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no reception at all... not even at the top of a hill or mountain

Sometimes when you are up against a hill or high condos like in the Pier Bowl area, reception can be spotty. I got my I Phone activated at the AT&T store at North El Camino Real / Palizada. They are very helpful-Ken and Troy. 10 stars each. For a low tech guy like me they were very instructive and took time to explain. There can be a wait at times, but it is worth the wait.

This is unreal, that a community this large has no ceel phone servce.

I have used Cingular for 8 years and no problems. I purchased a home in Talega and now I can't use my cell phone.

No reception from halfway up Hermosa from the freeway all the way through the Reserve until coming out the other side on Camino de los mares - in the Reserve I have zero reception and can only get some reception in 2 upstairs rooms of my house. As far as I know, nobody gets reception in here.

(with GSM) On Pico, at and before La Pata: Five bars! Great job! Full reception in Walmart, Albertsons on E. Pico at shopping plaza, back to the H.S., EZ Lube, 7 Eleven. Excellent up and down El Camino, no issues. No complaints before Pico and La Pata. On E. Pico, past La Pata at Camino La Pedriza: Bad. Poor to zero reception in doors. No one that has visited us with Sprint, T.Mo, AT&T / Cing, Veriz, whatever service or model, they don't get reception indoors - maybe one bar if you stand in a corner with your face to the wall. Outdoors, 2 bars. If there is no tower here, it would be nice to have one. We could drop the landlines.

There are a lot of people who I'm sure need this service.

Almost no reception - I am wondering why Cingular does not fix this. I am sure many people in Talega work from home and would like to use there cell phones.

At first I thought my Ericsson T-18 was at fault with it's insensitivity so I wrote to ATT and they sent a Morotola v60 Color TDMA to me free of charge. I get no reception where I live with that phone also. It is not just because of the hills preventing line-of-sight transmission, because both my sons and two of their friends have no reception problems with their cell phones (all other companies than ATT). I conclude that ATT is on an austerity trip that precludes allocating funds to install a cell nearby. Of course they won't admit to it.

Had another service, rated in 2006... porting to Sprint. Ported one so far, and we have reception inside. Three bars inside means we drop a land line from the other carrier - we have two. Only problem is that you have to take Sprint's phones, they say. I did but just to get started... but it's worth it to have a cell phone and drop the land lines - I even got reception in the garage - 2 bars. I can get reception in the kitchen, the hallways, the bedrooms and bathrooms... And I was told by the other carrier that the lack of coverage was due to the type of structure / material used to construct. Further down by Mingee's, Starbucks and Albertson's, 5 bars. So overall, this is the coverage I've been looking for.