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Absolutely zero reception for the good majority of long beach... sick and fed up, contract is up in 2 months and Verizon here I come..I'd rather pay a little more but actually be able to USE MY CELL PHONE

No problems with reception or dropped calls. Love AT&T -- their customer service is the best! They speak english and are sooo helpful! The only time I have bad reception is when I go to my granpda's house near Clark and Wardlow. Then I have to walk outside in order to make a call. Other than that, I have no problems or issues with AT&T.

One tower for all AT&T customers in the area I have spotty service during the day. we need another tower This is a Joke

I switch from Sprint to AT&T for the iphone - what a mistake! I never, REPEAT NEVER had a problem with dropped calls on Sprint, and I was with them for 10 years. What a mistake to switch to AT&T for the IPhone - I love the phone, but HATE the carrier. I have never experienced so many dropped calls, repeatedly over and over again. And I specifically asked about coverage in my area. I hope some class action law suit is filed against AT&T.

All our calls drop.. My iphone4, my wifes iphone 3g and my blackberry for work drop calls on a regular basis. Contacted at&t.. no resolution. We live on the 14th floor of a high rise with line of sight to ajn AT&T cell.. Signal strength doesn't matter.. I can't wait to dump ATT.

Let me tell you I love my iPhone 4 a family plan of 2 for 150 not bad 2gb data unlimited messagin 700 min. Voice but it's rare to have full signal strength. I wouldn't switch to Verizon though there infamous for contract fees!

no reception in my home. Love my Iphone but hate AT&T. cannot wait to go back to Sprint.

0-1 bars in the house 1-2 (on a good day) outside! hate it!

I live on a corner of 1st and Alamitos in Long Beach and my phnone goes from very poor reception to No Network or Network is busy! I swithched divices placed a new sim card and no resolution. I have 6 month left in the contract and they' don't want to waive the cancalation fee. This is B.S. I now hate AT&T! because there is no resolution to it and if they don't hold their part of the contract they should not be holding me to it.

ATT reception fluctuates from below average to average. Average 2-3 dropped calls per day whether I am in Long Beach or anywhere in So Cal including LA and San Diego. My friends joke about my high-end phone because they are at the other end of the dropped calls. I just call back and they automatically say, "ATT Most Reliable Network?" And the ads about fastest 3G! Compared to what? Daily get messages such as, "Cannot Connect To Network", "Network Not Available", "Unable To Connect To Voicemail" and "Mail Cannot Find The Server". All of these are ATT cell service issues not iPhone issues. I hate it! I'm looking to get rid of my iPhone because I can't take it anymore and too many calls to ATT and no resolution.

I moved matter of 5 blocks to Granada Ave, to find that I get no service at all. Unbelievable! I was forced to buy a freakin magic jack so I can get calls in my home. I want to leave, but need my Iphone. I wish I could just get a few bars atleast. I mean C'mon AT&T!

No major problems anywhere in town except for occasionally in the port area and on the north side of Signal Hill.

The service with everyone's phone (except Verizon for some reason) that comes to our place is super weak! I can go from 4 bars to no bars in 1 minute. There is no reason and no solution for this. I go outside and it helps a bit... but it's so erratic that I try to just call people from work. I bought a cell phone repeater (300 bucks) to try and solve the problem... i placed the antenna in the attic. It helps a little, but it still is so irregular... I just want a CONSTANT signal strength. Can anyone tell me why the signal comes and goes so frequently here?

Lousy reception, in Long Beach (home), Santa Monica (work), and everywhere in between. I feel like I got hosed. I jumped from T-Moble because I didn't like their handsets. Now I love my handset but most of my phone calls either break off or are so full of static that I give up and use a land-line.

Horrible service both inside and outside our home. Dropped calls are the norm... my friends hate when I call them from my cell phone for this very reason. Can't wait until my contract is up and I am switching to Verizon.

Bluff Park--ATT was horrible for 4 years, Cingular is even worse, doesn't matter what phone, I've had 4 of them. I'm going to try Verizon and will report. Cannot use Cingular anywhere south of 4th st, many dropped calls at Cherry and 7th and inside any buildings. Phone is useless in Bluff Park.

My reception is never consistant. Some times it will drop out altogether.

