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Sucks sucks sucks! New to AT&T June first 2011. Sales people knew the tower was out at sign up. It has been in and out constantly. Lost hundred in business. Family and friends tell me they called many times. I can't see that. Talk to customers then the call drops. Use the wi fi hotspot and phone has to be rebooted constantly which eats up more data. The phone sucks too. I guess AT&T will be paying this months bill too!

I bought the iPhone 3GS on Aug 7th and found out that the signal strength was horrible at my home. I was only getting 1 bar. I utilized my WiFI most of the time. I ended up returning the phone on Aug 27 within the 30-day money back guarantee period. The store reps admitted that my home area lacked adequate cell towers and that they were currently trying to get approval from the city to install 3 towers but they didn't know when that would happen. I loved the phone but the service left a lot to be desired.

The Steve jobs press conference left me feeling like the bank just emptied my account and gave me the excuse that some how I did it and that their system could never be wrong because, hey, we are the bank man. lol So bottom line. AT&T 3G service in our area has always been a problem, however you could get away with owning an iphone and still keep most of your calls active unless you need to be in one particular part of my home. The iphone g4 is quite a different story. It cannot receive 3G service anywhere in the house and it drops calls throughout most of the Huntington beach area. I drop over 50% of my call at least once. Not always does it show as a dropped call, sometimes it is as if we hung up. So I believe that this problem is a shared problem... . Lying or stupidity or the best public relations spin that apple could come up with and a carrier (AT&T) that lacks the will or ability to give enough power to all areas of at least Huntington Beach and some neighboring Orange County areas. Release the Lions!

I was coming home from work in San Gabriel, CA, and when I got off the 22 Westbound close to the Huntington Beach / Seal Beach area while talking with my girlfriend, I got a click then a couple of audible beeps from my car phone; I thought for a minute that she hung up on me. Every time I come across this Bolsa Chica Naval Weapons Station in Seal Beach, I start to get really antsy (in a negative way). Why do they really have to block the cell phone towers in such a way? I even live about a few blocks from that station, and I cannot get one single bar at my house. I went upstairs to my bedroom, and I still cannot get descent reception (even 1-2 bars does not even work for me---except for texting). Why, AT&T? Why?

I have been complaining for years to AT&T about their service. I know, I should have changed service providers by now but the rest of my family is on AT&T. But now I'm done. With the release of the iPhone and oversold service plans, AT&T's service is even worse, dropped calls many times per day, incoming calls going directly to voice mail but my phone doesn't show any missed calls, voice messages not showing up in my voicemail box for a week or more after the call, text messages being lost forever. And iPhone call quality is the worst. What does AT&T plan to do - continue spending millions of dollars of false marketing and advertising, and empty promises of new towers that only cause your phone to endlessly switch back and forth between towers. What a joke.

Terrible coverage. I agree with comments of others--AT&T needs to step up to the plate and improve coverage in Huntington Harbour. Very weak signal here. Whenever you are inside, the signal is non-existent most of the time; 1 bar is a luxury. Have to go outside to get any reception. If you are trying to conduct business from a cell phone or give up a land line, don't use AT&T in this area until they improve coverag!

Reception used to be good while AT&T used to share a tower with T-Mobile near HB Highr School, then they quit the partnership and that's why service went down the tubes. They were supposed to install a new "tower" by Dec 2008 at Goldenwest and Slate to cover the "shadow" of Edwards hill but they now claim that it will complete by Dec 2009. I'll believe it when I see it. My company Blackberry is Verizon and it works flawlessly inside and outside the house. 3G network is a POS!

This is embarasssing to have this bad of reception. Verizon gets 5 bars... ..iPhone gets nothing to one bar... .AT&T should step up and invest in a tower... Do not buy a iPhone in Huntington Harbour.

Reception varies from 3 to 5 bars. Voice and data work OK inside for the most part. However, there is no usable G3 coverage even outside.

