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Verizon Rocks! Card good for 30% (1900Mhz EVDO), amplifier brings that to 100%.

Cingular ROCKS! Just get the right phone (good for 70% signal strength) and an amplifier (brings it to 100% signal strength).

Had Nextel service in this area and it sucked! Changed to AT&T and ten times better. I get good service all along the 101 frwy from Camarillo to Ventura!

I've put at least 12 hrs in the past 3 weeks with customer service and various Cingular shops trying to resolve various problems. I dial and I can't hear a ringtone and I can't hear the people I'm calling though they can hear me. dropped calls, other voices on my line and horrible customer service most of the time wanting us to be on hold for some ungodly amount of time. Ridiculous and I will be trying another phone again. Less minutes for the new plan and worse service and less reliable.

Actually, I vary up to 3 bars. However, this fluctuates wildly. It is not limited to my phone either. I also have a Nokia 3350 (?) and it experiences reception problems also but is better than the Motorola which is newer. The larger problem is that I experience NUMEROUS failed calls, dropped calls, calls going directly to voice mail instead of ringing first, poor reception (very garbled) etc. There is no rhyme or reason to this in town. I did find out from Customer Service that we are in a "low to moderate" service area to begin with. Add to this the fact that 2 of 3 towers are out of service right now. They could not tell me definitively when these two towers went down, but I have had reception issues for several months and recently (within the past 2 months) experienced serious connection issues such as failed calls or dropped calls. I'd switch carriers for better reception but from what I have read, it appears coverage (or lack thereof) is the same all over this area and Cingular has better calling plans for my use than the other carriers. I wish they would open their SMS services and MMS services to other carriers both domestically and internationally. The merger was a bad idea gone worse in reality. I hope they can fix it soon.

On the beach and surrounding streets the Verizon service around here is very sketchy. You're lucky to get enough of a signal to send a text message let alone make a phone call without it dropping. In my apartment I can get a bar or sometime two on the upper balcony. I barely get one in the bedroom or the back of the apartment. I can stand down in the middle of the street or the wide open beach and have a hard time getting a signal most times. I'd really like to switch to another provider, but it seems that none of the providers provide great coverage all over the Oxnard area here.

Very bad reception going southbound on the 101 near Vineyard. Better going northbound. I had much worse reception driving my low slung car. It is a little better in the Minivan.

Reception is very unreliable. Fluctuates between 1 and 3 bars. Indoor it's zero.

Usually only one bar. Occasionally jumps to 3 bars and then back down. Frequent dropped calls.

No reception inside my home, and 1-2 bars signal strength outside. There is a new tower 1 / 2 mile away, and after updating the phone's program, reception is unchanged for both Sprint and roaming. Dropped calls while outside is the norm. Very disappointed.