Horrible reception in the Ocean Park area. Some days (like today) there is no reception at all! Have to walk a block outside to get any sort of signal. Do yourself a favor and get Verizon if in the SM area.

God, has an ip4 and ip 3g for 4 years on AT&T. I have rang them continually over past 8 months telling them they have done nothing to improve the service in santa monica for 4 years. Screw them. They have had my premium money for 4 years now and done NOTHING to improve my experience. Thank god Sprint has the iPhone. I don't care if its not as fast, on average I can use my phone for 80% of the day. No joke. I even had to buy a micro cell tower to get reception in my room and they didn't even reimburse me. On average they give a measly 200 SMS messages which should be included in plan a la Sprint, I continually overrun this because I CAN NEVER USE THE DAMN PHONE. My advice, if in west LA, DO NOT GET AT AND T. Get sprint. Im moving. On average I get charged 50 bucks for overusing my SMS. for only 80 bucks on Sprint I can actually get to use my phone, with unlimited data and SMS. I WISH I HAD SEEN THIS WEBSITE BEFORE, BUT THEN AT AND T AHD A MONOPOLY ON THE IPHONE> NO MORE THANK GOD. THEY HAVE DONE NOTHING TO IMPORVE THE SERVUCE IN THE FOUR YEARS I HAVE BEEN WITH THEM.

Went away all summer and returned to the neighborhood to radically reduced coverage since early September

Cell phone was down on and off all weekend with no warning!

AT&T service is down. It is acknowledged to the Los Angeles area when you call in. I heard they were doing maintenance on some towers in the Santa Monica area.

what's going on with reception today? Had no reception at work also (SFV).

No service or searching about 85% of the time. the other 15% my calls are dropped. CAN WE GET A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT GOING OR SOMETHING!?????

Was fine until one saturday, I completely lost connection and it hasn't come back in full ever since. Got the phone checked out says its all good. The AT&T wireless network needs a tower near here.

I usually have 2 bars in the bedroom and 1 in the rest of the house. Calls drop all the time and sometimes can't even find any signal at all. God I hope Verizon will be better!

We just recently moved and in our new building we have 0 reception, you pay a fortune of money for your cell and data package thru AT&T and end up with 0 reception. I'm going to get out of my contract with AT&T, because it is just an awful company. These people are thieves and all they want is your money, without resolving "the no reception" and the many dropped calls. I would not recommend this network to anyone.

I am in a 13th floor building and the quality cuts in and out regardless of the time of day or night. I cannot rely on AT&T cell reception for business or personal calls. I will definitely change to Sprint or Verizon in a next couple of months, moving to an Android. Dated, July 19, 2010

Spoken to ATT engineers. They deny any problem. Neighbors with iphones have no service either. Those with Verizon have service here.

My service is horrible. 80% of my phone calls are dropped. Sometimes no service at all. It's really frustrating when you have an important call and you can't even talk. Like someone waiting outside for you and when they call it goes straight to your voicemail and you don't get the voicemail till an hour later! I don't know if it's my iPhone or the service. It sounds like every service is bad in Santa Monica! What do I get???

We get almost no reception in and around our house on 22nd near Pearl. AT&T says they are adding a tower near near in the next couple months - I'll believe it when I see it. Amazingly bad coverage.

ATT is the worst. Dropped calls everywhere, terrible customer service, and way to expensive contracts and plans. I hope the ATT exec plane crashes into apple headquarters ---

I get almost no reception at all in this neighborhood unless I go up to my roof. I have dropped calls daily--nearly every call over 5 minutes; I've started telling people on the phone that we will likely be disconnected, and that I will call them back if it happens. AT&T has told me that they have great service in the area, and have "no issue" with the towers, but they just have too many people trying to use the service. For some reason this is surprising to them. Idiots.

I have had excellent service with at&t. I have had them since 2008 after trying both Sprint and Verizon and having to deal with lame phones and lost service. I asked a rep to pull up their coverage map and they had towers on top of towers in the area and I get excellent reception all over la. Glad I switched. + my wife loves her blackberry but I am all about the iphone!

ATT coverage is terrible in Santa Monica and south into Mar Vista along 23rd St / Walgrove.

I pay $75 a month to AT&T, which they're apparently spending on commercials claiming they offer 3G service, instead of spending it on actually providing it. There's no reception here, period. I've never been able to complete a phone call in this area... within the first few seconds, the connection degrades to nothing and it's impossible to talk. I got suckered into a 2-year plan, a total of about $1800, for a phone that's basically a paperweight. I have no idea how AT&T gets away with this scam. Do NOT do "business" with them.

Worst cell phone reception ever. AT&T in LA is terrible. In my apartment I get 1 to 2 bars tops and dropped calls all the time. Needless to say there is no 3G. Outside, no improvments. I also work in Century City and the reception is terrible too. I'm going to start a facebook group to join everyone together who thinks that AT&T in LA sucks. With enough people, I'm sure we can get them to do something. Look for it soon and join.