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Dumped AT&T because of bad, no make that NO receoption. Switched to Verizon. Very Happy Now.

3G utterly sucks downtown. Extremely spotty and slow. Want to stream music? Good luck. Most of the time I'm on edge : /

I Just bought a house in this area and find my calls continuously being dropped or garbled.

I live in east La in 3rd and ford street switchd to Verizon cuz everyone told me they had GREAT Coverage. I get no reception in my house in my room, kitchen and living room. Its not my phone cuz my mom also on Verizon has a different phone she has a droid charge same thing no reception we both get 1x or 1G we dnt even get 3G! Funny thing I had AT&T before an iphone 4S I never dropped a call and I got 4-5 bars of 3G.. AT&T here I come!

switched to Verizon for their reported "great cell coverage"--i've never dropped more calls in my life. On the 10 freeway, on the 60 fwy, on the 405 fwy, over coldwater canyon--everywhere! I'm switching out.

Reception has deteriorated to the point where 100% of the calls get dropped. We are going to discontinue Verizon if things don't improve ASAP.

Drop calls have increased withing the last year and a half. I thought service was to get better. Many dead zones around 5 mile radius of home and within home. Not a happy camper!

Have an ipad 2 on Verizon in Museum Towers (Olive and 2nd approx.) 1-3 bars, abysmal download speeds. 300kbps max. Grateful my iPhone is with AT&T. 5 bars and 3-5mbps down.

Ca someone please explain to me why da hell Verizon doesn't work in my aunts house in east La? She lives by da king taco on 3rd street. All of 3rd street is a freakin Verizon deadzone believe it or not u don't even get a 3g evdo signal even when u are standing outside and there's a cellphone tower across the street in a tree u can even see it cuz its like right there lol I'm guessing its not a Verizon tower? Because my phone only gets a 1x signal and its very low I only get 0-1 bars outside! And its constantly searching and atleast 75% percent of my calls are dropped its frustating! I live in west hollywood but everytime I come to visit my aunt or come to eat at king taco its freaking frustating cuz I can't make calls and I can't use the internet at all cuz it wont connect when it shows a 1x signal. I know for a fact its not my phone because at my house in west hollywood I always have full 4g reception. Is also embarrasing that my aunt has metro PCS and it works fine in her house her crappy metro PCS phone that doesn't even have a camera gets 3-5 bars in her house and I have to borrow her phone to make calls lol its embarrasing. Most likely I'm not gunna go visit her anymore cuz she always makes fun of me.. cuz my Verizon phone doesn't work in her neighborhood and metro PCS does.. -_-

Practically no data coverage with Verizon in this area. I get two bars at most 90% of the time and no 3G coverage. My phone indicates 1G when trying to access data. Text messages and voice mail arrives late. Very disappointed with Verizon since I moved to downtown LA.

I live this area last couple of years. Verizon coverage is really poor in my area. Calls dropped, and I lost many calls, reception and talking is really terrible. This areas seems to no Verizon cell towers within a couple of miles also.

My iPhone came early! I picked it up yesterday at USPS. My service is great with Verizon. Sprint roams on them in my house, T-Mobile and AT&T have zip-1 bar and Metro has nothing. To the person below, maybe it is your house or phone. They also make 3G Network Extenders. I haven't had any problems tho.

I've lived here for 6 months and I get absolutely NO reception in my home / office. I also cannot get my messages because if you don't have reception, you don't get the voice mail either, at least not with Verizon Wireless. I have called them several times and get NO Satisfaction. I am waiting for my contract to run out and then switching. I am paying way too much for service that I receive only when I'm not at home and a minimum of 2 miles from my house, in Los Angeles CA. I hesitate to upgrade to the iphone because I will not be able to to use it anyway. I would love to hear from someone in my area who has reception.

AT&T sucks balls in the Century City area. If calls were dropped, that would be an improvement - half the time, there just is not enough coverage to even make a call! I'm so sick of seeing "No Service" on my iPhone... what the hell am I paying AT&T $100 / mo for again?

