We often have very little signal if any in our home or on the property. It comes and goes. I purchased an AAT micro tower for inside or home but that doesn't really work all that well and has very little coverage in the house when it does work. My impression is signal is poor through most of Hope Ranch.

Sometimes calls or messages don't arrive on my phone, or the phone does not ring but there is a voicemail, etc. but overall good reception. Am on a hill with direct line of sight to cell phone towers in SB. Get 3 ev bars and 3 tv bars.

I have absolutely no qualms with AT&T in Santa Barbara. Coming from Denver Metro Area, with excellent reception from towers mounted on tall buildings, I've noticed very marginal, if any difference in Santa Barbara. I had some issues with my last phone, iphone 4, but I think the improved dual antennae design has helped things immensely. I think you guys with crap reception should look at the devices you're using and consider changing to something a little better.

Verizon rep just left my house. There is no reception here. Bounces from 1 Bar to None, impossible to make or receive calls. The tech agent said, simply, to return my phones and cancel my plan. "Verizon is aware there are significant areas without coverage from Santa Barbara through Montecito to Summerland and Carpenteria. They are refunding my money. They say there are no plans for new towers, the only way to fix. The guy reminded me that no one wants the cell towers near them, but then they complain about no coverage. Point taken! I offered up my front yard. Insane. I get one bar with ATT, none with Verizon. Next up is Sprint, and I am worried.

Drops all the time. "Outages" where signal disappears entirely an hourly appearance. Smoke Signals would be more effective. I am very frustrated about cell service. Worse, I travel, and to be standing in downtown Los Angeles and to get 1 Bar on ATT is beyond belief. Happens everywhere, and the locals have same complaint.

Impossible to use phone. Drops constantly, no data, cannot hear conversations. Completely useless.

For telephone conversations, the reception is usually "Good", but the new Internet coverage is horrid! They sold me, saying they would be setting up 4G in the area. 3G was working, but it totally gone now, and they refuse to even explain why! This has gone on for almost a month now. 2G still works, but very poorly.

i can't use cellphone at home at all. It's big problem.

Poor reception (1 bar at most) inside the house, slightly better on the street or just up the street, but never more than 3 bars.

My signal is very week but usually good enough for voice. My data connection frequently drops out, or falls to 1X bandwidth. The problem in Montecito is that the local property owners are resistant to any cell towers being put up.

I can get 5 bars from my second level of my home, but 0-1 downstairs and out around the yard. My AT&T aircard cannot work reliably from home at all.

Generally, good coverage. Driving through SB County there are several areas where coverage drops but only momentarily. Amazingly, I am able to talk while driving thru the tunnel in Gaviota. Data transmission is even better as I can still transmit with zero bars. I moved to AT&T from Verizon despite many of my friends telling me Verizon has better coverage but I have found that not to be the case. Same amount of areas with poor reception, just different.

Could barely get reception here. I literally had to stand on one foot with my hand up in the air just for the phone to get the time synced. The coverage maps, though, say I should be able to get Mobile Broadband. I'll give Verizon a pass this time, bu only because people with other carriers on the fishing boat I was on had no reception whatsoever.

I have many dropped calls--nearly every call. Terrible service on an LG phone.

We used to have GREAT reception until about a year ago. At that time ATT gave up their contract with T-Mobile and ATT STOPPED their signal from the T-Mobile tower at San Marcos Rd and Via Los Santos. Now our cell phones are useless at home and around the neighborhood.

Very good coverage in Santa Barbara.

I got "NO" T-Mobile receptions most of the time around the area of Patterson / Hollister. Also when I am inside any buildings in Santa Barbara / Goleta areas, the T-Mobile cell phone receptions are often very weak or none. It's very frustrating. I can't wait for my T-Mobile contract to be expired. I'm thinking of paying the penalty of $200 and get ATT or verizon. Please advise. Thanks.

generally reliable in house and outside not good north of costco / winchester canyon, or half way up 154 bars fluctuate for an unknown reason: have had as high as 4 and as few as 1, here near downtown

Reception in this area has been degraded since the Jesusita Fire several months ago. Talking to the techs at 611, they didn't really have a clue, so I went into the local store and they said many people from this and the San Roque area have been into complain. What they've learned is indeed a major cell tower was destroyed in the fire and they brought in a "cow" - which they explained was a portable tower on wheels. The degraded service was a result of that temp / portable unit not being as powerful (..and maybe not as tall?) as the orginal one that burned. No one at AT&T seems to know when the permanent replacmeent tower will be built or done.

Good coverage throughout Santa Barbara. Line sometimes is not clear.