although my phone may show full bars, I cannot make a call or people can't hear me. or once I dial, the bars drop to nothing... so really there is no reception here!

I wish I knew if any provider is putting in towers or already has good reception in Mt. Washington. I think some singulair phones from friends have worked at my house.

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.

5 bars in Apt. with no reception - deception. Dropped calls are de rigueur. Student at USC shows 5 bars and again reception is spotty. Today I switch to another provider. I' m frustrated with Sprint service.

Cannot get reception in my own house most of the time

only edge reception. voice calls are often unintelligible or dropped. sometimes reception drops to no service. AT&T says they will submit a "trouble ticket".

Dropped calls every few minutes. In coming calls go straight to voicemail. No 3G service, sometimes no Edge service. This is the same with my Blackberry and the same SIM. Swapped SIMS twice and the phone once but still bad service. When will AT&T do something?

no voice or data reception what so ever. extremely disappointed. unbale to contact friends to meet up at the USC game.

Generally very poor GSM reception throughout Los Angeles. Travelling throughout urban China and Hong Kong, I get 5 bars of reception even in elevators!

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,

perfect reception with t-mobile, had to cancel AT&T plan because no reception

poor to bad reception rarely get more than one bar but calls fail. I dont get any incoming calls horrible.

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

After 5 years of perfect reception at my house as of three days ago I get zero bars and no cell service. I have a phone that is less than a year old. It works everywhere else in the city, except where I live. This is something that just started. What can one do to regain the cell service that was there for so long?

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

I hope I never have an emergency. Even with all the bars up on mine or my other family members' phones, we are constantly getting dropped calls, not being able to make calls, or missing calls or voicemails. I was once told by an AT&T employee that whenever he drives through our area and is on the phone, his calls are always dropped.

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).

I can get no signal whatsoever from inside the building, and signal is spotty even walking down the street. 2 bars is the best I can do in the immediate neighborhood.

No coverage whatsoever inside the Millennium Biltmore, especially in the main galleria. Coverage improves only slightly when you move towards the outside walls / doors, but even then calls drop regularly.