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AT&T cell phone service is ATROCIOUS for my business phone in the Esplanade area of Redondo Beach. AT&T refuses to let people get a waiver on the early termination fee because the CEO of AT&T realizes what a piss poor network he has. I have filed a complaint with the FTC and set up a blog warning new residents to the Redondo, Hermosa and Manhattan Beach areas about the low quality AT&T service. Not going to waive the early termination fee because AT&T is too greedy with money? Then let's see how many people I can discourage from getting an AT&T phone in the Beach Cities areas with my SEO expertise. Screw you, AT&T, the battle has only just begun!

Service 'available' but usually unusable / unreliable for the most part. Voice / data overage is mostly better a block or two away in most directions but ATT coverage remains deficient. ATT needs to add, at least, fill sites in this area. It's no better than it was two years ago when it was to be 'improved' and remains erroneously reported as strongly covered on ATT's voice and data coverage maps.

Never have a problem at home and I rarely have problems around the area. There is a spot on Manhattan Beach Blvd. near El Camino College that my calls drop. Otherwise, I have no problems.

Nearly gave a 5-bars, but on the rare occassion I have reception problems, but they might be due to the cell phone on the other end. I switched from Sprint because of *awful* signal... had to go to 2nd floor to hope for reception and had *no chance* of reception in the basement. When I found out that Cingular (now AT&T) had a tower a 1 / 4 mile to the west, down hill from my home, I switched hoping that their tower would paint my home better. My hunch was correct, and now, I can make a call anywhere in the house... in happy-camper mode. I didn't make a entry for Sprint because the information would be so old.

Signal consistently dropped from my house such that I have to walk outdoors to have a conversation. Once I had a friend trying to reach me -- he called four times and it went straight to voicemail; no indication of any missed calls on my iPhone. When I was with Verizon I very rarely had any reception issues.

Switched from Treo with Verizon to iPhone with AT&T last Sept '08 solely because of the iPhone features. Initially reception in my house was good until a few weeks+ ago. Now it's useless trying to have a conversation on my cell phone while at home... I'm going back to Verizon if AT&T doesn't fix this problem soon.

I seem to get good and bad reception. Many dropped calls and choppy conversations. Seems to work much better in early morning and proceeds to get worse in latter part of day. Not sure if getting a newer phone will make the problem better.

Used to be 5 in my house until a few weeks ago. Now reception wonders on a minute-by-minute basis between 5 and 0. Call quality went way down, disconnecting me often. Called AT&T but they said 4-6 weeks to check out the area.

AT&T gets 1 bar if you are lucky when you are at the pier or the condo's behind the pier. When you look at the tower map you can see that there are no towers in that area.

Older Samsung phone on ATT's older network was fine, but upgraded to the Samsung Sync on what ATT called their new network, and service has gone from 3-4 bars to 0-1 bar, and only when I'm outside on my balcony. Indoors I miss most calls. ATT said it was my SIM card, but they changed it with no improvement.