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T-mobile service... terrible for my needs. Calls are always dropped when i'm driving down propect by Stevenson Intermediate School, driving up Punahou into Manoa and in my office downtown. I have a friend in Manoa valley who complained to T-Mobile about dropped calls from his home and was released from his contract because his address showed as a dead spot for T-Mobile reception. I'm forced to try Cingular or Verizon at this point.
Horrible reception in my building, even by windows. Phone shows 2 bars and most of the time I can hear the person on the other end but they can't hear ME when I talk. My roommate has T-Mobile and says it's much better. What a let down, AT&T.
As a realtor who is on the road, I must say AT&T is teribble! My company pays for AT&T so I use it for local calls, but I have verizon phone for long distance, time and time again I have service with my verizon phone but nothing on AT&T! Worse reception ever! I have been complaining to them for two years and three phones! They keep saying they are putting up extra towers, but that's just a lie. No reception in parts of downtown, Manoa (by Mid-pacific High School), Diamond Head, Hawaii Loa Ridge, in the back of any valley and North Shore past Waimea. DON'T sign with AT&T, their service and coverge is terrible!
Service good some time and bad some time. Antenna full bar but call fails. Don't know what to say but there has to be a better server out there somewhere...
Reception is strong and relatively noise-free when there’s coverage. Problem is, coverage is iffy even in areas where it should be best, like Downtown Honolulu. To make matters worse, once I’m out of commission, it takes unusually long for my phone to re-establish a signal and even longer to receive notification of missed calls or messages.
Reception is good in residential areas, poor anywhere else. Unknown if it is the phone, or the service, but having a call loose reception when you're dialing 911 and talking to an emergency operator trying to report a car accident, or calling 911 to report that you just saw an elderly man collapse on the side of the road, is just plain bad. Both situations happened to me, right in downtown honolulu. If anywhere in the entire freakin state should have good service, downtown honolulu should be it. I want to be able to try a cell phone provider and phone before I make my final purchase decision. You can test drive a car before you buy it, and most retailers for almost any product will let you return it if you're unsatisfied. I wish cell phone providers would get with the program, and stop their collusion in trapping customers in long term service contracts, with phone and service combinations that they know are poor (for their particular geographic area).
