My HTC HD2 is working great inside my office and have full bars. So please with it.

Started on June 6th 2011, this has never been an issue. Did AT&T take over T-Mobile towers and eliminate some?

Signal is okay, and I am not dropping any calls. I never fully lose signal, but frequently I am only at 2 or 3 bars, and my data connection drops to EDGE. If I want decent data downstairs at home, I need to rely on WiFi. Fortunately, T-Mobile doesn't nerf their phones' WiFi capabilities, and allows WiFi calling on Androids, so I know I'll always be okay. But reception was much better than this in Colorado.

This is rally bad, I moved to Post St. (right smack in downtown San Francisco) two days ago and upgraded my Blackberry Pearl Flip phone to Samsung Galaxy 4G yestready evening. The reason I updgraded my phone: I had no signal what so ever at my new home! And I moved only 12 blocks away from my old home. My new home is right smack in downtown. So I thought by upgrading my phone to 4G this problem would be solved but NO! I don't get any signals at my new home, I don't get phone signal, 4G signal, internet signal, WIFI signal, etc, blank dead NOTHING! When I went to TMobile store to upgrade my phone I asked the Customer Service girl to make sure that I will be getting a good phone with a great signal reception and off course she said "This is the strongest signal phone at our store and on our map it shows that your new home should be getting excellent signals" Well you know what???? Not true... So now I am puzzled, I don't want to swicth to AT&T and when I called they said they don't know what TMobile's future is with this AT7T merger thing. Totally SUCKS!

I live on Nob Hill and can get PHONE reception up here, but despite living in a studio, my phone rarely gets a data connection in the bathroom. (yeah, I know..). In the financial district I get data about 1 / 2 the time. Many parts of SF (W. Addition, Castro, Marina Green), NO data. ALWAYS the same spots. Not even the crappy "edge" service. Many times it says "E", but there's no connection. Every time I call T Mobile, same thing, they want me to call from a land line to "troubleshoot." Right, so it's the phone that's the problem. Odd how it conks out at same locations every time. SUCKS! What's the point of paying for data service on a mobile phone when there's no service to be had? NO THX T Mobile.

Little to no reception in my house or even standing on my street. T-Mobile told me for weeks (since I got the phone) that it was a technical problem with my tower. Today they "slipped-up" and told me that a new tower needs to be installed to service my area. Very poor customer service.

I never get reception in my basement. Friends come over and can make calls, get calls, etc. My T-Mobile phone is so bad. I have to walk about 300 feet from my house before reception kicks in. I will never buy anything T-Mobile ever again.

there's no reception in my apt. I've just moved in and found no reception at all. T-Mobile said I need to wait 5 business days to get perfect reception, but it's all lie. They never do and can't do. I found my manager's AT&T phone is working well. Just spent a stuid week by stupid lying service with t mobile.

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.

Intermittently fuctuates between 1 and 2 bars; using the phone as modem is impossible.

I get very good coverage at my house. I've used AT&T before and had to sit outside to talk on my phone. My coverage is pretty good in the neighborhood and near home but as I head towards Mission and Valencia in the Mission District my coverage worsens.

Get reception in one very small corner of my bedroom. That's it. Shi-ty.

Just brought home T-Mobile phone and it gets one bar in one room in the house, nothing in the rest. Pretty pathetic in the middle of San Francisco. Verizon and ATT are fine throughout the house. Looks like I have to go switch and go through that whole torture again. T-Mobile you suck.

I was the guy who posted just below. I moved to T-Mobile and it's much better now. I get only 2-3 bars displayed but the sound is crisp.

Fantastic reception in the Inner Richmond and even get full signal in my house and at work in Berkeley.

Great coverage in my top level apartment and garage. Great coverage all around the city. Low levels of coverage in huge parking garages or hospitals... but that's to be expected. The T-Mobile network has been the most reliable for me here in San Francisco and worked fine on recent trips to Veil, Colorado, Santa Barbara, Monterey, and other spots in Norcal.

