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.

Maybe it is the model of phone but some times I have no bars.

Sprint has been good to me for 3 years so far. I have one more year left on my contract. The downside is there cost of adding things to your plan. Its get pricey right now I am paying around $70 for 1000K min. free after 7PM, 300 Text, Insurace, International calling BUT NO INTERNET! which I hate cuz if you go on the internet it will cost a lot. $15 is the base price for internet and my sis which she has Helio now no more Sprint is only paying $65 with unlimited texting and internet downside is -500 mins. / international calling / free after 9PM. -oh yeah about coverage its koo so far but customer service is crappy

Spint sucks. What else can I say? It is sometimes maddening not getting reception when a business related call comes in VIA my cell and I have to drive a couple miles away from home just to get a voice message. A couple people have noted that I cant talk longer than 4-5 minues with them before my phone starts breaking up. This has been going on for a couple years. I thought by swithing phones that this may work to use a cell. NOPE. I get the urge more and more to throw my phone out the window of my jeep after another lost call. SPRINT BLOWS

The tower locations on this website are not accurate. I am a consultant for T-Mobile and worked on the installation of their site on 2nd St. and Nieto (on top of Steak O'Rama). This cell site is not listed on this website. I checked other locations in which I installed cell sites for Cingular and T-Mobile and they too are not listed.

The lure of the T-Mobile "carry forward" unused minutes plan was the cause for this purchase. T-Mobile has not been able to awaken this phone which receives no signal in or around my house and only starts becoming functional at the intersection of Studebaker and Stearns. It will be reassigned to its well deserved paper weight position regardless of the 1,350 unused minutes on its clock. No reflection on Nokia which makes good hardware.

I live at the intersection of Willow and Studebaker in Long Beach which is a fringe area next to the Eldorado Park that many neighbors have labeled cellular hell. After month long frustrations with my own T-Mobile, which will not work in or around the house, I tried my sons' AT&T and Sprint which while functional displayed sub-average reception and clarity. The Motorola E815 with Verizon service was acquired today and functions flawlessly with excellent send and receive capabilities. The phone itsel has far too many features but fortunately they do not intrude too much in the process of placing and receiving calls.

Nextel coverage of the north side of Signal Hill and also in the Lakewood area have been poor for years. I seem to get much better coverage when I travel. In building is particularly poor. Oddly enough, coverage in my home near by is generally good.

Tmoblie works great here, inside and outside of my house. I had Verizon and could never get a signal.

Had Razr before and lucky if I get one bar or maybe two inside my apartment. My neighbor has the MDA and also complains about signal strength of lack of it.

Halfway down the Alamitos Peninsula on Belmont Shore the reception is poor. I usually you have to walk outside to get any reception and half the time I only get a message saying I have voicemail because the phone never received the incoming call. Since I reside on the second story of the building the reception is a little better, however, I still have to walk outside my apartment if I plan to have a conversation longer than a minute before the reception starts breaking up. What's weird with my phone is that sometimes it will show full reception bars, then it will show one bar the next minute, and then when I try to make a phone call it will show no bars. I usually have to wait until the phone shows bars in order to make an outgoing call before the bars go away again. It's like aliens are playing a sick game with my phone whenever I try to make a phone call just tick me off. One thing I would have to mention to anyone with a T-Mobile Razr V3 phone is that a few months ago T-Mobile let anyone with a Razr phone to exchange it for a newer version of the Razr because supposedly the first phones were having problems with reception and what not. I never really had any problems with my first Razr phone regarding reception but the new updated phones they gave out are actually worse. The only reason why I stick with T-Mobile is because they are about the only phone carrier with a one-year plan and they offer 1500 anytime minutes. Since T-Mobile uses Cingular's antennas it's the same as having a Cingular phone but with a much better service plan. Many people fall for the free weekend and night-time minutes no one really talks for more than 1000 minutes in a month let alone 1500.

my Motorola phone gets good signal outside about 2-3 signal bars but when I go inside its very bad. I got the Samsung t809 but that phone drops several calls and doens't get a lot of signal. I'm thinking about changing my phone company to Cingular because they get better signal in buildings especially stores and schools were T-Mobile fails to get anything.

Switched to Verizon from AT&T 2 years ago. AT&T had no reception at my house. Verizon is great, at my house and throughout this part of Long Beach.

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.

No reception inside the building unless I stand by the exteior door. There's a T-Mobile store nearby and they admit the reception in the area is lousy.

In our apartment we have to be by a window to get reception, or else we lose the signal. Otherwise reception in LB is pretty good, except for a little area on Livingston just before it hits 2nd where the signal is weak.

I get no reception with Nextel or Sprint at 2514 E Willow St. in Signal Hill, CA. I work from home and this is a real problem. If I go 2 blocks in any direction (except downhill on Cherry) I have perfect reception. There is a Sprint / Nextel store on the other side of Cherry and I get perfect reception there. The only carrier that seems to work with no dropped calls around here is Cingular. I've used them before and they are lousy, but it looks like I'll have to switch. With all this money being pumped in to Signal Hill why is there no cellular service in certain areas? I have 3 phones as I run a business out of my house and I just renewed my contract with Nextel before moving here. It will cost me $400 to get out of it. Does anyone know if there is a law stating that they have to actually provide service in order to hold me to the contract?

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?