Data Reception was excellent for the first few months of operation last year, but since the first of the year I have not been able to stream my favorite public radio stations and TV news. Constant "insufficient Bandwidth" messages.

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.

I love my phone, but my calls drop all the time. Overseas with the phone, I didn't have that problem, so I assume it is a lousy set up by Cingular here. I want to move back to Verizon which never dropped calls for me in SF, but I'm not looking forward to the cancellation fee.

I can't talk in my own home without dropping a call. I've called Sprint, and they cannot do anything to help me. I may have to switch to another provider (I've had Sprint since 1998!).

NEXTEL excellent, swear by it beats out any provider in the city of San Francisco, highly recommended.

I get five bars all the time in our basement apartment.

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 at all. People who call me go straight to voicemail. The only good thing about Verizon is full reception inside malls, restaurants and buildings. Had to switch to T-Mobile and altho I finally get reception at home, there is no reception inside of buildings and restaurants! what a headache...

No reception this is so 3rd world

Good reception on Twin Peaks using Verizon. I'm right below the viewing platform, and across the street from the Rooftop elementary school. I generally get pretty good reception almost anywhere in SF. The reception is also really good the whole way down Hwy. 101 from SF to Mountain View

I have had Sprint for over 10 years now. About 4 months ago, my phone started dropping every call. I got so fed up with it, that I considered changing services. I called Sprint and they looked up my account. They said that they could update my telephone. I called back in a half hour and they gave me a number to call. My phone was updated and has NOT dropped a call ever since. I'm keeping my Sprint. I didn't even know that you could have your phone updated. If your phone is dropping calls, call customer service and Sprint will help you out.

5 bars on the street but two bars indoors with some incoming calls going directly to voicemail and some calls being dropped

great reception Verizon usually work nationwide for me... I travel coast to coast

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.

I cannot make calls most of the time. And often, if do, they are dropped within minutes.