Had Verizon, no bars. Had repairman at house who was on cell phone, he had Nextel. Switched to Nextel, now have 4 bars easily. First time been able to use my phone at my house. What a relief. Highly recommend Nextel for Black Forest area. Reception in other areas of Black Forest and the city is great as well.

The signal indicator keeps jumping from no bars to five bars. Once I am on the phone the sound quality is quite poor. I often cannot make a call because I get a “network busy” message. My phone can switch between analog, TDMA, and GSM, but the signal strength is always low. Phone always says “Cingular Extend” which means I am roaming. Thankfully my plan has no roaming charges.

9 out of 10 times can not make or receive a call from house. Even outdoors I am lucky to get 2 bars. Verizon coverage maps at their store showed this area and the whole Black Forest covered. When I specifically asked what signal level the coverage siginified, I was told at least 3 bars. I get 1 bar 90% of the time and I am only 2 miles from I-70.

This is true before the Cingular merger and since then also. Any time I get a call and I'm in the Ivywild neighborhood, I let it go to voicemail now. I can not hear them, they can't hear me... Why pay for the minutes? It's a waste or time and effort!

LG 4015.. could be the phone.. but I get terrible reception throught the Springs area.

Changed from ATT TDMA. Reception did not improve. Not worth trying to make any important calls in this area. Desperately looking at changing service, if only because of lack of service from ATT / Cingular.

I am so unhappy. I went from reliable AT&T TDMA to Cingular GSM after the change over. I can get 5 bars in most of town but I can only talk for about ten minutes at any point before the phone drops the call. I have never had a call that was over 15 minutes that didn't drop. The bars dwindle to 1 and then the call drops. As soon as the call drops the phone goes back to 5 bars. AAAAARRRRGGGGH! This is the second v551. I had the first replaced as a warranty problem after 25 days. This happens in Denver / Aspen / Colorado Springs on the highway / at my house etc. I really want to go back to TDMA, it worked and only dropped when there was no tower. Now I am stuck with a 2 year GSM plan. Never again.

I have to stand in upstairs window to have a chance at keeping call from disconnect. Verizon says they have "future" plans for a new tower in north Colorado Springs... hope it's soon!

Actually this is west of the intersection. Reception goes from 4 bars to 0-1 as you go west on Vickers 0.1 to 0.2 miles - you are entering a valley, but it is wide open to the west.

Reception here has been bad since 2000. They say that they are adding more 'cells' but no change has been noticed. Changed to GSM and nothing changed.