I get great reception. I am right out of Newport. I work in Downtown Wilmington and get at least two bars inside the building. Never had a dropped call. No complaints here, I love VZW.

Have the old 1 cent promo phone from 1998 still works. I have a grandfathered in old plan from T Mobile circa 1995. I have driven all around! the Rt 141 up to 202, you loose signal just over bridge by X station dead til you get in front of Alapocus woods entry (contractor entrance to Site) fine from there up to Faulk rd and over past Silverside Rd there is no T mobile coverage, but you can manually grab onto Verizon their Cust svc says they have no T mobile towers in the area, but the old phones scan for whatever is in the area and let you use it !?! GO FIGURE... Rt 100 from 141 area is good until you go down by Brandywine River to go N to end up by Concord Mall / Naamans area dead zone to top of the hill ~1 / 2 mile... No matter what you have or who with no bars down by Hagley museum along Brandywine river... where the Montchanin Post office is you can get 1 or 2 bars, but 100 feet away by parents home zilch ! bEST thing is to drive where you usually go, and monitor the signal srength so you know where your local dead spots are.. DE is mostly flat so they did very little tower coverage, anywhere there is a long slope with some high ground immediately next to the roads bad to no signal... Concrete apartment buildings or lots of metal buldings block reception until you go outside... We have way too many people who stand outside and scream into cell phones middle of night in residential areas... keep a land line at home! trust me.. no one needs to be on the cell every second of the day and night...

the truth of the reception issues depends on the phone you use with ATT and Verizon really. I have ATT so does my room mate and I get service everywhere.. however she has the new Samsung and she could sit next to me and loose signal. same with verizon. my mother has an older razer and she looses service all the time. my sister has the envy and never looses signal. so phone scoop your phone before purches it will save you a world of trouble. all and all I have few problem with ATT. but I think that has a lot to do with my sony erricson phone, which is most of the reason why I am an AT&T costomer due to the fact that they carry that brand.

Reception is very good for the N. Wilmington area. Also good around 141 and 202 area.

i am a truck driver and on my ride from the terminal in maryland to the Richmond Virginia terminal I use US 301 and I have good service, no complaints here

Always a good reception, few dropped calls on I95 on my way to philly and sometimes in new castle area. But other than that calls are crystal clear 90 percent of the time, customer service is okay if you don't mind calling back to see how many times you get the same answer(to make sure it is the right answer). Very good reception in the house and in hospitals and malls.

Had AT&T now merged into Cingular. Use the phone from my home for business. Few dropped calls. Reception is good for this location.

Use the phone from home. Depends on were you are from inside the house so coverage is spotty. Dropped calls occure infrequently.

Reception is sometimes spotty in my house, while it is generally OK as I get farther away. There are some pockets that don't seem to get the same quality of service as others, but nothing that stands out as being incredibly poor. Cingular's service, on the other hand, leaves much to be desired...

sometimes Reception is so poor. if you are calling from a lan phone to the cell phone you never get connected

Terrible! lucky to get 2 bars yet, the map shows ATT tower less than 1 / 2 mile away

Have to be outside the house to make or receive calls and only get 1-2 bars at best

Several weeks ago my Sprint reception was fine in and out of my house. Then for a while I had roaming charges and was not receiving phone cals. Now I have had no service there or in Kennet Sq area of Pennsylvania,

Constantly drops calls, can't receive or send calls, delayed texts.

I just moved into Greenville Place, and my Virgin phone has trouble getting a signal. I have to walk to the highway to make calls, and even then, they get dropped. I thought this was because I had a pay-as-you-go phone, but looking at these entries it seems like most cell phone companies has this problem in this area. I heard that Sprint has better strategies for dealing with Delaware. Anyone have luck with them?

I had difficulty receiving a strong enough signal to make calls from my home, so I upgraded the phone to one that can connect to my router and get a good signal and that works fine. But if my router is out I can't get a good enough cell tower signal at home to make a call and be sure that it's not going to cut off in mid-call.

The reception is terrible inside the house. I have to stand outside in order to have a conversationa and that doesn't always work. AT&T says there is a tower nearby and I should have great service, yea right!

Spotty signal which becomes unusable in my home.

calls drop all the time, the phone doesn't ring, messages just go straight to voicemail, I tried to complain to Verizon and they said it's the location there is nothing they can do, can't wait to get out of my contract

its amazing that after 10 years and 3 carriers later that its almost impossible to make or receive s cell phone call in this area and no one has made an attempt to fix the problem, but drive 2 miles down the road 100 % reception is possible.Maybe someone can fix the problem for us unfortunate users in this area