Find left voicemails with no missed call indicator

However I frequently get left voicemails with no missed call indicator

I have had T mobile for 2 years, the only place it dropped calls was in the Santa Cruz mtns. It has been great all over San Francisco.

Can't receive calls, texts, voice mail alerts while at home. Reception is OK throughout the city and rest of the country. Been using T-Mole for almost 2 years and the problem started a couple weeks ago, never had major issues before, only dropped calls occasionally. I have heard other T-Mobile customers are having the same issue. Switching to AT&T ASAP, hoping for better luck.

I reported that there is no reception at Baker and Fulton on Oct 25, 2007. Nothing has improved. 3 months ago, I called T-Mobile from work and filed a support ticket. No action has been taken. The phone works fine elsewhere. No reception for 5 continuous months is reason to cancel the contract. T-Mobile claims, and my phone's network settings verify that AT&T (Cingular) runs the towers in my neighborhood. T-Mobile claims that they lease Cingular's tower. Seems like they haven't their lease in about 5 months. DON'T USE T-MOBILE. Their coverage map is a lie.

T-Mobile reception INSIDE is nothing. Its no reception, T-Mobile REFUSES to let people out of contracts because of this. You can not get service in ANY stores either. One must go on street and walk 1 block before coverage is aquired again.

I'm not sure if it's just T-Mobile is bad in SF or what, but I get horrible or no signal at all in my office.. I have to use my land line for everything.. it's terribly frustrating. Seems like SF in general might be very bad with cell reception.. for a large city like this I would think the wirless carriers would strengthen and increase coverage... but it would not appear to be the case.

Absolutely no service in my ground-level studio. Even walking up to Noe or down to Mission streets takes a couple of blocks for (minimal) signal to be restored.

After about 10 months of nearly perfect service, my phone lost all reception. Its as though T-Mobile stopped leasing a tower or something. I reported bad service at this location on Nov. 11, 2006. T-Mobile seemed to fix the problem a week later. Now we are back to square one. I have to walk 10 minutes to Haight St. to make a phone call. iPhone here I come.

I used to get good reception here, but have not been able to connect to the network once in the last three days. Is T-Mobile out all over the city? I called their customer service number yesterday at noon, they said they are working on it and it would be resolved within 24 hours, but it is still down.

Variable and Patchy reception at best. No reception for periods of 10-20 minutes at worst. (Carrier claims Excellent reception on their self-authored coverage maps)

Barely anything in the presisdio with Tmobile. Friends of mine with AT&T and Verizon have full reception. I think I can safely assume that T-Mobile is one of the worst service providers.

T-Mobile's EDGE / GPRS "Broadband Speeds wherever your phone works" is AWFUL! I spent $180 on the card for my new Sony Vaio Laptop and $49 / month for the EDGE / GPRS Service. I was told by T-Mobile that it would be fast. EDGE / GPRS is SLOWER than a Dial-up connection! T-Mobile offers no apologies, or a cent of credit for the crappy service. Most of the representatives at T-Mobile don't even know what EDGE / GPRS is. "Is this some sort of thing for your laptop, I've never heard of it." said one lady from T-mobile. I tried Sprint's EVDO, but it had spotty service, and their phones drop calls too much, not any worse than T-Mobile. DON'T GET T-MOBILE OR THE EDGE / GPRS laptop card! Not ready for the market yet, price should be reduced drastically. Oh and to those people who say "all cell phone companies have issues and drop calls", that is like saying all cars break down. Yeah, they do, but Honda's and Toyota's statistically do it less than say a Ford. My point is some carriers are of course better than others. I had VERIZON and the phone worked everywhere, and rarely dropped. CINGULAR (Which is going back to AT&T now... WTF?!) has strict credit requirements, awful customer service, and their phones drop constantly even though the billboards say "least dropped calls", they are terrible. Why can't a company just make a basic phone that works. I don't need to watch TV or use my phone like my iPod. I use my iPod when I don't wanna talk or be near my phone. No real world testing. The NOKIA 6133 I now have from T-Mobile though is the only bright spot. Easy to grip rubberized exterior and push a button to flip it open make it great. Also a durable phone, T-Mobile sucks, but Nokia 6133 rocks.

