Excellent reception VZ but twice as expensive AT&T was scratchy, but OK inside the house

got sick and tired of AT&T, moved to Sprint and never dropped a call. This is the best cell service I got in Monta Vista areas. My wife go Verizon and it works best also.

I used to face lots of problem with T-Mobile in Chicago. I would not get even a single bar at home. Had to step out or keep the phone by the window in order to get voice mails as well. But ever since i' full ve moved to this area, its flawless so far. I get even when i'm in office, driving, or at home. Dont have to step outside no more to talk to ppl. PS: Voice cracks sometimes.

I always get 5 bars in bay area. Unlike at&t, T-Mobile had only one bar. I am so happy with my current at&t's service.

As I read these reviews, I realized that for whatever reason, people are completely bashing Cingular but I haven't had any problems for the last 1.5 years. The ONLY place I have problems are on the Monta Vista HS campus (and only during school hours oddly enough) and Pierce Rd (close to Foothill). I get at most 2 bars in the previous two locations, but I had either 4 or 5 bars everywhere else.

Getting almost full bars indoors all the time.

Now I have Verizon and the reception is best. I have tried both AT&T and T-Mobile and they were not good. T-Mobile was horrible, the phone wouldn't even ring.

Inside the house-poor, outside around Cupertino mall and De Anza-exelent

My husband and I replace home phone all together with our cell phones. Once in a long while we may have a drop call or two but rock solid connection otherwise.

Never had a problem. Sprint seems to have good coverage in Cupertino area. However, I've noticed that the reception deteriorates in various pockets in Sunnyvale.

I get around 2~3 bars inside of my house and get around 4 bars when outside of the house. Very few dropped calls.

Reception is average to good in the north end of the neighborhood (Sycamore Drive / Black Oak Way) but becomes poor / non-existent along Oak Valley Dr.and Cristo Rey through the round about.

Signal good enough to carry a conversation indoor most of the time.

Many times calls go directly to voicemail without my phone even ringing. Standing outside or right next to the window usually increases by 1 or 2 bars, but 5 bars seems to be totally impossible. Callers are constantly asking me to repeat myself.

I love Verizon's service, BUT I just moved into my husband's house and my reception is horrible inside the house. He gets great reception Cingular service (too bad I hate Cingular). I have very few problems anywhere else.

Often had calls drop or no service at all. Most times it was on roaming. AT&T went downhill after buying Cingular. The calls dropped a lot more often, they started overbilling.45 per minute instead of.35 per minute per my contract and they started charges after 900 minutes when my contract had 1300 minutes on it. It became a monthly battle to go through my bill and call them to correct it. They usually corrected their mistakes but I got tired of having to scrutinize the bill each month so I was forced to move to Sprint.

I've had AT&T's GSM service for a little over a year and my reception seems to be getting worse. I can't even use my phone at home anymore, whereas I used to be able to at least use it when I was upstairs, near a window.

Sig strength sucks at best, must walk around to find the strongest signal each time I want to use cell. The same story outside the house. Phones are fairly new, oldest of 4 is 1 year.

It is so pathetic reception. Sometimes I get 1or 2 bars with difficulty and all other times no reception at all. To unable to bear this, I have opted to switch to Verizon and I took my work phone connection with Verizon. But I a still stuck with AT& for my family connection. Shame on you AT&T!. I have called Customer service multiple times. In my apt complex none of the AT&T phones receive or place calls. We don't even know of missed calls until next time we are out of our house and on the road. I see this forum with lots of people complaining about the coverage with AT&T in this area. How about a petition or even suing AT&T for the losses. For example - I have been using AT&T for more than 3 years just because of iphone.

There is virtually no coverage in this entire area encompassing the three major schools (Monta Vista, Kennedy, Lincoln). AT&T has a tower approved and they continually say it will be online by June 28. I have checked with them continually and they stick to that date. I didn't see the tower built yet, but they claim it's still on track!