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I live behind the club house and get great reception on AT&T. I had Verizon and dropped calls all the time...

I rented an apartment and then noticed when I went in there that I have NO SERVICE whatsoever through AT&T in there. I was shocked. How can they even be in business when they're offering no services? What a scam. It's not like we're on the coast up North or something. We're in the middle of a big city. It's inexcusable.

Coverage is decent, but ATT has horrible repesentatives and customer care!

Reception is entirely poor on an always basis. Reception bars are a joke, they occasionally show 3 but instantly disappear. 3G is non existent in my building. I have to go outside and walk a half block to even hope for reception. I'd comment negatively further except it's mostly already been said. AT&T reception completely sucks. Several in our office building have bitten the bullet, changed over to Verizon and have NO issues whatsoever. Come on, AT&T - get your very well paid engineers to fix this. It's rediculous.

Have ATT. Sometimes calls do not connect. Get at best 2 bars inside building although that fluctuates and sometimes I look like I'm performing some sort of voodoo ritual to get to the exact nexus where the signal will be strongest. Sometimes I get three bars outside the building but that is rare. I'm in an industrial complex area so you'd think they would have towers up the wazoo, but no they don't. Oh, and don't even think of watching video or getting fast video downloads; they are impossible. I get good reception at home finally; live in Carmichael. Contract is up in October and I'll change carriers then, but only after a lot of research. They can read license plates from twenty thousand miles out in space but they can't give us good cell phone technology. Cell phones are just another money sucking super black hole.

What service? Pay these guys hard earned money for "SERVICE" that is non-existent. Time to wake up AT&T and deal with your poor performance.

1 - 2 bars outside home; 0 - 1 bar inside. Frequent dropped calls, caller sent to voice mail when I am home, network not available, etc.

AT&T reception sucks sooooo bad it makes me not even want the iphone anymore. Dropped calls left and right. And the bars on the phone are lies that randomly just go up and down. I have had full bars with 3G service may times while calling a land line and it still has bad reception and cuts out. I'm about to just get a ipod touch for the apps and go back to Verizon! Even Metro PCS has better service than AT&T... AT&T you suck ass!

Southbound 99 to Southbound I-5, calls always drop between Elkhorn Blvd.and Del Paso Blvd.

Dropped calls all over town--from downtown Sacramento to Citrus Heights to Elk Grove. Too often calls won't go through when dialing. Contract is up in about 6 months--will probably switch back to T-Mobile since we had pretty good luck with them a few years ago (before smart phones were so big). I'd like to check out Verizon, or maybe Sprint, but they are both really expensive (we have 4 phones--2 with data, all 4 with texting).

Don't you just love being in a major city, where you figure you'll have cell reception because there will be lots of towers without pesky hills getting in the way? Then don't get AT&T and have the audacity to drive downtown on L and expect to not drop your calls. Every major city I've ever spent time in gets crummy service with AT&T, Sacramento is no exception.

Phone Service varies from NO SERVICE to 3 bars in the house. Outside varies from 1 bar to 3 bars. Frequent dropped calls when answering. If I find a good spot I do not move from it from the duration of the call. Similar to having the old wired home phone. I frequently call back on the land line. AT&T suggests I spend several hundred dollars for a "tower in my home" - what am I paying them $$ for wireless and data service for? iPhone 3G shows 3G, but responds slowly - often drops to Edge. I usually just use it on my wireless network. My contract with AT&T is up in 2 months and I am shopping around.

I get almost no service in my house. when I signed up 10 years ago they told me that they are installing a tower at Rio Americano High school which is just across from us. but that never happened. the service SUCKS.

Often calls sound like they are being made under water. Calls are constantly dropped. AT&T should be forced to stop making best coverage claims in their ads.

only carrier we get service with in the house. tried tmobile, Verizon and sprint. having a choice would be nice...

Bars inside and outside vary from zero to three. Calls drop about 50% of the time. Even Sprint is better here.

Get 1-2 bars when I move around the house with black holes throughout the house. Some spot get zero bar even when outside the house. Sucks!

I get absolutely no reception at work at the UCDMC which is strange because I understand that there is tower literally a couple hundred yards away.

I get good reception in part of the house. As for Greenhaven's lack of a cell tower, supposedly they're building one or have built one on Riverside, using the Palm tree look. Not sure when it goes live, but I'm hoping it will help.

Cell phone service is bad for AT&T as well as for NEXTEL. I complained to AT&T and was told that the Greenhaven / Pocket area has no cell phone tower. According to AT&T the Sacramento City Council will not allow any new towers to be built. I have to walk out of my house or stay very still to get reception. Heather Fargo and company can all look for new jobs next election! That goes for the basketball candidate as well!

NO reception at all, none in my house, one of the worst carrier in the area, along with T-mobile, which gives 0 bars also.