Verizon coverage is poor, calls dropped, a "dead-zone" on the way up from Sunset Blvd., lots of static from incoming calls and people I call get garbled signal. Texting seems to work okay, but sending pictures takes forever, sometimes 'times-out'. Am told its the topography, there are no Verizon cell towers within a couple of miles.

this is great service, you get what you pay for. really good reception everywhere.. except the twilight zone. haha. Honestly great though!

I have had various phones with Verizon over the years and can sometimes get a call but it will eventually drop. I can send and receive texts. My husband has an AT&T iPhone and cannot get any calls. I am looking to put a cell booster in the house and hope it improves reception. Has anyone else tried this? It seems almost everyone in the area uses AT&T because of the iPhone. iPhone's are great, but the Droid is very similar.

Verizon has always been great for me. I have 4-5 bars at home on the west end of West Hollywood. I drive around and talk on the phone and have very few dropped calls, literally one since I got my new Android phone a month ago.

Reception is good outside and in the car; However once you enter a building even near windows bye bye reception. This is a major business area and many residential apartments are around, I wonder why can't the signal be better!

My Verizon reception has been getting crappier and crappier in my neighborhood, and I don't know why. It used to be great. As it is, there's almost nowhere in my house that I feel confident enough to make a call from. What's going on? Has Verizon lost a tower over here, or something?

Calls are dropped all.the.time., to the point where I need to leave my apartment to use my cell phone.

no only my phone but also my wireless computer is communication it's very slow and drops all the time

Verizon works Great all over los angeles, never have a problem. was thinking about getting iPhone but I have learned that when i'm talking to people on iPhones, the calls always drop. and I mean always. Now, I plan to wait for the Nexus One to come to Verizon or if the Iphone ever comes to Verizon.

Woo Hoo! Ported my number over from AT&T to Verizon Wireless and Best Buy gave me my Motorola Droid EARLY! I LOVE THIS PHONE! And know what's better? I can KEEP a call with out it dropping! Also, my data speeds are FAST! I am so happy to be gone from AT&T. I would really look into Verizon and the Motorola Droid or the Droid Eris by HTC. Sprint wasn't even this good when I had them before my iPhone 3G. THANK YOU VERIZON! You have a GREAT network!

No Verizon service in Laurel Canyon. I lose calls coming up the hill and do not regain it until I'm at the top of the hill. If I stand in one spot in my house (which is outside) I can get service for 2 min before it drops. Otherwise when service does work, I can hear the person I am talking to, but they cannot hear me. The only carrier found to work is Sprint.

Very poor reception in West LA and Santa Monica with verizon. No indoor coverage

I've never had a problem with Verizon coverage... never. Not on the west coast or the east coast or driving from one end of the USA to the other.

The reception in my condo is awful. I have to use my landline all the time.

Very good reception with VZW. Virtual dead zone for Cingular / AT&T; their reception virtually cuts out on Glendale Blvd.once you cross San Fernando Rd heading SE.

3-4 years ago Verizon was the best carrier on UCLA's campus. Now, service is very spotty in many of the larger buildings on campus. Friends with AT&T get much better service inside buildings. Service outdoors is still good.

I had a Treo 700p and the reception was horrible. Couldn't talk on the phone in my home. Thought it was Verizon service, but switched to the BB Curve and now reception is great. I can even make and receive calls down in the garage where I couldn't before with the Treo. To the user with the 700p in Bel Air, switch your phone. It's not Verizon, it's the phone. My wife's LG would work perfectly when my Treo wouldn't.

