Terrible reception at all times from home, a couple of blocks toward Cowles Mtn from here, and throughout the neighborhood. I think much cell reception is poor in this area because the towers are just over the crest of Cowles Mtn and obscured (from us) by the peak. Need a new tower on Navajo at Lake Murray Blvd! Impossible to carry on a phone conversation via the AT&T cell network from here--call quality is terrible and drops every minute or two. T-Mobile was *much* better--worked all the time from home. Unfortunately the iPhone got me, and only AT&T has the iPhone.

I would rather have no reception than poor reception, because the amount of dropped calls I suffer is insane. I ALWAYS have trouble with Verizon, and so does my wife, all over San Diego, but especially the South Bay area. I don't know if it is the Motorola (we both have that) or Verizon, or a combo of the two, but I cannot wait to dump Verizon.

worse reception

2 / 5 bars at best when near south window. Roaming in the rest of the house. Frequent dropped calls.

Reception drops on the 52 freeway east of Santo road until Mast Blvd.( santee 92071)

To the March 1 post about ATT, its not your phone, dont waste your time. Between my wife and I, we've tried about 5 different phones the past few years (3 different manufacturers), and none of that solved the problem. Its their poor service. It used to be fine 2 or 3 years ago, however, ever since Cingular started pairing with ATT the signals have gotten worse. We get a highly variable signal in San Carlos (which is up on a hill, no less, where you'd expect great reception) that ranges from zero to 2 or 3 bars at best, even standing outside in the parking lot. Our calls are dropped constantly, and we almost always have to use a land line now when talking from home as its nearly impossible to hold a conversation longer than 20 or 30 seconds, if that. In other words, our cell phones are useless for anything when at home except texting. Funny thing is, we've gotten much better reception calling in a relatively remote location like Yosemite Valley than we have in the middle of a city of a million people up on a hill! I've called Cingular / ATT at least 6 or 7 times the past couple of years and have spoken at length to their techical people as well, and nobody can solve the problem, which I keep telling them is that they simply need another tower! Here's a kicker: during one extended call to technical help (over 30 minutes long), the call got dropped 3 times! Twice the rep called me back (I said "see, I told you"), and the third time, only about 20 seconds into talking to a manager, the call got dropped again, and he never called me back... hmmm, go figure. They are always nice (at least the people I've spoken with) and will sympathize to no end, but they will string you along forever because the reality is they either cannot, or refuse, to upgrade their signals. One rep actually suggested that I work with local officials myself to get a new tower in our area! Can you believe that? Asking a customer to do their "dirty" work? You can come to your own conclusions on that one. When our contract runs out this year we're dumping ATT; I cant imagine that any other carrier would have worse signals in our area.

I very rarely have a dropped call. There is one place on the 5 near La Jolla where calls sometimes drop but even that is pretty rare.

I had Verizon from 2002 till 2007 and had one dropped call in those years. The sound quality was great, it was like talking on a landline. I got reception everywhere including in three story underground garages. Then the Iphone came out and I had to have it. I purchased it at the end of 2007 and have since dropped about 5 calls and I don’t use the phone portion all that often. The talk quality is horrible and the coverage is average. I do not get reception in that same three story underground garage. It was the same bad quality as when I had Cingular in 2000 / 2001. If I had to relay on my phone for business I would definitely have to go back to Verizon.

In the last 3 months - the coverage has become unmanagable - I almost NEED a land line at home now. I have the same AT&T no bars reception issues as the others - no bar IN my house, have to stand outside to get the first nub bar, then few mins in and the call drops, of course that is after 10 attempts to make the call. I called AT&T teh support - they said they have been working on the network in the Point Loma are but havent seen the improvment they hoped for and that they have an "excel" spreadsheet with the complaints. As a bonus to customers, they actually noted my account to say that I wouldnt be charged the early cancelation fee if I termed the contract and went to another carrier - Yep, thats thier solution! Now I have to find a new carrier and Ive been with them since 2000 !

I can get no more than 2 bars here. Usually 1 bar unless I go outside on the patio and EVERY single one of my calls get dropped at some point. Horrible reception.