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AT&T wouldn't give us femtocell, although they said they would in letter. I was 2 days late. Zero service in the house or near any bldgs, and lousy customer service. We have 3 phones on family plan and am dying to switch to almost any decent non-AT&T provider. It seems like Sprint looks good in irvine?

Trying Verizon with ipad2. Bought 3 for family after 6 hrs in line. Hope I did not make serious error.

February 20, 2011. It seems the quality has deteriorated the last few days. I wonder if it's the rainy / cloudy weather; but signal should not be that sensitive to weather. This is weird.

Finally after 10+ year I get decent coverage with AT&T. Seems to have happened just this week. Most of my family already switched to Verizon because we couldn't even use our cells for calls at home, but I stuck with AT&T. Let's hope this increase service is permanent.

Today, October 2nd, both my wife and I noticed that we suddenly have 3 to 4 bars. Before we had 0 to 1. AT&T must have activated a new tower? Anyone else noticed the increased signal?

I heard bad things about AT&T in Irvine, but I wanted an iphone 4, and people told me that AT&T coverage had improved over the past year. Well, it has been o.k. in my house (off of Yale Loop near Jeffrey and Alton) I get 1 bar inside and sometimes 2 bars on the patio. Some calls are fine, and sometimes I drop calls. My office is at the Spectrum and I get maximum bars inside my office building all the time. It's great. Also, driving around Irvine, Tustin, Costa Mesa, Newport, etc... I rarely have any problems. I've had Sprint and Verizon too. In 2007 I was with Verizon and couldn't get one bar in my house near Culver and Michelson. I think Sprint is the best overall, but they don't have iphone and that's what I really wanted. My advice: get a cheap landline if cell service in your house is bad. Land lines are really cheap now. You can get a plan for about $9 per month.

With Femtocell that I pay for to get a signal at all, it is dreadful. Can't wait for the end of the contract and the commencement of another carrier selling the iPhone.

Neither phones, iPhone or Blackberry had absolutely NO RECEPTION in my house... I have to stick my phone o my window sill in order to make calls. In the end I had to used my PSP's Skype to make calls within my house. Outside of my house the reception is still very spotty. Had AT&T on and off, but this time around its much worse than before. I know phones have a lot to do with it, so I guess this is a testament of how poorly the iphone does in this area... but my Blackberry Curve didn't fare much better either.

Since I moved to this home, my coverage is so terrible. my wife now uses land line to call me at work. My phone drops calls all the time, although it's slightly better in the backyard. Terrible, terrible, and a major disappointment.

I get no reception in this area at all. Terrible. I think its just AT&T. They need to address this issue.