I was so excited to get my new iPhone - but the excitement quickly dissipated as I found out my new iPhone gets NO SERVICE, or 1 bar at most in my home and around. I occasionally get 3-4 bars, with 3G, but only driving in certain areas, and its only brief. The iPhone is by far the coolest and funnest phone, even piece of electronics I've ever owned for that matter, but I'm sad to say, I'm leaving this morning to return my iPhone to AT&T and will continue with my PERFECT Verizon service and reception. It's really too bad Verizon can't make a deal with Apple.

AT&T Cell Phone Service Sucks in the Huntington Beach Harbor {Edinger / Melody} Area! I'm called Customer Service and they tell you lies! I'm waiting to get out of my Service Contract in Dec 08 and will switch over to their Competition! AT&T raise the Bars is BS! I have great service everywhere in the LA / OC area except HB Harbor area! Do not but AT&T Cell Service - maybe they'll fix the problem one day! LOL! Cloest Cell Tower is 3 miles away! Wake Up AT&T - get with it or continue to get bad "Word of Mouth" from actual users! 0-1 bars... . maybe!

No reception here in the shadow of Edwards Hill. Have tried to get ATT to help but they say my area has "moderate coverage" and refuse to let us out of our contract. When it is up I will probably go with Verizon.

Great reception from Huntington Beach to Buena Park up Beach Blvd. (my commute). Can use my cell in the house and all day at work.

I don't actually know how many bars I get, but I know that my indoor calls are constantly dropped and I have to sit outside anytime I want anyone to hear me. This doesn't do much for privacy since I live in Sandpointe Apartments (17th and Delaware), and all the residents' doors circle the pool and face each other. It's really a pain -- I have been eagerly awaiting the end of my contract.

Make a turn into SeaGate off of Promenade and all calls drop. AT&T service from a Cingular customer. Almost no reception in most parts of the house.

Frequent dropped calls. Signal fluxuates between 0 and 2. Also tested with Nokia phone with same results. This is our home location, both out and in doors.

I have to bend over my kitchen sink to get 2-3 bars... not good

Poor reception in Huntington Harbour area except near Warner or PCH. I recently changed from excellant Verizon CDMA coverage to Cingular GSM because of desire to have an international cell phone. However, Cingular's coverage is so awful in my home area of Huntington Harbour that I will have to either go back to Verizon and forget international cell service or find another GSM carrier such as T-Mobile. At first evalluation, T-Mobile seems a little better. I am only 3 / 4 mile from Cingular tower, but they seem to have the antennas narrowly directed down PCH and Warner. They could easily solve the coverage problem; however, the engineering group is very unresponsive to customers.

Cingular just doesn't work in downtown area. Calls constantly dropped / missed. Have changed phones 3 times, but nothing helps.

Poor signal strength here in my home. I can only make calls while holding still in specific areas in my home.

Cingular sucks here. Little to no reception in my house and walking outside does not help at all. Raising the bar and fewest dropped calls. BS!

Very poor service if any - constant dropped calls. Cingular customer service has been aware for past 2-years. Does not seem to be able or does not want to fix problem.

Reception used to be average, but since last month, it is very bad, dropped calls,phone not ringing, static. I called Congular, but they don't care. If you live in HB, don't go with Cingular, you will be sorry.

Poor to no reception in house. Poor outside. Get 1-2 bars maximum with lots of dropped calls.

From what I understand, I'm at the edge of two cell sites. so, that means I get no bars!... most of the time.

On an average, I get 1, maybe 2 bars of reception... if I'm lucky... .

my older 32k (orange network) gets great reception.my girlfriends 64k(blue network) gets no reception

At home, Had AT&T TDMA, no problem. Switched to Cingular GSM and poor to no signal. Manually switched phone network to AT&T and bingo 5 bars again. Customer service said the cell antenna accross the street is "blue" (AT&T) on thier map. I hope when the fully integrate the new gsm system, the switch this antenna over too.

I can't answer phone calls inside or outside of house because of the bad reception. It's very annoying.