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Very unreliable and poor reception,there is Very bad reception inside of buildings,have to move from room to room in my house in order for my phone to barely work
Reception a complete joke. I can rarely send a text message or make a phone call, even when I walk outside. Atrocious cell coverage - worst in the city. Actually, the bad coverage area is quite significant.
The worst service I have ever ever had. Changed from Sprint because of the nasty customer service, and wish I hadn't. We spend our lives keeping the other spouse from throwing the phones against the wall and then stomping on them.
I never get 3G reception in the sunset district, and in my apartment I never see above two bars with dropped calls every call, depending on where I'm standing in the building.
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.
Terrible reception everywhere I go. Frequent dropped calls. Once dropped, can't make a call for 10 minutes, as the network is "no service" or "emergency only." I think ATT should be sued.
Sometimes 5 bars - but not for long. Then I can't understand what the other person is saying because only one in three words is audible. Or the call drops. Sometimes if I run the the street side, I get reception. Then I run to the back side to get reception. Then to the park side. I'm exhausted! Called AT&T and they wrote down something and sent it to someone - I felt oddly appeased (do they put something in the water to calm us down?).
Very spotty reception indoors. My living room looks directly at Sutro Tower through 12'hx16'w glass ; yet I can watch the signal strength (it should read 'weakness') like watching a sound meter mostly stuck on 'No service') If the iPhone manages to receive an incoming call, it goes to vmail before I can grab it. Then, the voice mail is delivered 20-30 minutes later. When I walk over to the bus stops on Roosevelt Way, it is always dead. On the bus it is very spotty until we get closer to Cole Valley / Haight Street. Based on the many reports from others in this vicinity, it seems as though ATT can't be bothered to improve, especially in an economic downturn. I wish Apple had done a little more research.
Very poor reception. Dropped calls etc'. Dropped Sprint for the iphone. Love my iphone, but it's almost useless as a phone at my house. Very annoying and weird since I live in the geographical center of SF.
