Was living on Gates / Green until yesterday for 2 years.. great service, no issues.. iPhone 3g with T-Mobile. Moved 7 blocks north, 1 / 2 block east.. and now.. NADA! Going to have to invite peeps over with different carriers to see what I need to switch to!

Living by the beach can have it's benefits, but cell phone reception is not one of them! I have good signal strength on the local streets, but inside my north-west facing apartment the signal is a 1 / 2 bar. And I do have windows. There are just no cell towers to the west, north or south of my area. They are all east of PCH. The odd thing is I can send and get texts... .. just poor phone signal. I asked the local Sprint store and they said "Yeah, signal is poor on s catalina" as a matter of fact. The Sprint sales representitive suggested I buy a signal booster from them for a hundred bucks. I told him it's not my job to get my phone a better signal, it's yours! 8 years with one company, and still the same dead spots exhist. I just don't think the cell phone companies care anymore, they just want you to sell you app's.

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!

I go up the block to Ringe and there is service. On Grant and slauson, there is full bars. But where I am, no bars inside, yet it will ring. They say there are towers around me. I just can't get a strong signal in my area.

Our home is literally in a hole - it's the lowest spot in the neighborhood surrounded by low hills. Verizon is the only carrier we've found with reliable service at the house. It was comical watching a contractor running up the block each time he received a call on his iPhone! That said, even Verizon service is only fair but Droid X reception is much better than that of my previous LG Dare.

I had my LG lotus for a year and it had the worst reception down at the beach. It was really impossible to make or receive calls when at the beach. My old Samsung I had for over 4 years worked great, so I know you can get coverage there. I just got the LG Rumer Touch and it get bad reception too, so I'll be trading it in before the 30 days.

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.

I get disconnected often, and sometimes it just doesn't connect, and sometimes when it does connect, the connection is horrible. That's right on the beach. Most of the time I can make calls throughout the area with no problem. There were some ares down in the low lying streets east of prospect where I would get zero signals. They're really inexpensive, but I'm not sure how good the connections of other companies "really" are.

T-moble is the only one with good reception here...

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.

20% reception in the house. dropped calls no web

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.

Usually 4-5 throughout the house. All floors. It was only 1-2 when I first got it a couple of years ago. But then one day they put in a new tower and it shot to 4-5 overnight! It's the only thing keeping me from an iPhone.

One bar flicker at best. This is a big dead area here... They need to put one huge tower at the top of the hill of 190 / Harkness

I get 3-5 bars all over the inside of the house, usually 4-5 bars can't complain. I can easily make or received calls inside with this strong reception.

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.