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Cingular was a nightmare! Poor reception, and no reception in my house. They overcharged me every month, and it would take many calls to Cingular's customer service (each lasting almost one hour) to resolve. On average, I called Cingular's customer service about four times a month... for a total of about four hours! Don't fall for their great advertising like I did! I switched to T-Mobile, and everything is MUCH better. T-Mobile may not have as nice phones as Cingualr does, but that is a blessing, because you can go on the internet and buy any GSM phone you like, and it will already be unlocked! I beg you to noit get Cingular. They overchrged me over $700 one month (I had a discounted international long distance plan, and every month, it would disappear mysteriously), and when I complained for the 10th time in one-and-a-half weeks, they said they will give me "the benefit of the doubt" and only make me pay 50% of it! :( So, I had to pay about $350 when all I should have paid was around $80. They were JERKS to me on the phone, they didn't care that I was a customer for almost five years. I felt so good when I finally dropped their service, and I encourage everone to please sign up with ANY carrier aside form Cingular. By the way, keep this in mind: My sitiuation is not unique. From searching the web, I found out that many people have had the exact same experiences with Cingular, and have gotten similar results. Aviod Cingular at all costs. You will regret the day you signed up with Cingular! Their advertising and promises are FAR FAR different from what they deliver in the real world!

Signal is terrible, even when using a GSM 850 phone. I only put '1' bar here because I can occasionally receive a signal on my phone, but it's rarely good enough to send / receive calls or text messages. In contrast to this, just 2 miles further south in Cupertino I have a full signal, even indoors.

I just moved to the area(Sunnyvale) and have very poor reception in my home. I have to walk out to the street to receive 2 bar reception. I connacted Verizon and they say it's on my end and that their engineers have noted that the are has good coverage. Now I'm looking for another carrier.

Excellent reception, even inside the buildings, using V551 on Cigular Blue.

Sprint PCS with a Sanyo (sorri, I don't know the exact model #) seems to do fine in my apartment. I do have dropped calls from time to time, but I never had any missed calls. I am happy with it.

Reception with Verizon in the Valley seems fairly consistently average. I can make / get calls most places, even inside buildings, but do get dropped calls - perhaps 1 in 10. Largest annoyance is dialling a number and waiting up to 30sec before the call is put through - perhaps 1 in 3 times. Overall slightly better than AT&T (before the merger) which I had previously and had dropped calls perhaps 1 in 4. Overall I would rate both services as poor-average. Verizon phpne choices are miserable. Perhaps time to change again.

I get almost no reception anywhere on the Yahoo campus.

I have to upstairs to get two bars. Phone never rings I only get message beeps. Sucks at work as well San Jose at first st and 101.

Cingular (AT&T) TDMA, very poor reception. Cannot talk indoors, voice beaksup and call drops

Very good here and elsewhere in Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Campbell, Palo Alto, etc. No dropped calls. Voice quality is almost always clear. Signal strength drops in a couple of spots along Mathilda Ave., but it's strong in most locations where I've checked so far, including inside buildings and under freeways.