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You have to hate your-self to get T-Mobile. Reception always sucks and get worse when you enter a building. In Kunia, I get poor reception and if its cloudy, it as if the signal drops. T-Mobile was good several years ago when AT&T was in a partnership. The number of T-Mobile towers are far less when compared with AT&T and Verizon. At UH Manoa, AT&T and Verizon have a tower on campus which is a real plus. Sadly, T-Mobile is the less expensive out of the 4 major cell phone service providers. Warning: On Kauai there is no T-mobile. You will roam on AT&T network for free but you can not use your unlimited data for more than 5 e-mails.

Cannot get good reception in home. If used on second floor receotion improves but is still spotty. Must go out of development to get good coverage.

I've tried about every single carrier except AT&T. And as of right now I am with T-mobile. Verizon and Sprint wasn't working for me. T-Mobile by far I would say isn't GREAT but it's good. I have like 3 bars from home everyday. No dropped calls from my new blackberry curve... but with my sidekick 08' I could never keep a conversation going.

This area is in a low area such that the signal goes over the houses. No reception / weak reception on ground floor, reception is slightly better on 2nd floor.

No reception a the top of the loop. Marginal reception if you are in direct line of sight of the single tower located near H-1 (Tower is near Kunia off ramp so good signal coming up Kunia Rd.until you turn off at Anonui Rd. Reception picks up again going up Anoiki and then drops when you get into Kalulu Loop.) Sprint and Cingular have spotty 2 or 3 bar reception in this area.

My husband and I signed up with AT&T when we moved to Waipahu thinking we'd try to do without a landline. Boy was that a mistake! Reception is terrible and lots of dropped calls. We can't use the cell phone at all at home, only get decent reception in town. AT&T said they're putting up new towers, but after reading the comments here I don't know whether to believe it. Wish we'd gone with verizon.

We get GREAT coverage with Verizon on Oahu. My calls don't drop, voices don't cut in and out, and I get a signal inside most buildings. Inside some mega size retail stores the signal is weak. The only place I found the coverage to be sketchywas on vacation on the Big Island. It got no signal inside the Volcanos national park or along some of the more remote areas on the highway. I don't think there are any towers for any company inside the national park. In all the towns I had coverage.

We gave our phones back to AT&T within the first 30 days and said no thanks! We couldn't get reception in our house, on H1, or on Hickam. So many dropped calls or broken up voices. Very frustrating! We could have 4 bars showing, make a call and not move an inch, and the call would drop or it would lose all bars. We now have Verizon and get very good coverage and calls don't drop! Only place I really don't get a signal is inside Lowes at Waikele.

I have been putting up with poor reception and dropped calls in my home for 2 years now. I have stuck with T-Mobile this long since reception on the mainland (I travel a lot) has been excellent. I keep waiting for T-Mobile to upgrade their system here, but I am getting tired of the dropped calls in my home, and will be changing carriers soon.

Compaired to T-Mobile and Verizon has much better reception. I can talk to people inside Wal-Mart Mililani, were T-Mobile would cut off 20 feet in the door, at my mom's at Waipio Gentry, Verizon works and T-Mobile dosen't. I have not found a dead spot yet. Never had a problem with T-Mobile in Waipahu though. And ATT should be perfect in were I'm at in Waipahu because there is a ATT tower no more than 200 yards from were I am.