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Acceptable signal levels in and around Bishop for voice calls. Rarely drops a call. Completely unacceptable 3G service. Can take all day to send a short email with small photo. Forget about accessing the internet, you can view a page an hour in you are lucky. Even worse when town is busy. AT&T has reached their local capacity and still sells more service accounts without upgrading their local 3G service. Many disatified AT&T paying customers all over the area. AT&T insists that there is no problem and will do nothing for you. Will be switching to Verizon soon if AT&T does not upgrade local 3G service that I am paying for. It is very disapointing.

Thank god AT&T bought out altell! Since they took over the coverage is perfect. Finally 3g and only one time has my phone had less than full bars. Nice.

I've had AT&T for years from Bay Area days. Am switching to Verizon this week. I've heard there is no AT&T 3G network in Bishop. Verizon has one here. In general AT&T has very poor reception on the Eastside and in Mammoth for any kind of phone.

My I phone is tight but my coverege sucks! Mammoth gets 3G. What about us? The Internet coverege and downloading very dissapointing for such a cool phone. Better have your wifi ready.

Lots of poor quality connections. Lots of dropped calls (despite Cingular's "promise of the fewest dropped calls). Works sketchily inside house and office (near Bishop City Hall). Often callers are directed instantly to voice mail although the phone is on and at my side (in my pocket). That said, there are some encouraging signs from time to time that it might actually be improving... no idea why those moments of clear, strong connections come and go so readily. I stay for the roll-over minutes of Cingular. Throw up some more towers that look like "pine trees." It won't spoil the reward of hiking into the backcountry of the John Muir Wilderness... mostly, they'll go unnoticed in any part of town, once they've been installed; I'd suggest one somewhere up near Cerro Coso Comm. College's campus (with its unnecessary light pollution!)

Cingular coverage in Bishop was pretty mediocre compared to Verizon or Cellular One. Calls would frequently drop, even with "full bars", calls would also frequently get static-y. Roams on Cellular One's GSM overlay, but despite great CDMA coverage in the area the gsm service is very finicky. The only Cingular tower is located East of town in the White Mountains.. Great if you're fishing over there :-)