new phone and I barely get 1 bar outside the house. This one is going back and I'll be trying a difference service.

We all have different model phones and none work at our house we have to go about 5 miles towards tucson for reception

Up in the Sycamore Canyon development reception is poor. If you're by a window it might work. Basically you need a land line. So much for the fancy phone features. Oh, since getting my iPhone and switching to AT&T I have had numerous dropped calls. Its either the phone which doesn't have an external antenna or its AT&T. In either case the iPhone is great but my reception is questionable.

Depends on the time of day as to whether or not the phone will ring. It is impossible to retrieve any messages, hencing the land line that I have to have. I needed to call 911 but thank goodness I had a land line or I would have bled to death.

I had A T mobile phone that dropped service at Rita rd, and the I 10. it didn't work at all, I would leave town to go to Alpine and when I returned I had 40 messages over 4 days. so when the service contract ended on that line, I swithed to the ONLY servie that works near my house which is Verizon. the first phone I had was an LG4400, it would get 1 bar in my house and 5 in my neighbors back yard (used to go to BBQ's there). So I looked up a new phone for hard to get reception areas on CR, and found the Samsung E-815. it gets 3 of 5 in the house and rarely drops calls here, and gets 5 of 5 in Alpine where I am building a house. I am pleased with the Verizon service I receive,a nd as I have had friends with other carriers I can tell you that AT&T, T-mobile, sprint, Cingular, Nextel and Cricket DO NOT work anywhere near this area.

Get great reception in Garrigan's Gulch with Alltel. Had Cingular earlier and reception fluctuated a lot. I travel to the Sonoita area frequently, and there was no Cingular reception there at all.

i have to go outside of my house to use my phone and will only get one bar or I will be roaming Sprint I wouldnt recomened to anybody

After reading all the negatives about Cingular I had to respond. Most of the time in and around Tucson I have very good to perfect reception. In Vail (actually about 10 miles outside of Vail) it's pretty bad but we're a good 6 miles from the nearest tower. We had a coupld of Samsung phones that were almost useless, but after switching to the Razr we have had much better service. I can even use my phone almost everywhere in my house, which I could not do with the Samsung. All in all, I have nothing bad to say about Cingular and I have no idea why others are complaining about the service.