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

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.

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.

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).

I've had piss poor reception with Virgin all over the country. Bought a phone when my old phone got crushed and T-Mobile has horrible customer service. Bleh on both of them. Need to find a decent provider.

Had my new T-Mobile all week here with great service (both Metro PCS and Verizon work here too)

Plenty of bars at my place. Completely useless at girlfriends place on Vallejo (over by Riverside and Broadway by the graveyard). My phone shuts off all the time so every call needs to be made twice. T-Mobile told me to piss up a rope when I called to complain. Switching providers.

Must stand outside to use phone.

Very few reception problems around Sacramento.

It's all about the phone. I have an old AT&T Nokia phone. But it usually gets better reception than most of my friends newer phones. And we're both on Cingular now.

In 2 years I've only dropped a very small amount of calls. T-Moble has been great for me. Good price and good quality equipment and network.

Good coverage most of Sacramento area.

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

Sprint has had the good coverage in Sacramento compared to other providers. I was with Cingular until early 2003, and tried AT&T GSM in early 2003 also. Neither had anywhere close to the reception coverage that Sprint had in 2003, with the coverage being comparable to Verizon in this market. With Cingular, I couldn't make or recieve a call in my apartment or at work (Stockton and Y Street), making the phone and service less than useful. I recommend Sprint to my friends in Sacramento and in San Francisco. Of note, the phone does make a significant difference in reception, please read the reviews before buying.

I just switched to Virgin Mobile (Sprint towers) after being a loyal AT&T customer for 5 years. AT&T's switchover to GSM and the Cingular buyout has really effected the quality and strength of the phone signal, as well as making for horrible customer service. I have had no problems with the Virgin Mobile phone (it is a CDMA / PCS) and have terrific reception and clarity compared to AT&T. Virgin Mobile's coverage is not as great as AT&T in terms of geography, but they have a clear, clean sound. And for 99% of what I do on a phone, it's perfect.

AT&T switched to GSM phones wholesale last year, and since then, and their buyout by Cingular, service has declined dramatically. I can't get a clear signal or connection anywhere. It is so bad that I can actually be standing still at Arden Mall and have the calls drop out on me. I switched phones two times. Same problems. The issue was not resolved with either the Samsung or the LG which I tried. Driving between Yuba City and Sacramento is pathetic. I just gave up trying to use it anywhere and switched yesterday to Virgin Mobile which uses Sprint's network. I have not had a problem with Virgin Mobile's service.

I get no reception in my apartment. I can't even count the number of time I have had no reception in downtown Sacramento. I suspect all the carriers sucks just the same, so I don't do anything, but come on. Outside downtown Sacramento I can get no signal? How pathetic? Is it the phone, perhaps. I have a work phone with AT&T that is an old piece that gets full signal everywhere. I buy a fancy "smart" phone and get no reception anywhere. Is it because Sprint doesn't want me to use they services or are they sending me a message to go to another carrier?? Very frustrating.

I don't think I've ever completed a call from my house, my calls always drop. It's a joke. I'm from SLC, UT and have been with T-Mobile for 5 years and they were great there, but are terrible, TERRBILE here. I had them in San Diego as well and that was pretty bad (though I hear in San Diego all services are garbage)

Varies widely between great reception and poor. I'll be talking with no problems and fine reception and then I'll lose all bars. Frustrating!

This phone has pretty good reception outside my house. Inside I drop most calls. It is pretty good around most of Sacto.