I have had Cingular for many years, and have just grown up with it. I think the quality of phones has improved as well as the coverage. within S.F. I can get good coverage almost anywhere Including in elevators (sometimes). I travel around the state some and can almost get coverage anywhere. I was In Japan last year and was able to call out and receive from Cal. It's better than Pidgins!

Inside the house, I can get reception upstairs but as long as I do not move my head. Right outside the house, on the sidewalk, I canNOT make any outgoing calls and cannot even reach 911. I have two more days on my AT&T / Cingular / AT&T account, and then I'm outta there!

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.

One call I have reception, next call words are dropping everywhere and can't hold a call, both receiving and sending voice. Middle of good call, not moving at all, will suddenly shift to poor reception. Lots of problems, and I live top floor of the highest building atop of Diamond Heights hill, no blocking obstacles! I can't do business on ATT! Supposedly option to drop plan if reception problems in known zone.

Frequent dropped calls, calls not coming through, can't place calls. Even when I stand at a window it is spotty. People can't hear me, it's choppy. AT&T is awful. I *hate* them just a little bit less than I love Apple.

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.

Occ dropped calls, but really fairly good throughout the city, also good at some ski mountains at Lake Tahoe

AT&T coverage is the pits in Diamond Heights. Standing in the Safeway shopping center is hit or miss. Garbled reception and poor quality all the way around. AT&T should be payng me for this service. Frequent drop outs all over the city. And yes I can seldom get good quality calls on the top floor of my complex. Cingular used to be better. And it's not just the Razr phones we own. It's the technology that AT&T is using (abusing) and passing off as a paid service. Jeez!

Virtually no or fleeting reception. Calls get dropped constantly. Totally unreliable.

Service in my apartment (Castro and Cesar Chavez) sucks. Only two rooms that even have a chance, and these still frequently drop. Usually have to stand in one spot near window where bars fluctuate rapidly between one and three, and not move at all. Have to go outside for important or uninterrupted phone calls. Also basically no service for a few blocks on Diamond Heights. Had the phone "updated" but this helped not at all. Most of the rest of Noe Valley and the city are usually okay, but reception is often bad, so that I have to ask people to repeat themselves.

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.

Inside my house, I need to stand by the window in the back of the second floor, and even then it's spotty. It used to be better before Cingular merged with AT&T and forced us to upgrade with new sim cards. I know that my son's girlfriend gets reception in our house, but that's Verizon plus a relatively newer phone. Can't tell if it's a better carrier, phone, or both.

Up at the top of the hill on the west side. Reception is really bad on the east side of my condo, and slightly better on the west. I drop calls about 50% of the time. The only thing that seams to work is to stand on the back deck and not move (west facing deck). Then there are just periods of incomprehension rather than altogether disconnecting. I'd switch carriers in a heartbeat if there was one that worked better.

Despite having 270-degree views for miles, we have never had any cell reception here for the past 11 years.

Coverage is good at my apt at Sutter / Presidio but poor to nonexistent here at work. Numerous lost or delayed voice and text messages since plan inception. Also recently am experiencing rapid battery drain which suggests that signal is weak and phone is searching for it. Would switch back to ATT (am ex-Cingular where coverage and reliability was OK using Nokia phone and no lost messages) but complaints seem to be similar, plus they have hiked their plan costs to match Verizon and only offer two year programs now, at least per their website. Grrr.

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.

Weak reception outdoors, absolutely no signal once I step inside unless standing 6 inches from a window

Calls all ways dropped sound is choppy at best.

Reception is generally extremely variable, but far superior to the Cingular reception I had several years ago before changing to Verizon. Reception indoors is not good even on the top floor of the building, which is near the top of a hill. For some reason it's better at the east end of the building. Also, outdoors in the immediate vicinity, reception can vary significantly simply by changing the position of the phone or walking a few yards in one direction or another. With very few exceptions, however, I can access the network and make and receive calls, although it sometimes requires that I move to another room. Dropped calls are infrequent and typically occur indoors in dead spots I'm familiar with. My building is on the other side of Eureka Valley opposite Sutro Tower where all the transmitters are. As with TV and radio transmissions, and whatever else is traveling on the airwaves around here, I think cell phone signals just bounce around in the heavy traffic mix -- off hills, buildings, and streets -- and often it's just a roll of the dice whether your carrier / phone combo works in your bedroom or your kitchen or on your back deck, or only in your left hand when facing north, or not at all. Use those 30-day trial periods to find out and switch to something else if it's not working.