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11 / 9 / 06 my reception with ATT was great. I now have Cingular and the reception has gone down to 1 / 0 bars. I use this phone for business and am now stuck with a 2 year contract with little to no reception. there is a full signal on thousand oaks blvd by hampshire rd.

All of Lynn rd. is spotty reception from one to none bars. Lynn and Janss rd. till the end of Janss no reception at all. It sux cause thats where I live and do most of my business. and dropped calls are very common! I thought Cingular had the "fewest dropped calls" Yeah right-just a selling gimick lying to the customers!

Reception was noticably improved with a change of phone. Sprint drops calls along Erbes toward Ave De Los Arboles. Along Hillcrest Dr. the service is bearable, but signal will fade sometimes indoors. Overall, service is bearable with a better phone. Have tested Verizon (3 bars - very good), AT&T / Cingular (best from what I see), and Nextel (surprisingly very good here - but crumby overall).

In Westlake Village California, T-Mobile by far has the worst reception of any service I've heard of. AT&T and Verizon th best.

I am a couple of blocks away from these cross srreets and get great reception on ATT-Cingular service

There is a dead spot on the 101 Freeway near the transition to highway 23 (Rancho exit). Calls are dropped 99% of the time.

0-1 bars in my apt. Very poor reception near Oakpark Mall. Decent cell reception on Westlake Blvd. and Janss Road. Better reception on US-101. Very few calls dropped on freeway.

I'm on part of the ridge where I can see mountains to the north. The Santa Rosa valley is below my line-of-sight. I can see CLU, but not Wildwood or the Conejo Valley. In the house, I get two bars. Out of the house: three or four bars. The same is true for Nokia phones on Cingular GSM: about two or three bars inside the house.

Around our home (Los Feliz Drive), the SprintPCS reception is lousy. We got lots of dropped calls. Many incoming calls went directly to voice mail instead of ringing the cell phone. We'd get an immediate notification of the voice mails. We'd call the voice mail, get the number, call the number... and then, we'd get yet another dropped call until we found one place in our home where the reception was lousy but the calls weren't dropped. So, I contacted Sprint PCS month after month demanding credit for dropped calls. Finally, a Customer Service person transferred me over to a "technican" who admitted that the location of the cell sites was the problem (I can complain for hours and will call back over, and over). The Sprint map showed proposed cell sites near our home. However, the technician stated that those cell sites were not going up any time in the near future. The technician suggested I contact Customer Service and ask for an early termination of the contract with an early termination fee waiver due to the problem. I had an iron-clad argument and got a supervisor to waive the early termination fees AFTER we ported the numbers to AT&T. Don't cancel your account first or you will lose your numbers. You MUST port your numbers FIRST and then the account will be cancelled automatically. And you must have Sprint put the fee waiver code in BEFORE doing the port. You must also have their permission to waive the fee first. Make sure you get the supervisor's name and employee number and note the date, the time, and their exact words ("applied the codes to waive the early termination fees"). Also, we got Spring PCS to prorate our bill, which they didn't want to do at first. They wanted me to pay a full month's service when we ported our numbers at the begining of the billing cycle. AT&T works fine around our home and it works wherever else we go. However, we hear that AT&T is spotty in the areas we don't go. But, Sprint PCS was great in those areas. So, I guess this cell phone game boils down to finding a phone that works where you live and go. My final comment, Sprint PCS has the highest quality phone call in a good reception area. But, the technology is demanding upon batteries. The AT&T battery will last twice as long and sound half as good. That's a whole nother issue... Also, the AT&T phones suck. The Sprint PCS phones are a lot nice, even the same phone has better options in Sprint PCS phones. But, we need a phone that works where we live and go. AT&T works best for us.

Reception is poor in or around the house. ATT suggested that I upgrade to a GSM phone to get a better reception: "GSM is not using cell towers it is satelite based". A local wireless reseller told me that GSM reception is even worse than TDMA. I will be switching to another carrier when my contract expires.