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On i-280 between SF and Palo Alto calls drops every few seconds. Good for a few miles then drops again.

Outside my house in silicon valley - 2, inside 0. Not worth all the money that went into development of smart phones on a dumb network...

Have never been able to finish a call with out it being dropped. Unable to dial out 50% of the time. AT&T is simply unusable in this part of Palo Alto. I am stuck in an expensive contract for another year. Let's hope I don't need to dial 911 for an emergency.

terrible reception inside my home, marginal in many locations if it wasn't for the iphone itself I'd have left AT&T long ago

Terrible AT&T reception inside house, while friend with T-Mobile gets great reception. AT&T okay until ~4 months ago, then tanked. AT&T Rep said they were aware of "tower problem" but no estimate for repair.

my phone won't ring most of the time while at home or in the yard. horrible reception.

Terrible reception in my College Terrace home (and yard). Calls fail over half the time, so I walk a block away to get better reception. This has been a problem for well over a year, and AT&T is aware of the problem, admits to it, and suggests I go to the AT&T store, pay $150 for a gadget, and then $20 additional each month so I can talk on my cell phone by using my Comcast internet service. Seriously!?

Okay at my house, then I drop calls all over the place. AT&T sucks the big one in Palo Alto. I'm switching to Verizon or Sprint as soon as my contract's up in a week.

Unbelieveable - ATT in the heart of Palo Alto is awful. Dropped calls all over town.

Store says they would love to erect a cell tower, but the city won't license it. Political pressure is warranted. Less complaints people more action. The cancer crazies and visual aesthetic people are ruling now. Most are old and don't see the need for a cell phone, their land lines are just fine. They want the land line for that final 911 call. They vote and are community activists.

Amazing... Silicon Valley... the place were new technology is created but the local governments can't afford to roll it out. Hows that iPhone work now? This place is just falling apart.

Brand-new iPhone 3GS, and AT&T provides no coverage.. it worked slightly the first day when I tested to make sure I got a signal, but since then coverage is non-existent. Sprint coverage was great... what a mistake.

Drops calls all over town. AT&T is terrible in Palo Alto. No reception at all inside my home. Very limited reception in the area around my home. AT&T map shows 3G service area.

Drops calls all the time. Sometimes no reception at all. Sprint worked great thru out Palo Alto. AT&T is terrible in Palo Alto.

poor reception; frequent dropped calls in building. will probably change to another carrier... Verizon maybe ?

goes from 3 bars to 1. quality is OK sometimes, and terrible other times.

Consistently bad service. Oscillates from No Service to one bar. Takes several attempts to send a text message. For calls that go through voice quality so poor that even saying "call me on my fixed" is difficult before the call drops. AT&T says its a known bad area and there are no plans to improve it anytime soon (why are they not putting a new cell-tower on the new Community Center on Charleston Road?!)

My old TDMA phone doesn't only have much better sound quality, but it also has a better signal than Cingular's GSM.

Cingular has a lousy signal at this location. Half the calls don't even connect. Works okay across the border in Mountan View, though. I've driven to Costco a couple of times, when I had to make a call that had to go through.

I live in 484 james road, palo alto where Cingular has a very bad reception. Works great everywhere else, so I am sticking with the service.

I had Cingular TDMA before, but my husband lost his phone and can not get replacement TDMA phones at the Cingular store, so we switched to Cingular GSM. We now have the Nokia 6102 and the Motorola flip phone V551. I dont know how much our problem has to do with the phone, but I am quite possitive that the problem rest a large part on the GSM service. Our calls are dropped on a regular basis now, compared to almost perfect reception with the TDMA system. Previously, I have not miss any calls for 2 years (AT&T, before and after bought out by cingular). I work in Redwood City and lost more call there than I am at home, again, no problem before. My husband has the Nokia 6102,and he also has lost calls. After reading the post, it sound like the service I currently have is just average, not below average, for the area, though less than acceptable.

I get a good amount of bars... The clearness of calls varies a little

The closer I get to my home near Meadow and Middlefield, my bars stop dropping. I get no signal in the house! My husband has a different phone but also on Cingular and he'll get maybe one bar, so not much better. Also drops around 101 and 85 intersection.

Signal strength varies dramatically depending on which tower I pick up: 0 to 2 bars if it's the tower identifying itself as "Cingular," 4 or 5 bars if it's the "AT&T / Cingular Wireless" tower. Alas, there's no way to tell it "never mind, I'll just wait for the better tower." Also, much of Alma between Meadow and Oregon has no signal at all. Still, much better than before the merger with AT&T.

There is barely any reception at all near and around the lucie stern center. Or through out Palo Alto for that Matter. Terrible. It must be a location problem since during a recent trip to atlanta georgia, I had 5 bars. everywhere. in the fox theatre, inside the biltmore hotel, it was great.

In East Palo Alto, there is VERY poor service, especially west/south of the police station, approaching the wreck yard and baylands and those autobody shops.

In Palo Alto, except for certain bad spots or indoors, I rarely lose a call while driving around. Not so great at home, but enough for service.