Never really had too much of a problem with Cingular. I have read alot of complaints here... *fingers crossed* I had Sprint and they were alright too... except there customer service was HORRIBLE. Unless they outsourced the call to India, where I had the most educated, well-spoken and genuinely attentive CSR's, who even went so far as to call me back the next day to MAKE SURE everything had gone thru okay. Let me repeat, they called me. So much for keeping it in the good ole USA. The thing to remember, is all cell phone service providers are evil. They are making uncalculatable amounts of profit and hanging you (their customer) out to dry on extortion-like lenghty contracts. The moral is find one that works for you. BTW - the quality and make of phone helps significantly. I get good service at home, on the road and with the help of unlocked phones, even when I travel out of the country. All I could want is a louder speaker phone option, coz when you're driving, or busy outside swinging an axe / hammer / golf club and logic dictates you can't do that with the phone pressed to your ear, you can't hear a thing. I wonder how that Motorola RAZR is?

We have AT&T GSM Service with Motorola V180 phones. I have noticed that the service seems to be getting worse. We experience frequent dropped calls and poor coverage. Incomming calls frequently roll over to voice mail.

Old AT&T TDMA service, worked well, until we went on vacation. We have two devices of the same model and manufacture date. Well, the situation is now that one teases you a bit letting you think you might get in a convo, the other just isn't that kinda girl and not a tease. The really fun part was while we were on vacation, all calls home, to the ATT, the ONLY phone service in the house, were met with all circuits busy or just no signal and straight to voice mail. Cingular states that they are "working" on the issue. Oh, and they would like to move us to the GSM service, it will be "definitely more reliable." Service is often good elsewhere in the area, but at home, no go. So, in conclusion, this service is like a cheating husband, great everywhere else, but lousy at home and worthy of a thrashing. Cheers

Reception on Shore side of 2nd St.Bridge is never consistent, and spotty at best. Signal strength rarely exceeds 2-3 bars, and typically shows 0-1 bars. Independent of phone model (I've had several Nokias and currenty use an Audiovox) phone calls frequently ring once at most, and then go either directly to my voice mail, or to a recording saying my number (of 5 years) was no longer in service. Lovely. Signal strength on the Naples side of the bridge is usually around 3 bars. And on either side of the bridge, text message notification often comes hours after message was originally sent, and some messages are never received at all. (Tho I did get one last week, around the 5th of October, dated March 16! Go figure... )

Phone shows 4 bars but incoming calls never come through. Sometimes the caller gets a message that the phone number is disconnected. And the phone itself has no low battery warning and turns itself off even with a full battery. This is the second and last time I will give Cingular a chance. A complete waste of several hundred dollars.

Cingularly bad, as they say. Used to be dropped calls was the norm, now just can't get a signal. I might wish this service on my worst enemy...

There's an old AT&T tower on the NE corner of this intersecrion, now a Cingular tower. I can see this tower from my home and I get near perfect reception inside and outside the house. Overall I'm happy with Cingular in the Long Beach area, but I wish I had a different phone. All my problems can be attributed to the phone.

Great reception. So good I don't even have a landline anymore.

On average poor to below average. I say that reversed because most of the time I'm at poor. May have something to do with the airport being two blocks away.

The only time I got reception in the grocery store was when standing next to the meat aisle. There is poor reception in the plaza outdoors. Very shoddy service in this area... I often leave a store and receive several voicemails from people trying to reach me.

This phone combined with this carrier are awful. Every call I make is dropped. Yes, EVERY call, everywhere. I know someone who has a different phone with Cingular and they don't experience the same problems I do. Perhaps buying a $200+ phone would solve these problems.

Like other reviewers, I would sat that reception in the Long Beach, Signal Hill area is terrible. Service with ATT was o.k. but Cinguar is a waste of money. A million free rollover minutes won't do you any good in this area. My Nokia (I've had 2and a Motorola) is a paperweight. Good thing the Nokia is supplied by work. (No one can ever reach me!) My personal carrier is Verizon (LG VX600). It isn't perfect, but I pay for this one and I'll stick with them.

its always good in the long beach area, the only problem is inside of the building. but not offen

The LG 1300 phone from Cingular gets little reception ANYWHERE..it cuts off calls and says "emergency only" for about 30% of the time the phone is on.

Cingular is working very well here. I've tried them all, and Verizon is probably the best, but Cingular is a close 2nd. It seems that Long Beach is a bit spotty in coverage with Sprint and ATT, although not unusable - sometimes one house over or across the street makes the difference.

Calls drop constantly in my house. Also have lots of call switching going on (ie I dial a number and get some totally unrelated person, while the person I am calling gets a call from someone they dont know at the same time!).

I can use my phone in the basement of our building. Very happy we didn't buy T-Mobile.

Magnificent! I haven't had a problem with reception since I first got my phone. No complaints here.

If you are inside a building such as the Student Union on campus, chances of any reception are very slim. You need to be out in the open away from structures and not in between buildings either to get some reception. At peak times (around noon and 5pm), the network is busy even though you get reception. Either you would need to get away from campus or just wait till the peak time is over.