As someone else said, I think reception varies with phone. With my previous LG phone I got much poorer reception. Through the Newark region especially to the south and east I usually get five bars plus 3G.

I have never gotten good reception with Cingular. I recently moved from the Eklton area to newark / Bear area and thought the reception might improve, but it got worse! I get maybe half a bar, if I'm lucky. If I try to make a call, I often get a "call failed" message. At this point, i'm better off with a cup and string. Oddly, I get full bars at the Elkton Wal-mart. AT&T sucks!

Works ok outdoors and just barely indoors The signal flunctuates from zero to 4 bars. Does the same for my other phones, but with never goes below 1 bar for the nokia.

Works ok outdoors and just fair indoors

I have never had a problem with my cell phone anywhere in DE, with the exception of through the valley around Montchannin Rd and Thompson Bridge Rd., even in Newark I get good reception. I have one of the least expensive phones and plans - LG VX 5200. The voice quality on this particular model is another story - just is not clear. My old model phone with the same carrier and plan was great... .but the phone bit the dust.

I HATE Sprint! Their customer service is the very worst. No 2 employees will ever give you the same answer. If you get upset they will just put you on hold, if you threaten to cancel they don't care. I was told that I qualified for another line on my plan, took time off work, picked out the phone, and was denied the activation and no supervisor cared what I had been told. They sent bills to the wrong address, denied my upgrade eligibility due to my recently servicing my phone (say what?!), overcharged for additional services, and the list goes on and on. Avoid Sprint if you don't like snakes.

Little to no signal inside or outside homes along Polly Drummond Hill Road. I see a new tower pole was added at Polly Drummond Hill Shopping Center at Linden Hill Road, but there's no equipment installed on the tower pole.

it hovers between 0 and 2 if I stand at the window Unbelievably bad service for a prime business hotel

Northwest of Newark, still in Delaware but almost Maryland. Poor signal strength most places but I have never actually lost a call.

I've been a Cingular customer since 96. I've watched my service rapidly decline in the last year. Even got a new phone, thinking it was the problem. Multiple phone calls to Cingular have not improved service. Customer service, while very pleasant, have not been able to resolve my reception problem. My next step... after complaining since March, is to switch this phone for another of the same model. I don't think it's the phone and neither does Cingular, it's the coverage. It works great down in Milford, Delaware! I'm very upset that I've been paying for almost 6 months now for a phone that is useless in my own home. With 18 months of contract to go!

I just move to Deleware from Ohio, previously I had no major problems with my wireless service. But since I moved I never get any incoming calls, I can make outgoing calls. When ever people try calling me they always get the message "All circuits are busy". I have taken up the issue with T-Mobile and though their customer service agents are very courteous the end result is that problem is not solved for the last one month. Also my phone seems to have a brain of its own it just goes blank, no mention of which network or atleast a message of "No Network". I can never switch to Cingular service where both T-Mobile and Cingular are available. T-Mobile... . think twice before enrolling with them... .

Dropped calls at this intersection. Same thing with Nextel.

I am west of UDel about 1.5 and all the cell companies admit this area has NO cell service. T-Mobile suggested I forward my cell phone into my home phone when I am at home. Wish I could find even ONE company that serves this area.

I have no clue what you people are talking about. I get perfect reception on my 6230 and I got perfect reception with my 6200. Even at work or deep in college buildings I always I much better reception than others. I've only found one room in the deepest reaches of one of the buildings on campus that doesn't get reception. BTW Nextel and Verizon users look quizzical when I whip out the 6230 and place a call.. they never have reception.

Horrible reception since Cingular bought AT&T Wireless. AT&T was much better. Calls drop frequently, static on the line, and overall frustration. When you begin to make a call with full service, the service all of the suddent drops to none. Making a call out of here is virtually impossible with Cingular.

Phone cuts out at this intersection all the time... Verizon...

It never works inside aparments unless you are next to the window, if you go deep inside any buidings, you will lose all the signals, at work at the hallways I get 2 to 4 bars, I place a call, and lose all the bars. customers service is OK, I have been to places where my phone does not work at all and see people talking on their cell phone (Nextel and Verizon most of the time).

Cingular rocks in Newark. I used to have Verizon, and they are awful here. Cingular has a site on Cleveland Avenue, and near Applebees (rt 4 and Elkton). Cingular recently bought out ATT, and Cingular can now use ATT towers, they are located ontop of the Chrisitana East Dorm (New London Rd) and at rt4 and 72 intersection. Cingular gets full reception in Pike Creek too, where Sprint and Verizon are dead.

There are no cell towers in Newark! I was told this by Nextel and Verizon, and Verizon said they were working on the problem. That was 11 months ago and nothing has changed! Once you get into Newark, it's like you've gone into a radio-free tunnel -- no cell, no push-to-talk, nothing. If one of the cellular providers came to Newark and put up a tower and advertised it, they would be flooded with nearly every person in newark who owns a cell phone. I wouldn't mind paying to break my contract if this happened because right now I can only use my phone if I am NOT in Newark!

No reception or very poor andy where around the New Linden / Polly Drummond area... including Skyline Drive.