Dropped calls inside apartment nearly on top of Nob Hill, even near windows. Bad reception on Bush / Pine routes in and pout San Francisco. No service out at Lincoln Park.

San Francisco State University has absolutely horrible T-Mobile reception. Getting a signal indoors near Holloway and 19th avenue is next to impossible! Outdoors I get 1 bar, tried other cell phones with my sim and same deal. A litle better towards the stonestown mall direction but considering how many people go to school there not to mention work there one would think T-Mobile would wake up an imporove the signal. This has been the case for 3 years. I have called them a number of times about this and I still have to go outside to check my voicemails.

T-MO works great in CV. The RAZR is another story. Looks great but lots of software glitches (made by marketing people).

Don't even bother with T-Mobile in the Presidio. Zero coverage.

As of Tuesday January 23rd, 2007 7:15pm I get NO reception. Have been with T-Mobile since 2005 at this address. Service in the house was ok in parts of the house (2-3 bars with antenna extender added to phone). All of a sudden, no signal at all. Contacted T-Mobile and they are not showing any outage. Customer servicer usually is good, but like the signal, that is gone as well. Very disappointed in T-Mobile for dropping the ball. When I asked them if I can get out of my contract because their service just stopped working they said I would still have to pay the penalty fee. It will still be cheaper to pay the penalty fee than wait until contract is up in July. Trust me, I'll be writing letters to J.D. Power and CBS-5 and CC'ing T-Mobile to recover the fee.

I live on the 41st floor of a highrise facing the Pyramid. I get garbled reception on nearly 90% of call from anyone, whatever their location or carrier. And to make it even harder to come to terms with, T-Mobile has a sales center on the corner. They claim it's my choice of phone. Motorola phone with no identifier as to model. T-Mobile has never worked well for me living in Chicago or SF. But was great living in London.

I just moved here and I get zero bars. This block has always been bad, calls are always dropped when I'm driving. But I moved here from a block and a half away. Things were bad at Oak and Buchanan 3 years ago, but they eventually got better. I'm hoping the same will happen in this case because T-Mobile has the best customer service.

OH MY GOD! Why did I sign with T-Mobile? I didn't have a good deal with Verizon, but at least I didn't get dropped calls every minute. Can't even walk around the house without loosing a call. I think it's safe to say that T-Mobile has more retail stores in S.F. than they do cell towers. I was in Pt. Reyes the other day and when I did get bars and tried to make a call, I got some message like 'emergency calls only', what's up with that? My friend has Cingular and he had reception just about the whole trip. UGH!

Why can I get service in Delhi, Chennai, Shanghai, Paris, Oslo, but I need to go outside in SF! Figure it out people!

No reception this is so 3rd world

There is zero reception on my phone in my second floor apartment. Another person posted the same results from the same street intersection on March 15, 2005. Hanging out the window does not help me. The phone suddenly gets reception about once a week. If they don't fix this, I might have to cancel the contract.

I usually got 4-5 bars on Cingular here but now, into my 3rd day of my contract, I get "emergency calls only"; meaning another carrier gets service here but I can't roam here because T-Mobile "thinks" they have coverage here. T-Mobile says they can't even issue a support ticket because I don't have a T-Mobile branded phone. Forget that I have a brand new quad band phone with all high-end features. Forget that the phone gets excellent coverage just a few blocks away. T-Mobile can't have a tech check coverage in my neighborhood, even though I'm a paying customer, and a new one at that, because they want me to have a branded phone. They advertise roaming for anyone within their coverage area on the 850MHz network band. Well guess what? They said I have coverage here... and I guess that's supposed to make it all better. Nobody I know with T-Mobile can get a signal in or around my house but I can't get a trouble ticket without buying ANOTHER new phone with T-mobile's name on it. Complete and utter BS.

