In the past 2.5 years, my reception has gone from bad to worse. Today, I have zero bars, "No Reception" or "Searching... " in the upper left corner of my iPhone 3GS. I rebooted it once just to make sure that it wasn't the phone itself. I love my iPhone but absolutely hate AT&T's coverage in this area. In contrast, my friend visits with his Sprint phone and has 3-4 bars and good reception. I'm in a condo building less than 500 feet from AT&T Park - yes their namesake. Wouldn't you think that they would make sure that they had great coverage around a major baseball park in their name?! Steve Jobs, please ink a deal with Verizon soon.

3G claims 5 bars. GSM claims 5 as well. But that itself doesn't match reality. inside building (about 30 ft from windows) incoming calls last for about 10 seconds until they terminate. same with outgoing. no data service.

I have never had a dropped a call in the city. I forgot that dropped calls exist. Verizon is expensive, but man, they have good coverage.

ZERO coverage in the entire Mission Dolores area. Love the iPhone but strongly considering jailbreaking it or moving over to a Palm Pixi on Sprint (I hate the Pre). I would love to move over to Verizon phone but I hate the Droid and the Crackberry.

Just moved 2 months ago from an area within the same zip code where I had consistent 5 bars to this area with TERRIBLE reception. Zero to 1 bar when propped next to a window inside my home, 2-3 bars when outside on the sidewalk. I put in a service ticket and was told T-Mobile has no plans in sight to put more towers in the area. The only option they give me is to get a wi-fi enabled phone, and then I have to add the $10 / month service to use that feature! 4 years as an excellent and loyal customer and now this? I'm shopping for a new service provider.

I am so frustrated with AT&T's dropped calls. drove between cole valley and teresita and had the call drop 9 times. Verizon here I come. AT&T should be forced out of the city for the sHeety coverage that they have been providing for years. I guess telephone deregulation really works. (sic)

dropped calls, no service, scratchy

inside our condo we get no AT&T service. have to go outside to talk on the phone. hope to switch to some other servcie asap.

My phone usually doesn't even ring in my home. Making a call near my Upper Market home is a fool's errand: The call drops every single time. It's necessary to have a land-line in this area because AT&T's service is so unreliable.

Verizon is great in terms of customer service and reception, but their phones kinda suck. The curve is a great little workhorse, but when will Verizon get the iPhone?