i have to ride my quad (4 wheel bike) down to gate, approx 1000 yards away to get reception. and I have to be on the right side of street. Left side, it dies?

Great reception in the neighborhood. However, when driving on HWY 4 between Morello and Pacheco Exits, I always drop the calls. I also drop calls / don't have any bars in the Hidden Lakes Park - Viginia Hills area.

I get great reception with my Verizon phone, usually full bars, I had Sprint before and had horrible service, usually 1 to 3 bars, now its 3-full bars. And EV-DO is the same way, its great.

I pretty much had all the carriers that are offered in the Martinez. I have to say though I have ATT and there service is good. But when I had Verizonwireless I had a but load of dropped calls. When there was a hill I could garente you that you going to drop even on freeways. Sprint has as good as coverage as ATT but there a little better because the 3g is everywhere but edge is fine to. So Sprint and AT&T are the best T-Mobile dosent have dropped calls but some areas there is just no service at all. Metropcs is just as good with Verizon to but I hated that the service area is so small. So all in all ATT and Sprint are the best service to chose in my view. Recommended Highly.

Im almost Always connected and have only dropped a few calls. Coverage is fairly good.

I formerly had Cingular (2 years ago), and got lousy coverage. Sprint and Nextel do a particularly good job of coverage in the courthouse area.

I had to really do some research but this older Nokia model gets great reception and rarely drops calls all over the SF Bay Area. Newer dital phones offered are a total nightmare.