Service has been good here for years; now it is terrible. Calls take forever to establish and often drop after a few seconds. It's bad on the highways, too. Time to change carriers, I guess.

some dropped calls and bad reception.

I get anywhere from 0 (zero) bars "Network Search" to 1 bar (lots of dropped calls and lots of direct to voicemail). The worst cell coverage ever, next to none at all.

Just perfect recpetion never been any nappier.

Great signal at and around SJSU..

No reception on the street or in my home. It may show a bar or two but when you answer it drops the call.

Great, but this phone after prolonged usage, buzzes and buzzes everywhere you go... it's like a GPRS leak or something THE BUZZING!

Not bad in this area for Cingular, although if you are inside or near a building, reception tends to fluctuate some. Cingular is WAY better than T-Mobile in this area. My friend came over to my house and he got NO signal whatsoever on a Inno 90 phone. I had a average 2 bars out of 4 in my house on the Nokia 8390. This phone is only single-band 1900mhz. If I had a dual band phone, I could imagine i'd be getting more signal.

Once you turn onto Delta Rd. there's just no service. After past Ruby on and off reception. Anyone have better carrier then Verizon around this area. Thanx...

Cingular recently (mid-2004) installed a tower in the Knob Hills shopping complex. Since then, I have perfect reception in my house... Before that, I got zero signal.

The signal in my house is practiclly non existant depending on what time of day and what day its is there are days upstairs in my office I will have 2 bars other days nadaa and the part I dont get about 1 / 2 mile away there is a repeater tower that belong to Verizon I have a few friends that use Verizon and they have same problem in my house but once you walk out of the house its all good I guess my house dont like cell phones

perfection reception underground and excellent up in the mountains. I will never replace Verizon wireless! perfect reception damit. JUST PERFECT

Avondale St. and Bollinger in West San Jose (95129) I have been very happy T-Mobile customer. It ringed everywhere in the US, China, Singapore, France, Geneva, Mumbai etc T-Mobile does not ring in my home or outside in San Jose. The repeated calls to their service has fetched no success. They offered me a 50 minute free time which is kind of useless if there is no reception. Anyone recommending other carriers for the above cross street?

Terrible reception for years. Logging a trouble ticket again with Verizon. Unsure if fire station next to Pearl Ave. library has anything to do with it.

Great reception. No problems within 5 miles of here either. No complaints so far.

perfect 5 full reception compared to other carriers!

This is a bad spot for almost all cellphone carriers, as on one side are hills and almost no cellphone coverage. Used to have Verizon (LX 4400). Very patchy service at home with call drops within one minute. Did the *228 thingy a few times, but no better results. Now switched to Cingular GSM and its amazing. Not only can I now hold a full call without call drop, but the call quality is amazing. It even passes the ultimate dead zone test (driving on Yerba Beuna between San Felipe to 101) and I was talking the entire time, without a single call drop or call quality impairment. It usually shows 2-5 bars at home. Some calls do get to voicemail without ringing, but over all much better reception than Verizon.

Since Cingular took over AT&T's towers, reception is great. All over San Jose I keep calls and never lose a single one. I've had Cingular for years and it would tick me off when I'd go up into the back hills of silver lake and have ZERO reception, now I have 4 bars!

needs a signal tower here or close by. Very bad signal reception. Even after the switch to Cingular towers, no good still. Maybe I have to switch to Cingular? I doubt there will be any change...

I just signed up a new phone with Cingular for one year and get a new Motorola V180 phone. It work well when I used it on the streets one mile away from my home, but within one mile around my home area, I cannot receive any phone call or make any phone call, even I had 4 bars showing on my phone. I went back to Cingular dealer but they told Cingular just install a new tower in this area, however they cannot fix my problem.