Used to get 3 to 4 bars in the house. A couple of months ago there was a noticeable drop to one or two. Can usually still make calls, but it's spotty. Decent around Bel Air. Dead spot halfway down Roscomare and halfway down Woodcliff,

I'm on the corner of Ohio and Veteran Ave in Westwood. I have a basic voice / text plan with Verizon for the last few years. I've had a good overall experience with Verizon. My apt (on one of the higher levels of the building) gets decent reception (at least 4 bars with a fully charged battery). In addition, my Verizon phone has worked all over Westwood. I'm going to go with AT&T soon due to the selection of phones, rollover minutes, and international calling, but am worried that reception may not be as good as Verizon's. If not, I'll be switching back to Verizon despite the benefits of AT&T

Only 2 bars, but have never had a dropped call or bad reception. I think the phone only goes up to 4 bars.

Thought about switching to ATT iPhone. Had someone come here with the new iphone to check reception before doing so. iphone showed 1 bar, no 3g and incoming call issues. My Verizon palm treo shows 3 bars,rarely drops a call, sms and email no problem. Not switching until ATT improves their network. As badly as I want an iPhone being able to reliably make and receive calls here is more important than great product design. Is network coverage one reason why Apple wanted to first partner with Verizon to sell the iphone?

I am about to take the plunge and get AT&T and the iPhone. Before I do so, I must pay my respects to Verizon which never let me down coverage-wise. I will use my first two weeks to evaluate and I will be back if AT&T does not deliver (and I'll repost).

Calls invariably drop. You are traveling in and out of the hills, so keep that in mind. The 5 minutes between Chinatown and the other side of Elysian Park isn't much to sweat over anyway... unless it's an emergency call.

Good clarity, no dropped calls, very satisfied in five mile area.

Always great. Inside the house, outside the house, wherever -- even in other cities.

3-4 bars all the time. Wanted to switch to AT&T for the roll over plans, but AT&T is getting mixed user reviews online, so I'm still holding onto Verizon. However, my co-workers having AT&T can talk while 3 floors down in the underground parking structure. I can never get a Verizon signal as soon as I enter the parking structure. Now that's impressive!

4-5 bars all the time. Wanted to switch to AT&T for the roll over plans, but AT&T is getting mixed user reviews online, so I'm still holding onto Verizon.

Usually I praise VZW for having the best phone service but every since I moved here I'm lucky if I get 1 bar.

My call service at home is abysmal. It's definitely the location because I switched from Cingular which was even worse. I have also tried several different phone models with varying success. The best combo has actually been my Black Berry on T-Mobile that I use for work. On my Treo the call quality is bad during rush hour and somewhat better late at night and on the weekend. It stinks because my only phone is my cell. Lots of dropped calls from this location. Otherwise both phone and service have been good in LA. I usually have bars when others don't. I guess this is just one of those lucky spots with bad service.

Reception is great. Once I went to the Verizon store to get a connector cable and the "service" was so laughably horrible that I swore I'd move to another carrier as soon as I could.

My calls get dropped along Melrose starting at La Brea and going through to Vine.

My calls get dropped along Willoughby starting around Highland and going through to Vine.

Reception comes and goes. Frequently get choppy reception followed by a dropped call. Switched to Vzn a few years back because Cingular was so bad, but if anything Verizon has worsened over time.

Great reception in this part of Los Angeles (Lincoln Heights)

Verizon excellent in all of downtown LA area. Only carrier in my high rise apartment getting 5 antenna reception in the building elevator in operation.

Verizon Wireless as usual sucks. Horrible Reception. Dropped calls all day. Have several phones on the account so it's not just one phone and they can't keep a signal if they tried. Works sometimes in one room of the house and no service in the next. They of course claim everything is fine. Verizon also can't keep a bill straight if they tried. They overbill, refuse to fix things and suck money endlessly. Their "Worry Free Guarantee" also is a bunch of bul&** too. Customer Service is also a joke with rude reps. Verizon also doesn't offer ONE SINGLE feature that other companies offer. Who cares about "IN" Calling when it's only to their network? No reasonable nights and weekends, no free incoming, no favorite 5 or 10 friends. Zero, Zip. Nextel and Sprint giving you free incoming or free incoming and outgoing to EVERYBODY and ALL phone numbers if you choose the right plan. Go with the Sprint or Nextel Unlimited calling plans for the same price that Verizon charges for a low amount of minutes. Can't go wrong. Great service with Sprint / Nextel. Even Cingular is better then Verizon. It's worth paying the termination fees to stop dealing with a company that's not even competitive.

