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Coverage is fine if you're outdoors all over town. Once you're on a bus or in a building it's all down hill, including terrible data service performance.

Had AT&T in Iowa City / Coralville area for 4 years and usually always have coverage. The coverage also has gotten ALOT better over those 4 years. Most always it is at 3+ bars with 3G.

My son gave me his old iPhone 3G Coverage has been 1 bar to no service. Cancelled plan! My Verizon flip phone has never dropped a call in Iowa City. In fact we have even gotten coverage in the arrowhead of MN on Lake Superior. Anxiously waiting for Verizon to start carrying the iPhone !

If reception was consistently bad it would be far less frustrating. AT&T are geniuses at providing tantalizing service (occasionally excellent, then none even when you put the phone in one place and use as a speakerphone.) Would get iPhone / AT&T only if the phone feature is not important.

Reception varies, never good. tried booster, still no help. company talk about improved reception in spring, 2010. It's mid-June and no improvement.

Poorest, most frustrating phone service I have ever had. My boyfriend and I are on a family plan and can hardly ever talk to each other. Our calls never go directly thru but go to Voice mail. And then it can take anywhere from 2 hours to 2 days to get a message that we have new voice mail. Cannot use the phone in my house, and sometimes not even on my street, and I live on top of a hill "Summit St." Occasionally I get calls to go thru at work out on the west end of town. If you live in IOwa City, don't go with AT and T, a big waste of money!

It seems to have gotten worse in the last month. Now signal is completely lost in many areas between Iowa City and North Liberty. I have friends who have moved to Verizon and it solved the problem. Unfortunately, can't move with the iPhone though.

Frequently drop calls in town. No reception in certain areas I regularly travel to and from work. No reception in areas of Cedar Rapids. Several "dead spots". Go with someone else.

Seem to be between towers. 1Bar then 4 bars then back to one. Garbled voice then perfect. We need more towers in Iowa City. All AT&T users should complain. I know its a pain in the A&& but they need to hear it from their users.

I have traveled throughout the US using two different Cingular / AT&t phones. Their service is at best frustrating. I would never go with them again. There are massive dead spots throughout Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota (esp. the Twin Cities), DC, Boston and New York. You would think that in the most populace parts of the country the company would be aggressive with ensuring coverage. No such luck. Look forward to either no reception or constant dropped calls-in the network that they claim have the least dropped calls. If this is true, I will be available only via email from now on.