WORST reception in SF ever! Great everywhere else but the Bay Area! I go to school at SFSU and the only place I get reception is OUTSIDE every single building! Usually, I have to turn the phone on and off or wait a few minutes just for the phone to find reception! I cannot even get any signal in my garage and there are occasionally dropped calls on the first floor of my house. I'm lucky if I even get 1 or 2 bars anywhere in the city! I can never get reception inside buildings and it seems to be the worst in the Sunset area. I went to Hawaii in the summer and surprisingly gets better reception than here! My contract is finally over and I need to decide if Cingular, Sprint, or Verizon is the best in the city. Choose anything but T-Mobile!

This is for T-Mobile but it is true for Cingular as well. The problem is the absence of any antenna west of 19th Ave. (see map) both side of Golden Gate Park. Manu cellular companies had projected to build antennas above a Church (Irving and 43rd) but a group of citizen petitioned to block that project. Cellular antenaes are dangerous for our health. Probably true but any 10th grade student could explain that such a danger is proportionnal to the square of the distance. At the end, the antenaes above the church has less effect than my microwave oven or my own cellular phone. By the way, do these citizens have asserted the risk to have a 911 call not done properly? Five minutes delay for fire fighters, ambulance or police represent a threat much more consistent than a whole life living at 100 meters from these so dangerous antennaes.

Full bars (7 out of 7) on third floor, west-facing apartment

T-Mobile is the worst. My contract is finally up and I can stop being held hostage by them. I have outages all over on Hwy80, around the city (the Marina District is awful); I find both Verizon and Sprint are better in the bay area for overall coverage. Sometimes even voicemail alerts are as much as 24 hours late arriving...

Poor reception inside apartment. No reception if I have the phone in my pocket or far from the windows. Sometime I cannot get on the network at all until I leave my building.

T-mobile is really really bad. I wish I didn't have a contract with them. Really sad that this company takes advantage of people by not providing the service they should. I come from europe and I have been to many cities around europe. Never had these sort of reception problems. I have to hang out of my window to get reception. Then, depending on the time of the day I might not get reception at all. Also, in the city in general indoors there is almost no reception and outdoors calls drop, reception is minimal. I love t-mobile

For such a densely populated area, there's practically no cell reception whatsoever. Many residents don't have a land line, so it's common to see people walking down the street searching for reception, or leaning out of windows while they talk. I don't think the problem is limited to T-Mobile, though T-Mobile generally has lousy coverage over the rest of San Francisco.

Inside the buildings I got nothing and outside i'd get 1-2 bars. I really need to find a phone service that works in the dorms so if someone wants to help out please post.

Don't go for T-Mobile if you live in San Francisco! The reception is really spotty in the city, my other friends (w / T-Mobile phones, from Los Angeles) encountered the same too. Just go to there website to view their reception map, I think it's quite accurate; most reception in the downtown area along Market street, etc. I live in the 1st floor of a two story house in Sunset, and when I'm indoor, I can only get a little bit of reception at my computer table, but it sometimes went away too! Yes, I got a great promotional plan from them last year ($40 / month, 1000 minutes, free night / wknd) but I'm so glad that my contract is going to be over by the end of June, because I'm definitely switching!

T-mobile, no doubt, has very good reception.

Going west on Pine, I lose reception around Gough until Steiner. It's been happening for years with different phones and different companies.

I get no reception within 1-2 blocks of my house in any direction. Occasionally I'll get 1-2 bars on the top floor of my house while perched in my window and only after searching for a new GSM network. Totally worthless to me. My roommate is also with T-Mobile with a different phone and he has no reception either.