1 to 2 bars - Back here in the canyon it is pretty shielded from line of sight to any towers.

Spread the good news: The Motorola KRZR K1m on the Verizon network actually works well in the Hollywood Hills / Beachwood Canyon! My LG 6100 rarely works in this area, but a friend's old Motorola does, so I decided to give this brand a try. Verizon tech told me the different materials used in the antennas by various manufacturers effect phone performance. Whatever the reason, this Motorola phone with Verizon works great. Able to make and receive calls every time. And although signal strength is often only one or two bars, reception is always clear and strong on both ends.

ALL carriers are awful in this neighborhood because its close to the airport. The reason they tell you on the plane to switch off your phone isn't because it messes up the navigation system, but because the cellphone carriers ask them too because it messes up the local towers to suddenly be tracking 100 phones searching for a connection at 150mph. Verizon is better than most in this neighborhood but still poor. Get some poor call quality and occasional dropped calls. But previously had AT&T (now Cingular) which was dreadful - could barely use the phone. If anyone has something which works in 90045 PLEASE put a note on here. Thanks.

miserable to zero reception and tons of garbled an dropped calls... .looking to get new carrier

Been in this area for years and never had a problem. You might want to stay away from phones that try to do too much. Find one that has good reception. My wife's LG has much spottier Verizon reception than my V710. I even still get analog service out in the desert, when most phones have dropped analog signal. I bought a Treo from Cingular and took it back after a week. I don't know how much was Cingular, and how much was Treo, but I had the phone a week and never completed a call.

I travel between Wilshire and Crenshaw and Olympic and Barrington all the time and reception is generally good the whole way on Olympic, or Pico, or Wilshire. I have had occasional dropped calls, but I can't place them specifically at a certain place all the time.

3-4 bars indoors in my 3rd Floor apt facing my building's courtyard

Service is just as bad as Sprint in the area. None whatsoever or dropped calls within 1-2 minutes. LOVED the phone, was very sad to return it and cancel service...

usually gets around 6 bars and the occasional drop to 3 but its really strong I have even made calls in the red line!

Only rarely get reception. Most of the time the phone doesn't ring - will get a message that I have a voice mail waiting. Had Sprint before and that was just as bad. I had a friend over who had Cingular and it seemed to work okay - not great.

Reception is excellent everywhere. Usually my friends with other phone companies have less bars wherever we are even in the mountains. When a call drops it is usually their carrier. But Verizon is pricy. I am trying Sprint for 5 days and the reception at Verizon is better. I am trying to decied between spending lots of money on the best reception with Verizon Or getting free nights at Sprint starting at 6pm. Verizon also has better customer service. I had to wait 10 minutes for someone at Sprint. And to cancel service at Sprint you have to call first.

Coverage is spotty. Four bars quickly turn to one. Calls mysteriously drop. New Cingular tower is going in on San Rafael, but I'm reluctant to switch because of all the bad feedback on Cingular.

Little to no reception at home. Two bars if i'm lucky.

El Sereno MS gets no reception with Verizon. For all of us who work here, it doesn't matter what phone we have. Of course Cingular has 4 bars. I'd like to see where that "Can You Hear Me Now" Guy is!

Pretty much every time I am on Highland starting from about Willoughby going south to about 3rd street I have no reception or if I am on a call, the call is dropped. I also have very poor, if any reception on my block, the 800 block of Cherokee (North of Melrose, east of Highland). I find this very ironic considering that up until a couple of weeks ago there was a huge Verizon billboard at Melrose and Highland touting the "great" coverage. I can't wait to switch at the end of the year to a better network.

had to switch from Cingular to Verizon, after moving to Los Feliz. Verizon has best coverage in the area of town, hands down.