Usuall 4 or 5 bars, occasionally 3. I am very happy with Cingular. I switched over from Verizon a year ago, because in the prioryear I had alot of trouble with disconnected calls when in this neighborhood. Both companies have good phone support, but IMHO Cingular has better service overall - both with phone usage and with support.

It's somewhat erratic. Occasionally I get one or two bars, but much of the time there is no reception. At my office, ten blocks up Broadway, it's only a little better. I'm looking for a new provider.

In our apartment complex we have barely any reception whatsoever. Every once in a while a call will come through, but if I take it call it either drops the call or I can only hear one of ever three or so words. Both me and my gal have RAZRs, and I have tried a Samsung phone as well, but to no avail. It's terrible.

One bar at home. Drop calls all the time, if I even get them. Half a mile in any direction... 3 bars or more. Typical routine is to drive away from my house and find that I have 3 voicemails. Even in three bar zones, I've been told that every fourth word is cut out. Don't get Cingular service around here! I complained about service and they told me that they don't gurantee "conectivity".

No reception with a SLVR L7, 3 bar signal with a RAZR.

Bad reception inside and outside of house. Do not receive calls and unable to make calls.

Cingular sucks in this region. Every time you try a call - it fails the first time. If you are lucky enough, it connects the second time. Usually, you have be patient for a third try. After you get connected, you've got to shout into the phone like you are talking to some one on Jupiter or Pluto on old simplex, co-axial networks. Finally, all your hard work pays off, and you will understand how frustrating it is to ask your friend to repeat what he said, everytime. I'm not feeling the least pain to break this contract and jump to a new carrier. I'm with this carrier since 3 yrs, lived around Washington DC, recently moved to Sacramento CA. Carrier and coverage was never a problem in all these 3 yrs, but now - the biggest pain.

Great reception in all of Sacramento. Worse in Lodi area. Cingular's customer service is evil. I bought the phone when I moved from Stockton to Sacramento. They sent the phone to the new address and the bill to the old address. They then deactivated my phone due to non-payment. I called and they reactivated and waived the $35.00 reactivation fee. The next month they sent the bill to the old address again. I had no way of knowing when the bill was due (internet was not set up in my new house yet). This time they would not waive the reactivation fee even though it was THEIR MISTAKE. I spoke with the manager, but still no luck. Cingular's customers pay for their mistakes! Also, my bill is around $10.00 higher per month then they quoted me and I use about 100 minutes less than my limit. Phone roams EVERYWHERE!

4-5 bars all the time, oh and it is about the phones. I had 0-2 bars with my v400. And once I got my razr. So many bars. I go all around Sacramento with 4-5 bars.

Cingular's reception is really terrible on this part of Folsom Blvd.(from Watt to Bradshaw). Calls are frequently dropped and the reception bars frequently drop from full reception to none. I'm lucky if I get 2 reception bars in this area.

Formerly contracted with AT&T which Cingular bought out. I had better service with AT&T, then when Cigular came on board, my bars went from three to one. As of 10 / 02 / 05 something changed; my phone shows no service and I have to drive 3 miles to get a signal. The funny thing is that my wife's Cingular phone shows 3 bars of coverage and we're in the same house! We're both GSM. Cingular says because her phone is on the Orange Band which has Towers within 3 miles of our home. My office cell phone is on the Blue Band which is supported by a Tower over 10 miles away. I think Cingular is going to lose a customer.

Very good except, for some reason, the new development area, its not way out there but low reception fore sure

Coverage is very intermittant and I have never completed a call without some reception trouble.

I have Cingular with a Motorola V3 Razr phone. I get perfect reception here and very crystal clear connection.

I have full bar where I live and always get good reception. But I do remembe a call being dropped. Maybe it was beacuse of the other cell phone. Cingular does not have this address under my billing plan. I wish I could get reception when I am inside Jackson Casino. It's usually one bar or no service there.

There is something fishing going on with Cingular Wireless. I always get dropped calls even though my phone shows five bars out of five bars. I'll be talking then all of a sudden, beep beep. Call is gone. This is annoying, I makes me wonder what the point of having a cell phone is if it always gets dropped calls. I use my phone for business purposes and people think I'm hanging up on them. Cingular has exchanged the phone twice... and I'm still having the same problems. Go with Sprint instead.

Great reception everywhere except at home, maybe it will improve when the merger is complete.

Great coverage (3-4 bars) if I'm standing in my driveway or out in the street. Coverage gets worse as I get closer to my house and sometimes no coverage indoors. Cingular has cool plans but pisses me off when I can't use my phone in my own room. Considering switching to either T-Mobile or Verizon but doing more research first.

Varies inside the house, but seldom is reception good. Sometimes reception is okay outside the house. Good reception several blocks to the east of my house.

Sometimes gets one bar in reception outside. Inside, mostly no reception.