T-mobile is BAD inside apartments. I get reception when I'm away at college, but I get nothing when I'm at home. This sucks. It doesn't even work to sit near the window, I have to walk outside to get reception (and even that isn't great -- sometimes I have to cross the street). My dad has Metro PCS and he gets reception everywhere inside and outside, floors 1, 2, and 3. Let's all get Metro PCS! That's what I'm doing next year.

ok barely any reception... o works great on the underground... all thru from powell to embarcadero all thru the tunnel

I switched to T-Mobile because they had excellent rate plans. Their customer service is top notch, but their service sucks! I've never had soo many dropped calls and dead zones in my life. You get what you pay for, but in this case I'd pay more for better reception.

Don't pick TMobile for your wireless carrier in this area. If you need a GSM carrier you are better choosing ATT / Cingular because TMobile's reception on the street level is spotty at best and at worst it has ZERO reception inside the buildings. I travel often to Asia so I need a GSM carrier and when I switched to ATT / Cingular I found superior coverage. Customer service at the new Cingular has improved since last time I used them (2 years ago) While TMobile may have good customer service, they'll need it because their infrastructure is just so poor.

Reception seems to be much better when I get towards Valencia and Mission street. When I go into Noe Valley, the reception is horrible and get lots of missed / dropped calls. I want to switch, thinking about either going to Verizon or back to Sprint.

Another dead spot, reported to and ignored by T-Mobile

Along this major commercial street there is still no reception after T-Mobile was notified about this problem 1 1 / 2 years ago.

T-mobile SUCKS! SUCKS! SUCKS! No reception in my apartment or at work or almost anywhere. Somwetimes I get my voicemail DAYS after it was left. Pathetic.

Let's face it, every cell provider has it's problems. I have been with Sprint PCS, Verizon, and Cingular in the past and have experienced terrible billing issues, customer service, and coverage. I am now with T-Mobile, and they also have their problems with coverage. However, no more than the other major players. In addition, their billing and customer service are far superior to the competition, and their rates and plans are far less expensive than Sprint, Verizon and Cingular. I am less frustrated by T-Mobile when I do have dropped calls, etc., because I can always call customer service and get right to an agent, and do not feel like I am paying too much money for faulty service in the process.

If you depend on TMobile Blackberry or Treo for your business or you office issues a Phone PDA to you - please do NOT select Tmobile. If your life or business depends on T-Mobile - you are royally shafted because their service coverage is just absolutely horrible. I've lost several transactions because of them, can't connect to my clients, can't receive the information, access my files or get a hold of someone who could. AVOID AT ALL COST

After having to go outside to make or receive a call, I can be standing in the exact same place, and the phone will drop the call. I'm definitely cancelling the before the 30-day trial period ends!

TMobile is the absolute worst bay area provider. Rather they should be termed: T Immobile because that's what you have to be immobile in my PacHeights neighborhood in order to use their service. Problems? Plenty and you name it: drop calls, no signal, no reception, garbled ghost voices, echoes everything and anything. Solution? From them? Not a chance! They blame everything but their lousy infrastructure. You, your phone, the phone manufacturer, where you live and even your household plants and I quote: "Do you have any curtains or plants, sometimes a tree infront of you can block out your signal. Nothing we can do about that." That's just BS and they are full of it.

