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Horrible coverage, and I'm downtown San Francisco. I barely one or two bars and calls are constantly dropped. At times my phone won't even ring and goes directly into voicemail. if someone leaves me a voicemail I don't even get it until a day later...
I get 1 bar of 3g but that is only until I try and use it. The phone usually pauses for 10 to 30 seconds as to tries the 3g and then eventually falls back to edge. Basically any incoming call requires waiting for all of this to happen before either of us can communicate. On an outgoing call it takes 30+ seconds for the call to go through if it goes through at all. It isn't the phone. It works better in other locations that are less populated.
Poor reception in home. Need to move from one room to another to find good reception. Often unable to hear clearly so end up missing at least a quarter of the conversation.
Castro - Eureka Valley near 18th and Market. Dropped calls or straight to VoiceMail. Dropped packets - garbled when calls do go through. Impossible to give up landline. 3G nonexistant. Edge erratic and uselessly slow. Ask for 50% rebate on your data plan as their map shows 3G available everywhere.
Seems like in the last year the phone reception on our AT&T Tilt has really gone down hill. We can barely hear callers now from our house. It used to be this way with Cingular a bunch of years ago from our house, which backs up to West Portal, but then after AT&T came along reception got much much better. For some reason recently the Tilt gets awful phone reception, but we have an older Nokia model that gets great reception. I'm chalking it up to the Tilt not handling the calls well, but the whole thing doesn't make sense.
Reception goes form 3G to Edge when I sit at my desk and use the iphone. Called the AT&T Service Center to so advise and they didn't seem to understand that AT&T needs to beef up their network in the SF area to accomodate all the iphone traffic on their network - the Tech blamed the poor coverage on the SIM card / iphone hardware. Duh. Seems lake the dropped calls are increasing and the 3G speed is decreasing since I upgraded to 3.0 and the 3GS was released. I swithched from Verizon to AT&T for the iphone. No doubt in my mind theat Verizon has better coverage (wish they had the foresight to make the deal with Apple rather than let it slip to AT&T).
Horrible coverage city wide even over earlier ATT blackberry phones. I assume it is a poor 3G network. The spotty service makes it an unusable phone for business or commuter calls. We must have traveled back in time.