In my house I get one to two bars but it means nothing, I cant even keep up a conversation for 5 minutes without having my calls dropped. So now whenever I need to make a call I have to walk outside of my house to find a decent spot for reception but its to no avail... in a few minutes I lose my call.

I get the worst reception I have ever had for a cell phone in certain spots in my house. When I open the phone I see five bars... until I make a call, then it drops to one bar and of course that means zip, zero, zilch nada, no reception. Reception in the downtown LA area is great.

In my area West LA I generally get good to excellent reception with Verizon.

My phone gets absolutely no signal in and around the building. I have to walk at least a block to get even one bar of reception on my phone.

Verizon is almost more expensive than all the other carriers combined... but everyone in my family has it so all those minutes are free and the reception in Silver Lake seems better than any other carrier. I was told when moving here to steer away from Sprint and Cingular. My housemate has T-Mobile and has to go outside to talk or stand on a chair.

I.m Cell Phone Store Owner 8th St. and Hobart Bl Receiption Quality in the Store(indoor) Veizon : 5Bar T-Mobile : 3Bar Sprint : 4Bar Cingular : 1Bar Nextel : 3Bar

very bad reception on hilgard (sorority row). calls almost never go through. very patchy. I used to have Cingular and service was the same... .maybe it's the area.

Last year, I got pretty bad reception... 1 or 2 bars if I kept my phone by the window. This year, I moved next door in the same complex and now I get 2-3 bars all the time.

Northbound 1 / 4 mile from this intersection for the next 2.5 miles Verizon has vitually no reception. Sprint's is excellent. T-Mobile and AT&T (The worst in LA) are also very weak to nil

I consistently drop calls every day at this intersection, especially if you're cresting the hill to go over into LA.

Verizon has poor coverage on the south half of the USC campus. You would think cell phone carriers would want to provide good service for college students still spending out of their parents' checkbooks.

Reception is toally inconsistent at my house. 3 blocks away and it is fine. Verizon has repeatedly had no explanation. Surprise, surprise.

My wife and I live in Beachwood Canyon, about 10 blocks above Franklin, halfway up the hill. Pretty much everyone seems to have trouble up here receiving mesgs. I get about 3 bars, but have a hard time receiving calls in our house, with many dropped calls, or ones that never ring the phone, and go straight into voice mail.

Consistently 4-5 bars. Very good service in this area via Verizon.

No reception at all. Up on hillside above Mandeville Canyon. Verizon wireless service.

Excellent reception 99% of the time. I even get reception in the 2nd level below ground parking garage. If I ever leave Verizon will only be because I need a phone they don't offer.

After having sub par luck with both cingular / ATT and T-Mobile in our house (2 bars or less), then we switched over to Verizon. Now we get 4 bars in our house and can even make calls from Roscomere!

Phone displays 5 bars - but my calls drop CONSISTENTLY. Sometimes I won't get a call but my voicemail will ring. I got a replacement phone, same problem. My girlfriend's Cingular phone has the problem about 1 / 3 of the time mine does in the same location. Looking for a new carrier - Verizon was fantastic when I was living in NYC, Philadelphia and Ithaca, NY. In LA, it's amazing if I can drive 2 blocks without dropping a call.

In the Glassell Park / Eagle Rock are where I live I get very spotty reception with Verizon, and almost none at my house! How can this be being right between downtown Glendale and downtown Los Angeles?!? And I get perfect reception while driving through farm country in the San Joaquin Valley? I don't get it.