I've been with T-Mobile for about 3 years now. T-Mobile is FANTASTIC if you want to use it overseas. They have the best int'l roaming rates and a lot of their phones are tri- or quad-band. I have absolutely no problems when I'm in Europe. I travel a lot, so I stick with the problems I have in the States. I also text message a lot, and they definitely have the cheapest text message plans. Yes, there are parts of SF that I get zero or very little reception. Haight Street, Mission / Valencia, parts of Noe Valley / Castro (especially when in sight of Sutro Tower - which I believe affects most cellular coverage). I recently moved from 27th and Castro to Oak and Clayton. My reception inside my house is generally 2-3 bars, but I can hear the calls clearly and I haven't had a dropped call yet. In my old house, I had to stand in one spot and not move the phone around. I'm also using my old, unlocked Sony Ericsson (was my 1st T-Mobile phone) for a Cingular pay-as-you-go SIM, for text messaging to my one colleague in Italy who is on Vodafone. I can receive his texts on my T-Mobile Blackberry, but he doesn't receive my texts from the same phone (we've both tried speaking to our cellular providers, it turns out T-Mobile USA doesn't have a contract to send messages to Vodafone IT). The Cingular card works well for it, but I have to say, Cingular's GSM coverage is not much better than T-Mobile's. Also, I frequently get his texts twice or three times, or he'll get mine twice or three times, and I'm charged for it each time - annoying! My firm is thinking of switching to Verizon's Blackberry service. This will most likely give me better reception in the Bay Area and will allow me to send / receive texts to my colleague in Italy (they contract with Vodafone directly for their European cellular coverage), but what I'll lose is the ability to use my Blackberry overseas, and I might lose the ability to text my US based, non-Verizon-using friends / colleagues. Plus I have no idea how much int'l text messages will cost - T-Mobile is currently $0.15 per message. Someone please, please ask these companies to standardize!

Reception varies between below average and no reception on Lower Terrace and Roosevelt. I hardly ever receive calls, only voice mail alerts of missed calls. I avoid calling from home, except for quick calls to tolerant friends, because calls drops are the norm.

I will get the SMS message indicating a voicemail without the phone ever ringing! Since I am on-call for work, this isnt a good thing. Sometimes I have to turn it off and on to make a call. I called customer service and was told that they "are constantly improving the network." They also opened a repair ticket which "could" prompt them to install more towers... .yeah right! I have been with TMB since day one, and it has NEVER gotten any better with regards to reception, customer service or billing (very hard to decipher the bill)! It may be well worth the $200 cancellation fee to go to Cingular so I can actually get a call!

No bars. Occasionally a phone call will get through. Have to walk 2 blocks sometimes. Neighbor believes is do to granite rock embedded in hill, generating cosmic rays.

I live in on Minna "alley" between 6th and 7th streets, and I can never get reception inside my apartment. Sometimes if I go outside it will jump up to full strenght, but I often need to walk out to the corner on 7th street just to get weak reception. I've had a few friends with Cingulair get reception inside my apartment, so I think it might be T-mobile.

At my apartment on Dolores, between 15th and 16th, I generally get no bars. If I go outside of the building, sometimes I get one bar, two on very rare ocassions. Sometimes I have to go all the way up to Market before reception gets at all dependable.

I get 2-3 bar reception in the east side of my house, little to no reception in the rest of the house.

Get reception only in the bedroom. Rest of the house is a blackhole.

Reecption pretty good inside and around my house. A bit of static sometimes.

I get good reception at home, I lie on the sofa and surf the web for hours. Voice calls sound good.

I live in a ground level apartment along Church St. and get absolutely no reception at home. Also, one my phone loses the network I have to turn it off and back on to get it to look for a signal if I walk outside.

Although I'm in a hilly area, I have line of sight to nearby Sutro tower. Reception is very poor; two bars is the maximum signal strength I receive. Dropped and missed calls are the norm.

Poor reception all day every day at home. Had to switch to Verizon, which as been acceptable.

I cannot get any reception from inside my home unless I'm on the second floor or if I walk outside to my yard where I get 1 bar. I switched over from Cingular to T-Mobile, entirely my father's fault for trying to save a few extra bucks.

Get three bars in building and 4 outside-seem to get reasonable reception everywhere in a several block radius. Rarely is no reception a problem

Very poor and erratic reception in my house- need to walk to outside and even that is not a guarantee of reception / cell phone functionability. I was told by local cell phone vendor (Cingular / T Mobile and Verizon) that all cell phone vendors in my area of Sunset have poor reception - this is due to local neighborhood act a couple years ago that prevented Cell phone companies from putting in transmitter towers (too many 'schools and children'). Not sure if this is the real reason, but I do remember reading about this neighborhood activity against the cell phone companies. From reading other comments in this forum, I see that the general pattern is that every cell phone company does appear to have difficulty with reception in 94116 area though.

