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.

horrible reception right at my building, dropped calls in apt. was never a problem with the old phones pre-pda / smart phone.

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).

Building without concrete roof with very very little reception, sometime cell phone connect but line in or out can not hear from other side.

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.

Rarely any reception. Regular missed and dropped calls.

Dead zone for about a 5 to 6 block radius. Spotty at best even when you go down to the Mission. AT&T is terrible. I want Verizon with the iPhone, never had a problem with Verizon, don't know of anyone having bad coverage with Verizon

We have 3 ATT phones and none of them work well. Reception was Ok with 2 bars until about 2 weeks ago. Now I am lucky if I get 1 bar and the call doesn't drop. Since I use my phones for business, I will unfortunately need to cancel my ATT accounts. Do NOT sign up for ATT until they get the service improved in San Francisco. (a small town just north of Cupertino, CA - Apple... ) Verizon is much better.

I have 2 ATT phones and they both dont work. Reception was Ok with 2 bars until about 2 weeks ago. Now I am lucky if I get

Occasionally I get one bar of service, if I stand with phone against the window of my apartment. Mainly though I get my messages by walking a few blocks away towards downtown.

Awful. No 3G. Dropped calls multiple times a day. The pits. I miss Verizon. : /

I always have good service in the city. When it comes to customer service, they are average. The main thing is I dont get dropped calls like I used to on ATT. I have thrown two phones out of the car window when I had ATT, it was getting too expensive to have my calls dropped every 5 minutes. Waiting for the Palm Pre and staying with ATT. If Verizon had the Iphone, I would move to them.

Overall good service, esp compared to my ATT phone. Glad I checked here*before* getting iphone.

Crummy reception, dropped calls, fast-busies - whatever that means (overloaded cell site?)

4 months ago I was the talk of the town. In fact, I was the only person in San Francisco to have the paparazzi following them 8-12 hours / day. now that i've moved to cole valley I aint got sheit. no friends, no family, no stalkarazzi - why? no cell service. no opportunity to give the paparazzi the 'heads up' on my next location. no friends to call to party. no family to brag to. at&t has dropped the ball in this neighborhood. for real.

Get reception in one very small corner of my bedroom. That's it. Shi-ty.

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