Often have no reception in my house on 15th ave, possibly due to location on a hill. Somewhat better outdoors. Switching to a GSM phone with ATT / Cingular; we'll see what happens.

I got 1-2 bars of reception in my home with Nextel. Changing to Verizon has been fabulous, both in my neighborhood as well as throughout San Francisco and surrounding environs. AT&T (TDMA) seemed like next best from feedback from my friends, but amazingly seems to be getting *worse* after the Cingular merger?!?

Very poor reception. It's difficult to have a conversation and I have to continually ask the other person to repeat what they've just said.

Signal constantly drops. Very poor reception in my home. So bad that I can't actually talk to anyone. Good reception at work and fine in the city and on the freeways.

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!

Sprint reception and transmission has been quite reliable at this location and generally good around town. Calls get dropped occassionally along Dolores south from 19th to 30th. All in all, I'm reasonably pleased with Sprint both in the Bay Area and travelling nationally. I've tried many services and they all have weaknessess; Sprint seems pretty good. The current worst in this area is AT&T GSM. (Their analog service was terrific but expensive.)

My calls get dropped while driving on Diamond Heights Blvd.on my way to Safeway and 50% of the time driving up and down Market St.just north of Twin Peaks Blvd. At my home in Forest Hill, I get 1-2 bars in my living room and 0-1 in my office. I started with AT&T's GSM plan last Jan 04 and it was miserable, now it's just bad. I am planning on switching to Verizon. I'll report back if it's better or worse.

Verizon at home works anywhere in the house, even in the basement. Usually have great reception all around the city. For some reason, on the corner of Castro and 18th, reception is bad. May be all the power lines above (not knowledgable about powerline effects and cellphones). Also have Blackberry 7280 with AT&T / Cingular for business. Only time it works in the house is if I'm at the front of the house on the top floor. Not sure if it's because it doesn't have 900 MHz GSM only 850 / 1800 / 1900). Drops a lot around the city, especially on Divisadero between Oak and Market and near the Presidio.

Just changed from AT&T TDMA to GSM and it sucks! Too bad I didn't see this website first. The pre-merger TDMA was fine here but after the merger, it was spotty and plenty-o-drops. We changed to GSM in hopes of better service but it's even worse! Avoid AT&T in this area! Thank God for 30-day money back guarantees. Verizon, here I come.

Finally, a carrier with coverage in this neighborhood. AT&T was bad. Cingular was non-existent. Verizon has 5 bars all the time. Also 5 bars inside our thick walled office building in SOMA. GSM is cool but what is really cool is receiving calls and being able to make them.