Some of my friends can't understand why I use T-Mobile. They believe the advertising regarding network quality from Verizon and AT&T. At my location, Verizon's service provides one one or two bars and does not always penetrate inside my home. Sprint coverage is fairly good except during afternoon rush hour when you can't make or receive a call because their inadequate number of circuits are in use by commuters on the nearby expressway. AT&T works fairly well at my home, but their coverage throughout the Tampa Bay area is disappointing. While in my home market, is is very rare that drop a call or have a problem making an outgoing call. The other good news is that I am paying less with T-Mobile than I would be with the other carriers.

On good days I get 1 bar, mostly no bars. Sometimes difficult to carry on a conversation inside the house that lasts more than a couple of minutes. Also have had dropped calls and occasionally text messages saying I missed a call even though I had the phone next to me. CS and tech support have tried to be helpful but in the 60 days I've had the new phone, we've gotten nowhere. The interesting thing is, I was an Alltel customer for the last 15 years with absolutely no problems and they were merged into Verizon in early July. They tell me they've taken taken over Alltel's towers and that I should be connecting to the same tower (here at home where I am 95% of the time)but the service is now very bad. I'm very sorry that I canceled my land line at the same time I signed a new 2 year contract.

The reception is poor many dropped calls sometime phone does not ring I use to have T-Mobile here and it was so much better.

Constant dropped calls no bars to two around the whole area. Same with T-Mobile though. Opened several problems with Verizon many calls back but no one actually did anything to help. VZ sales told me every phone was super antennas. The phone blogs say different. Why the constant flux in signal strength ??? VZ says they saw NO DROPPED calls from my phone while there were many that very day. Possibly the towers are OVER BUSY and drop calls\???

I moved to Tampa three months ago, from Jacksonville. My phone has not worked since I got here. If I walk around my house hitting send over and over again, sometimes I am lucky enough to get through but it's very rare and it never lasts (and it's very difficult to hear the person on the other line). I have yet to make it through a phone call without losing service, on those rare times I can get through at all. I gave it a reception rating of 1, because there is a very tiny chance of getting reception. But it is much closer to a rating of 0, because I have zero reception most of the time.

bad signal in my apartment. I cannot use cell inless I go outside.

Great phone, great reception. No problems what so ever. Used to have TMO and reception was a joke in my house. ATT way to go!

6 years of bad service with AT&T 0-2 bars in my neighborhood (Creekwood) with too many dropped calls.

Never had a problem... . Always perfect reception... also my data download speeds are awesome. Running streaming videos on my phone without a problem.

I have been an ATT customer for 10 years and I have had enough! I am a contractor so I work in Tampa and surrounding areas. Westchase is a joke, my house in Carrollwood is a bigger joke. About a one mile stretch of road from N Dale Mabry on Bearss towards I75 is a dropped call nightmare. North Reddington Beach, better be out side opposite the gulf to get a single bar. They may have the best global coverage, but I would just like my phone to work in Tampa first-then I'll worry about Finland!

More companies should come up with this concept, and not just in major cities. I want to work for this company!

Never had any problem with ATnT! Great coverage.

I have to go outside and stand at the end of my driveway to use the phone. Worst service ever.

with the ngage I got great recp but I had to leave with the gophone service just got tired of running out of mins : /

i luv Alltel I use to have tmo and cing / at&t but Alltel so far is the best and their fones are pretty good

Barely any reception, little to no signal most of the time. Never had a problem with T-Mobile until I moved here. Looking for new service.

Dropped calls all the time. Calls frequently go straight to voice mail. Can't have a conversation longer than 5 minutes. If I use my wireless earpiece and leave the phone sitting on a table I have a better chance at getting 10 minutes of decent coverage. Otherwise, it's hopeless.

Never have a problem outside or indoors and have used my cell for 4 years. Sprint works for me

Service is terrible. There are dead spots throughout my home. Also when traveling... .no service in most areas in Ga. Didn't have that problem when I was with Sprint. I may be going back.

I live towards the back of the complex and can only get reception in one corner of the apartment or in the parking lot. Towards the front isn't that much better. Near as I can tell the only provider with strong service in the area is Verizon.