Almost Have 5 bars everywhere I go. Will never go back to Cingular. Coverage sucks.

My phone either roams or cannot find service inside of my apartment. When I walk outside, the phone roams or it picks up a faint signal. Callers complain of a whistle or think I've hung up. I'm cancelling this service ASAP.

Trying out a Cingular GSM after being on AT&T digital. While the service is somewhat better, it's still difficult for many people I call to hear me inside my home even though there is a tower close by. May switch to Verizon.

My area of Temple Terrace seems to be cell tower free. There are only two towers in the area, both to the east. I get lots of dropped calls especially if I am in certain rooms in my home. Going outside helps a lot. I live in a condo, not a bomb shelter! GSM (Cingular) seems to do better in this area over CDMA (Sprint / Verizon).

Always get knocked off while driving down Morris Bridge Road. Does not matter what time of the day.

Horrible reception from Cingular... they use all sorts of excuses like they are merging their network with AT&T. Cingular is definately not "raising the bar" as far as this customer is concerned. Almost impossible to make / place calls in this area. Cingular is also horrible throughout Tampa Bay -- stay away from the bay bridges -- that's for sure. Friends of mine on AllTel and Verizon don't have the same problems.

My job asked me to try Alltel service. It was horrible and calls were dropped all the time. I switched to T-Mobile and the reception is great. Reception is also very good Westshore, Downtown Tampa, and South Tampa.

It's become a running joke how poor our service has been for 2 and a half years now. Nearly every call is dropped at least once. I'm trained to hit redial. Each time we complained, rather than attempting to improve our service, they simply made us pay for another phone and / or extended our contract. Now we just switched to Cingular and the reception / signal strength seems just a pathetic. Do ANY of the cellphone services actually work well in the Anderson Rd. / Gunn Hwy. vicinity?

about as bad as AT&T Wireless

I have had Nextel for two years. The number of dropped calls and dead spots keeps getting worse. I use my phone a lot in both Orlando and Tampa and there is no difference, both areas are terrible. Even calls made during off peak times in the middle of the night are dropped repeatedly. I would not recommend Nextel to anyone.

I don't know what everybody is complaining about, but I usually receive near perfect reception on my sony t300.

It's our running joke "Can you hear me now?". Maybe it's our phones, but we have to go outside to use them. And even then it's 50 / 50. Driving around reception often fades in and out. We had Alltel and had to change (company policy) - we'll go back first chance we get.

Used to have AT+T TDMA. That service wasn't so bad and never dropped a call. Since merging to Cingular onto digital with a tri-band cellphone, nearly 2 in 3 calls drops. Also, as someone else mentioned, moving rooms dramatically affects reception. Someone has mentioned that things got worse since the hurricanes, but in my experience, it's got worse since SBC / Cingular took over AT+T. Trying to merge back to AT+T but they're not letting me. They suck.

this phone is ifi sometimes you have full bars, but reception is bad.

the whole shopping center at the corner of hillsboroughj and habana... I walk inside my calls are dropped and I have absolutely no signal FOK AT&T!!

the T-Mobile Pocket PC phone definatly has very poor reception compared to a conventional T-Mobile cell phone.

very good reception, but now I am moving to 33613 land o lakes area. I went there to see my new house and both phones were dead, very little signles.I wil have to buy new phone once I move.

Generally speaking, Tampa is not a Nextel area. The reception is despicably poor across the majority of the city. I have complained numerous times to Cust Serv. Every time I get the same response - the Hurricanes from 2004 messed up alot of stuff. It's ridiculous. If I come across $200 I'll cancel my contract immediately.

GSM: Litany of semi-dropped calls (connected, but one party ceases to be able to hear the other) with both Cingular, other cellular, and wiredline phones; when I am stationary. Experienced problem intermittently in and around both Orlando and Tampa.

Service was abysmal on base and especially bad in the BX and Commissary. Actually, the reception was between 1 and 0 and it was virtually impossible to connect or maintain a call for more than a few seconds. Had Alltel for years and the reception was terrific.