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.

2-3 bars, which even when sufficient to complete an outgoing call, isn't sufficient for person called to actually hear me without breaking up. Same problem downtown LA at Fig. and Wilshire office building. Nothing inside; somewhat better outside. Weak reception -- brand new phone much worse than old one -- anyone use Working Assets / Credo, the green company?

all bars at home, and in the neighborhood. I also get service at work which is in a basement in burbank. can't complain.

Terrible indoors and out. Dropped calls, searching for network messages. Works everywhere else in town it seems, except where I live.

if you go inside a building or house it will drop the call or break up

I've been a T-Mobile customer for a few years now and where they do have coverage its fine. However their coverage is so limited. I get dropped calls all the time. calls go straight to my voice mail, I cant make calls even when I have full bars I get no reception in the building where AT&T does fine. I take the train to and from the Inland Empire and during the ride the coverage is minimal. Its good only in a few spots and terrible everywhere else.

Reception is very spotty and almost never works. I am so fed up - what's the best cell reception in Bel Air?

I work on sound stages all the time. I get NO reception on my iphone when I am inside a stage at Universal or any of the other lots in the area. I'm literally 200 feet from Steven Spielberg's office. Nada. I'm in a crowd of filmmakers all staring at their iphones and cursing. Outside the door I get a couple of bars. Att, this is your core subscriber base. What on earth are you thinking?

Just moved to area from IL, got amazing service out there thinking I would get the same service in a bigger city with more options.. but no... now I get terrible service and am wanting out of my contract! this sucks not having service

Tmobile customer for over 5 years. Reception and quality has been great for the most part. I do get some "call failed" error every now and then but likely the phone not the service as things are fine after restarting my phone.

Reception is good with this phone with never a dropped call and only occasional static. My last phone, a Motorola 551, had inconsistent reception, but this phone has worked well in almost all areas.

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

1bar outside building - 0 bars inside building - been this way for almost a year,AT&T is bad.

Yesterday I was walking in the neighborhood and saw a sign addressed to fellow AT&T customers. The sign said that AT&T had stopped leasing a tower from T-Mobile in the area. It also said AT&T had no plans to reactivate the tower or increase service in the area unless enough people complained about no service. I called AT&T and their tech people confirmed this. They also told me there were several areas in LA with similar issues. There is no guarantee that service will be restored. Hopefully, enough people will complain to get AT&T to reactivate the tower. Otherwise, they will wave the early termination fee. Which is something. But not great if you just bought an expensive phone...

I always find myself to have to go outside my home to see whether I am able to get better reception (which is not cool when it's very early, very late, or cold outside). Ocassionally this helps... to some extent. It is very frustrating -- not to mention upsetting -- having to ask people if they can repeat what they just said. However, I have no problems making or receiving calls when I'm in Long Beach, Downey, Cerritos, Lakewood, and a few other southeastern communities.

had amazing reception in laurel canyon for years... then about 3 weeks ago, my phone started saying "no service". after numerous calls to AT&T, a manager gets on the phone and tells me "the government took their tower and gave it to another carrier", "i should leave AT&T, and he offered me out of my contract". "if I wanted to contact anyone about this, I should contact the fcc!" this is unbelievable--they are wrecklessly switching out areas--are we not profitable enough? do they have no obligation to communicate with customers? help!

Awful reception even outside, running around on the street. Forget about trying to make a business call, or anything significant. Wonderful service AT&T! Yes!

Used to get one or two bars at home - enough to still get SMS, emails and see when a voicemail had come in. Fair enough for deep canyon living. But as of 2 weeks ago, when I am at home, my Blackberry now reads SOS in place of bars, and callers can't even get through to my voicemail, much less me in person. So after repeated calls to AT&T, they tell me they have changed the coverage in the area 'to improve the overall quality of network coverage'. After some heated discussion, they agreed to release me at no charge from my contract so I can find a cellphone provider that will actually let me use my cell phone in my house... otherwise coverage round town was OK. but useless for living in the hills.

no service in the house since about three weeks ago. seemed to coincide with the purchase of new phones. We had the same service before with our old phones without and issue. AT&T representatives were quite oblivious when we called to complain. I guess I may need to cancel my service.

Went from 5 bars to 0-1 most of the time. It suddenly started two weeks ago. ATT you suck