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Cell won't work inside the building for days at a time... have to mess with wifi calling and the phone is not originally set up for that... arrrrgggghhhhhh!

The reception is good here. Even better as I near UCSB. T Mobile lists the area between Ellwood and Gaviota as having great reception. There is NO reception between Refugio and Gaviota State Beaches on Hwy. 101. T Mobile needs to work on this ASAP

I live Southeast of the Fairview / Cathedral Oaks intersection and get no reception at home. I have to be outside to get one bar, or across the street and down a few houses.

Excellent reception throughout IV. No dropped calls, no complaints.

Just started happening since the 4th of July. I called T-Mobile and they said that there was poor reception in my area. This hasn't been an issue before in the last 6 months. They claim that maybe more people moved in and the signal weakened. sometimes I get all bars, until I try to call out, which is when I get 0 bars. I still have 6 months left on the service.

Great around town except when in underground parking.

Also, there are many more cell sites than this page indicates for the Goleta / Santa Barbara areas, very disapointing. If you have an Android, load the free "Antennas" app from the Market place to see where they are. Also load the "Real Signals" app to see the differances between your Data and Voice signals. For Verizon that's EVDO and 1x CDMA. I returned my DroidX yesterday to stay out of contract and have restarted using my 4 year old MotoQ.

In my building I get severe reception fluctuations and often calls go straight to voice mail. Likely a rare bad handset, but I found a Boost Mobile CDMA map (Same as Verizon) showing a narrow strip of marginal coverage for our street / buildings. (ATK) Curiously, Nextel iDen seems to have good coverage there. It's old but good TDMA technology, I may have to switch to it. (My wife is disabled and must be able to contact me quickly)

Great coverage by Verizon Wireless in all areas inside the house as well as all over the neighborhood. Live around Alameda and Butte near Dos Pueblos HS and reception is excellent. Was not always this way - until the new cell tower was put in on Hollister about 2 years ago, reception inside the house and even in the back yard was spotty, with lots of drops. But now, after the new tower, I couldn't be happier with reception here. By the way, reception is excellent throughout Goleta and SB - the only place is drops off is around Rincon Point on 101 going south. The call gets dropped, I redial, and connection is fine.

i get 4 / 5 1X and 5 / 5 EVDO. really want to get an iphone 3g but worried about switching to att, I had it about 4 years ago and reception was terrible. Verizon is so good here. any feedback?