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Whether inside or outside, the reception is very poor in this area (north and west of the Delaware Art Museum). Cingular doesn't seem to care about the problem, even after three reports of problems over the last two years. Does anyone know how to get Cingular's attention? Does anyone know of a carrier that provides better reception in sip code 19806? (We'd jump to it in a flash!)

Reception was adequate on my old cell phone (Siemens, also from Cingular), but my new Samsung X497 disappoints. Calls to Cingular resulted in a small improvement. We wait, with fingers crossed, for improved signal strength.

With the old Cingular network I had adequate coverage with the change to the Nokia 6200 I have none.

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?

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...

No reception in my house unless I am on the second floor... .then I can get every other word. To use the phone I have to go outside and then lose about 50% of calls

Never get reception, it always shows Cingular as an network to choose from but it then tells you you have no acces to this network. I hate T-Mobile, and Cingular is deffiently one of the best

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

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.