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Nearly no reception and usually got cut off. Lots of missed call. There are new housese being built around the area and I think this is the main reason. Need to build more towers.
Verizon has great reception for me around 1st and Julian area. I saw T Mobile's coverage map and it looks like service is spotty around parts of downtown. I don't know much about Cingular though. Verizon's price is higher than the rest, but, I can't afford to have no coverage (I have no wired line).
Zero to 2 reception in condo, I have to leave building for any reception at all. In car reception can be from good to zero depending where you are driving. It seems reception is better west of Senter. Spotty on 101 or 280.
although I hardly get dropped calls, my reception at my house is retarded. On average I have about 2 bars. At times it will jump to 3 and dropped down to no bars. Being that my reception is low my battery will tend to drain quickly. The good thing is I rarely have dropped calls... about 2-3 a month. Sprint has made a big improvement around my area. I used to get endless dropped calls. I would call up and complain and they would rationalize saying that "oh its the structure of the building." in response to that I asked so why do I get dropped calls outside and they had no absolute answer. On the website I checked the coverage map of my place and it said best service. I think that this is quite misleading because they forget to mention that you have to be on roam to get the best service. i've only recently found out that I would get a full bar when I placed my fone on roam. But the disadvantage of being on roam is that you dont receive your voicemails and text messages so theres really no point. I dont think its fair that they concentrate on bigger cities like Los Angeles. If you look at their coverage map they've got like over a 100 new towers while we in the south bay only got like 4. I guess they forget that a lot of the people who work in the city live in the subarbs.
Getting just 1 or 2 bars on my new Motorola Razr phone, that too depending upon where I stand in the living room. As soon as I wander off into the kitchen, there's no reception. T-Mobile customer service wasn't any help either.
Choppy Reception from Cingular. Looking to swap carriers because the reception is so un reliable. The call doesn't drop but people cannot hear me and I cannot hear people.
