Gets good reception... .unless you go deep into the boonies... .I think all the trees and what not mess up you reception... but you still get enough to do everything you need... .in city is usually max reception... so yeah... to bad Verizon shafts you on your plan prices

Metro PCS sucks, 1 year service, lost many jobs due to in house no reception, the battery died in 20 hours due to continue searching for signal, I had it hanging near the window. The roaming is an assault at 0.80 minute. Finally I soaked it in the tube. Now I am reading your comments to see where am I going to bet my luck again. I think I will go with T-Mobile prepaid, just in case I have to soak it either. I really dont like the 24 months commitment, if it wouldnt work id get a heart attack... .in T-Mobile I will bet 10 bucks, if it work ill put a 100, thats 0.10 a minute, almost the same money, and you have a year to spend it. Wish me luck. Best regards, thank you for your comments.

I have problems with Cingular every since they merged with At and T. No reception at my job unless I am outside away from the building. At home. forget about it. I have to sit on the RIGHT side of my bed to get a signal or go all the way in my backyard. Cingular says it might be the phone. They suggest I UPGRADE my phone. (ie more money for them). My next cell phone is going to be two dixie cups and a string.

Everytime I drive arround the area my call drops

Signal is great in Miami, Doral, Orlando and Ocala however the worst service ever. Drop calls left and right. I am always on the phone. I had about 10 dropped calls a day in Orlando. In Miami and Doral I had about 3-5 dropped calls daily. Driving on the turnpike - dropped calls constantly. MetroPCS sucks, Sprint sucks, TMobile is good for the money however too congested. Prefer Cingular or Verizon.

I travel everywhere - Metro Zoo area is great. Doral area during rush hour - forget about it - garbage - network busy - I can't make calls nor received. In Orlando the reception is average - 2-3 bars. In Ocala - reception is low and in homes none at all.

t-mobile is great I think you should try it

Reception changes within my house. Most of the time calls drop. I have to make most phone calls outside. T-Mobile needs to put another antenna around this area.

I have no signal for my Blackberry inside home. My wife has the same phone and we can't talk to each other unless we look for a particular spot to receive 1 bar of signal inside our apartment. We called Nextel and they said that there are 8 towers in this area and that they were calling network technicians to re-position signal to our home. This is just frustrating ! Thinking about returning our phones since we are on 30 day trial !

Calls dropped frequently when entering the Tuttle Causeway (I-195) on the Miami side's bridge. You will get disconnected while going over the bridge in most instances. I wouldn't recommend initiating or continuing a call until you have gone past the bridge.

I had full reception with my prepaid account with T-Mobile (Nokia 6010) Now I moved to postpaid with new feature loaded T-Mobile SDA. I get coverage without any problem, no dropped calls, but its not as good as my plain innocent Nokia-6010 I feel these smart devices become smart at the cost of poor cell reciver / transmitter units... just a thought, not techie enough to get any deeper..

Family with multiple carriers. This area (West Kendall) is notorious for being a reception black hole. 2 phones on Sprint with 1-3 bars that can be used in parts of the house within 10ft of the windows. 1 company phone on Nextel which works only at the windows. 3 phones on Verizon that are totally useless inside the house, must go outside to make calls and must run outside to answer the phones or the call drops upon answering. These three phones are different models, so clearly, "it's the network" as their advertising states. 1 phone on MetroPCS that works flawless. This is ridiculous when all the other major carriers are technically useless. Used to have Cingular TDMA and also worked flawless. No idea how Cingular or T-Mobile GSM work around here, but my guess is reception probably sucks too.

Reception here is perfect, but only here. Everywhere else in kendall, I get one maybe two bars and when I enter people's houses, I get no bars!

Very poor signal around Brickell. Cannot complete calls when inside building. Used to have no problems with Sprint PCS... .

With Cingular, barely any reception in Miami Shores, in fact, my cell won't even work inside my home. Drops calls constantly. Cingular sucks.

Zero to one bar no more. When I called Cingular they were surprised, Oh! What a surprise, in Miami! That was all, no solution.

I have been living in the same area with the same service from T-Mobile (VoiceStream) for five years. I use the cheapest phone from Nokia they sell and I get the best reception no matter where I go I never had a dropped call. The reception is perfect and crispy clear.

I don't know why people are complaning about T-mobile. They have the best rates EVER. I get 5 bars everywhere in the office, at home and in elevators even in DISNEY! crowded disney world I got all my bars and ALWAYS was able to make calls.

Drops, slow response, terrible quality- got even worse after Nextel merger.

On I-95 from the Opa-Locka exit north to the Golden Glades area, you lose service almost always.