Very bad coverage

Frequent dropped calls, no reception in my house.

Cell reception is very poor inside or outside my house. Phone: Motorola V710 Carrier: Verizon Almost every call gets dropped. Except for the call that I made to Verizon to complain. Mysteriously that call sustained for 10 minutes. This is unacceptable in a big city such as Fremont. I will be dropping Verizon service shortly.

overall reception and connection quality while driving around the Fremont, union city and southern east bay area can be spotty and somewhat disappointing. (perhaps its the hills) Reception seems to follow most major interstates throughout the state but can still be spotty in some rural or non populated bay area locations like tracy, mountain house, sunol, brentwood, byron, oakley,black point, etc. If your primary locale consists of the following..it may be an ideal choice because... .best reception seems to be as a pedestrian in major urban hubs like berkeley, downtown oakland, haight ashbury and and most areas in san francisco, palo alto, stanford, NYC, JFK, etc. price wise you cant beat a minimum of 20 something bucks every ninety days to keep the same phone number... ..great choice for city dwellers perhaps, or as a temporary travel phone, but not suggested for use as a primary means of communication.

I get 4 bars from inside the house. Outside is is still only 4 bars.

T-Mobile gets NO reception at the Presidio Apartments across from the Fremont BART station. Pretty sad considering that there is a tower right there at Washington Hospital...

Had this phone and plan for over two years. Now I can't find service 2-3 times a week (how can it be "searching" and still claim I have 5 bars?). T-Mobile stinks.

Great coverage outside. Ok coverage indoors. Bluetooth reception drops a lot. Usually have about 3 bars.

Sprint service doesn't work in buildings, gets 1 or 2 bars outside buildings.

Cingular GSM coverage is poor, and getting worse in the last 6 months (3-9 / 2006). Cingular has changed its name to AT&T. Oddly enough, TDMA coverage is good. I resisted switching from my AT&T TDMA phone until required by my employer. This neighbourhood has lots of mature trees, and there is a large FAA site nearby with microwave dishes (towers). Probably contributes to microwave interference.