Calls were never dropped in past two years - ins and outs of building. However, I'll never buy another Motorola phones (exchanged 3 times in the past two years - same problems)

Though service is marginal at best, it seems to be the winner here. It looked to have a better signal than Sprint and shares it's consistency. In other words, standing in one place the signal doesn't fluctuate, unlike my tests with Cingular. The network has tested to be very strong throughout the LA area and in the rest of the nation. My NYC friends swear by Verizon and my cross country travels have been well covered. Verizon plans are not competitive. Their prices are generally higher than the competition. Technologically speaking they are the slowest to adopt new handsets. If you can find a phone that suits your needs from Verizon's offerings, I'd say they are your best bet.

Great reception in the 'hood, even by the Silverlake Resevoir, a notorious dead spot

Hit and miss reception. Some apartments at the Oakwood complex have good reception, others do not.

Verizon is a dramatic improvement over AT&T wireless, especially in and around Westwood. I notice friends with other carriers have reception here or there in their own special "sweet spot" in the neighborhood / campus. Verizon is the only one that works everywhere around here.

Just switched from AT&T a month ago and am THRILLED to be able to actually use my phone at home in the hills. Even works in the elevator, at the market and in between. There is a dead zone mid-Roscomare (and east Bel Air has a total dead zone up Bel Air Road) but overall this is the best!

reception used to be good here around ucla, but it seems like Verizon is losing towers across the board. everyone I know has been getting more dropped calls in the past couple months... be careful. also their customer service went down the drain they used to be a lot better, but the past coupld weeks when I told them I would probably switch my service when my contract expires in june they didnt even really care or try to fix the problem...

Deep inside South Campus buildings, reception is weak and usually non-existent. But the article leading up to this survey explains that adequately (power). In Sproul hall, reception is very good, even working in elevators. In some other residential halls (particularly DeNeve Plaza), reception is spotty in certain corners, but reliability is still around 98%. Verizon is the best choice around all of UCLA when the competition is considered.

I'm lucky if my phone rings ever. Forget trying to place a call from here to Fairfax / Sunset, or east towards Gardener. Total dead area, and it is an busy and well travelled area. Verizon works everywhere else when my friends phones don't. Just not at home or in the neighborhood. Sprint PCS was worse, barely worked anywhere. Sprint even didn't work on Ventura Blvd. in front of their billboard that claims "now with expanded coverage in LA". And Sprint has the worst customer service I have ever dealt with, ever. Verizon is the best, and I've had them all. I just wish it would work at home so I could cancel my land line.

The 7135 gets better reception than my old Motorola StarTac.

Reception is decent on the streets and spotty within the house. If I locate a good spot indoors, I'm able to carry on a lengthy conversation over the phone.

Well, I think Verizon is the only company that you get 1 or sometimes 2 bars when you're in the subway! Wow... so amazing. Such strong signals they have.

Verizon has the best reception in the UCLA area by far, and it's actually the only company that seems to get reception within my apartment building (my friends with other services get literally NO reception). I switched from Sprint a year ago, and it was more than worth the extra cost. You will still get dropped calls occasionally, but generally service is very reliable. If your reception starts cutting out frequently, consider taking your phone into the Verizon store for a software update. Also, if it's within its 1-year warranty period, they'll replace anything (batteries, bent antennaes, etc.) for free. To keep reception up, update your Preferred Roaming List once a month by dialing *228 and choosing option 2.

Switched from AT&T in January cause reception sucked. Reception w/ Verizon was great until 2 months ago. Now the bars keep bouncing from 0 to 5, I've been getting a lot of dropped calls and network busy signals, and a lot of calls go straight to voicemail. :(

Bad service lately - no service. Although, it could be their phone!

Very very very poor reception. Keep "on and off" all the time at indoor situation. Called Verizon, they said that area is in the intersection of several towers, maybe phone get confused... but I doubt it.........

Just switched to Verizon from AT&T GSM. Wow. What a difference, especially where I work in the west SF Valley. Used to get no reception in many buildings and spotty reception in Silver Lake with AT&T. With Verizon, clear signal throughout LA. The only dead spot I found was in Stevenson Ranch in Santa Clarita (i.e. the boonies).