Doh! I have no service in my new apartment. I have to walk two blocks to 29th and Dolores to get 1 bar! T-Mobile has always been bad in the Mission / Now, but I didn't know how bad. Now I'm going to have to pay $200 because I just switched plans.

Phone service is so marginal it will ring but drop out the moment I pick up the handset. I have to use Bluetooth to avoid touching the phone. After no change in signal strength for over 6 months I expect no improvement anytime soon to the towers. Will consider (and would advise others) to use another carrier if at all possible.

I live on the 8th floor, and a T Mobile tower is at most 75 feet from my condo, directly across on top of the MCI offices at 274 Brannan St. T Mobile sucks big time! I constantly get a "Network busy" or "Network failure" message when I am talking or try to dial. JD Powers must be able to have been paid off, or someone knew someone becuase T-Mopbile has the rudest and most unhelpful people ever in customer service. And I am ALWAYS nice when I call, they get rude and are totally ghetto people who work there. I once waited on hold for 35 minutes for them to get a supervisor to approve a credit for their voicemail system being down for "maintenence" on a Thursday evening from 5pm-midnight. I missed a clients call I was expecting for dinner reservations. I thought he blew me off until I got an email saying how disappointed he was that I didn't show up later that night. The message was unreachable due to "maintenence" on Tmobiles part. It cost me a $8,500 job. T-Mobile after 35 minutes offered a $5 credit! I waited 35 minutes for $5 I said and told them they could keep it since they obviously needed it more than I did. STAY AWAY FROM T-MOBILE, don't belive Katherine Zeta-Jones... what does she know she married her grandfather.

Intermittent problems - TMobile tower is northeast of concrete building - from 3 full bars(max) when it's on to lengthy periods of No T-Mobile Signal. NOTE: ALWAYS a good AT&T signal

If you look on tmobile's website it says "great coverage" what planet are they on? 0 bars on my blackberry, if i'm lucky I'll sometimes get 1 or 2 on my Nokia 6800

Most of the time no reception. Then you may get a few bars at random moments and then abck to zero

I have a bunch of friends who rave about TMobile, and they do have great customer service, but my reception is kinda bad in my 2nd floor apartment. I think I may try and return the phone as I've had problems receiving calls. They say my area is due for a tower upgrade in the next 4 months, but what does that mean? I've had brief moments with 4 bars, but typical is 0, 1, or 2. In Cole Valley I get 4 or 5 bars. When I am connected to someone, the reception is usually ok if I stay near my south facing windows, but if I walk into the back of my apartment, I start to loose it. For comparison, I used to have Sprint, which worked fine reception wise (I had numerous troubles with their customer service and hate the way you need to use the web browser for SMS)

Inside, very intermittent, with fluctuating reception, often dropping calls. Outside, fluctuating reception, often calls becoming unintelligible. Rare dropped call.

I have horrible reception on my brand new phone. The second I get near my building service goes out. Get nothing in my apartment building. Occasionally I get 1 or 2 bars. Takes several blocks for phone to "recover" and pick up signal again. Network service in backyard is choppy, often busy. Sporadic service in Noe Vally, too.

I get zero reception about 80% of the time in inner mission. I need to switch, but to which carrier? that's why i'm here.

Don't get T Mobil in Noe Valley - incredibly, it doesn't have service in front of their new store at 17th and Valencia

Don't know whether it is the phone or T Mobil - works perfect in Manhattan but in SF very limited service

No reception in my home. When I submitted a question regarding the coverage in my area. I received the following answer. "Your area is listed for coverage improvement within the next six months." Six months?!?! What should I do for now!

