Was awful a year go (2010) but somewhat improved recently. Still drops my calls every time when I drive around our neighborhood, which is in the Mission Hills.

My wife and I live right across the street from the Metro PCS main strore on Mowry blvd. We have to go outside lof our apt to make or recieve a call. 90% of the time we lose signal.We don't have a house phone cause me n my wife use cellphones..my father and I talk daily, I haven't heard from him in two days. I tryed called him onmy phone and had no signal. I drove 2 his house and asked him y he not call me. He slaid he tried to. Long story short. He had heartattack and tried calling me l. For help. Stupid. Metro pcs.

Very poor reception in this area for AT&T customers. Tried with several Motorola phones which have very good reception I other areas. I have no idea where the nearest cell towers are and would appreciate comments.

I was suckered in to buying the iPhone 3Gs for AT&T. The phone was awesome, but WOW was the service utter CRAP! I live in a two-story house in Fremont. On good days, I would have three bars inside, but as soon as I went downstairs, I couldn't make a phone call to save me. Eventually I've had enough of them! I went down to the AT&T store, waited for an hour just to get help, and told them my problem. The customer service woman (who was quite rude) told me that they have been working on improving their network in the Bay Area, and she asked me if I wanted to buy the Microcell which would increase my signal strength; I asked her how much it was going to cost, she told me that it was going to be $150 for the mini-tower. After about a minute of thinking about it, I told her I've had enough of AT&T and paid the Early Termination Fee. After paying it, I went down to the Verizon store and never looked back.

Barely downloads 200Kbits / sec here in Irvington, but get 600Kb / sec in Niles, and get 1.7Mb / sec at San Jose Fairgrounds.

Generally very good around Gomes Elementary School and most of Fremont, far better than my Sprint / Virgin Mobile reception.

My phone does not get reception at all with this phone. It is very frustrating not being able to use my phone at home. I feel that AT&T has horrible service. I will be switching providers as soon as my contract is over.

Just moved to Ardenwood and unfortuantely no Sprint signal, inside the house or outside... .

No coverage at all in side the roof. I wonder why AT&T don't have tower in Alvarado - Niles.

EDGE and cellular service almost always drops somewhere between the toll booth and the high-rise.

Inside the house 3G does not work always but EDGE is ok.

At&t has the worst reception in South Fremont by far. My father comes over my house and uses his Nextel without any issues while I barely get reception and when I finally make / receive a call it drops while I'm on the phone. More like less bars in more places...

Switched from Nextel i836 (very good reception) to Sprint Blackberry Curve. So bad I can't use it and am looking for a solution.

I get great reception even with one or two bars, but when sending pics on one or two bars it will take a while or need to resend. no dropped calls.

All along Paseo from Durham to Pine and all along Durham to Mission. AT&T is Pathetic

Indoor coverage is very poor. I switched to AT&T to get the iPhone.. bad move! Great Phone... terrible cell coverage. Lots of dropped calls indoors.

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.