T-Mobile is the worst, not only coverage but customer service... nothing but lies

Every now and then you'll get one bar, but generally there is no service for a few blocks around here. AT&T GSM and Cingular users with the same phone work fine here, as does Sprint and Verizon. Only T-Mobile doesn't.

Yet another part of San Francisco with NO T-Mobile coverage!

Inside my apartment (2nd floor) I get no reception unless I stick my head out of the window. Some blocks the signal goes dead, especially towards Masonic.

The combination of T-Mobile and this particular device made it impossible to receive a call inside my house unless 1) I knew it was coming and I could stick my phone out the window to receive it or 2) I wanted to just check messages when I left the house (only then would I get a message indicator.) Don't even think about this is Cow Hollow!

My reception while at home is inconsitant and ranges from below average to poor coverage to long periods of just no reception at all. I have just cutover to T-Mobile from Verizon because I wanted to use a fully enabled Bluetooth phone in my car, something T-Mobile offers. Verizon cripples many of the key features of Bluetooth from working. understand, I love my new BlackBerry 7100t, but it doesn't really matter if it doesn't work reliably. I just placed a second trouble call in a week with T-Mobile because I have had no signal now for over 4 hours. The highly rated T-Mobile support team who logged my last call a week ago and got it working again, just told me in no uncertain words, that is the way it is till they build a new tower in 3 months. T-Mobile told me prior to getting into this contract and new phone that my area had great coverage!

It really sucks that there's no reception while inside a brick building. I used to have AT&T and it worked just fine... I made a big mistake to switch over to T-Mobile because I want a new phone and keep my number. I am very disappointed with T-Mobile service so far. They better improve on the reception inside the building or they will lose customers big time.

I get from 0-2 bars inside my apartment, and it bounces up and down a lot, causing choppy calls. Two bars is an anomaly, for sure. No service is the norm. Heading down Chenery St. toward Noe Valley, the signal never improves. I just walked to my laundromat and it seems like there's a dead spot that runs from my place all the way to 30th St and beyond - no network at all. If you walk up Chenery Street into the Glen Park neighborhood, however, the signal picks up considerably. By the time you're at the BART station it's generally fine (though very little service on the platform itself). Incidentally, I just switched from Sprint and their service was comparably bad in this neighborhood, though I think T-Mobile's is a little worse.

At San Francisco State University.

Perfect reception most of the time. Even inside at home got 5 bar.

I get spotty service at home and zero service in many bars and restaurants around here, even when in a window seat. Example: at Foreign Cinema last night, I couldn't get reception even when I went out onto the street for several minutes. I had to walk to the corner of Mission and 22 to get reception. The phone said "No Service" for several minutes even when three or four bars were appearing on the screen.

Great reception except when in elevator/lobby. Maybe being on the 7th floor helps too.

Signal indicator shows full coverage, but "no access" appears on screen. Cannot make or receive calls.

Very weak reception on streeet. No reception inside home.

Terrible, terrible, terrible.

There's no reception on the 100 block of Amherst St (between Felton St and Silliman St), even standing out on the street.

Great reception. Some interference in concrete reinforced apartment. But, generally clear. Used to have Sprint and never got coverage in my home.

Outside you mostly get one bar sometimes 2. Enough to make a call sometimes. Inside brick building with huge skylights no reception with occasional single bar that goes away as soon as you answer a call. Had similar issue with Sprint before. Customers come in with other services and get great coverage.

I get 4 bars out of 5 when I am out of my house. 2 when I am in my bedroom and 3 when I am in my living room.

GSM does not suck. It's about what phone you get. Also need to pay someone to unlocked and upgrade fireware for you in order to use best service.

Lots of restaurants in this area, and you can't get any incoming calls when inside, as the outside's signal is very weak already... might be the phone though...

Signal strength 30-50%, but good enough to place calls.

Unable to use phone in my house, great reception on freeways, otherwise spotty and unreliable at best. Constant dead spot on top of Fell and Oak.

T-Mobile, the world's largest GSM network, and it shows!