I have had many problems with Nextel in the past, but upgraded to the Blackberry phone and reception has been great. I now have full reception everywhere in Boise (indoors and outdoors), including the places where my girlfriends Verizon phone doesn't work at all. I also have full reception in Cascade and McCall, and have not dropped service at all from Boise to Idaho Falls. I feel like it is more a cell phone issue than a network issue, because it has ONLY been this Blackberry phone that has had good reception for me.

My reception is now excellent. They must have installed a new tower or upgraded one nearby. Only about a month ago, my best reception at my residence was in the center of the house, in the bathroom. Very frustrating when you use your phone for business. However, now it is perfect, a constant full coverage. I sure hope it's not a fluke!

I have had Cingular for the last 7 months and I have never dropped a call. I love the service and I have been very happy with the reception and the costumer service. I recomend Cingular to all my friends.

Great reception with AT&T / Cingular all over Boise, and in many more places in Idaho than many of my friends who use different carriers - in McCall, for example. Still no reception in the canyons, however (thank gawd).

Seems to have stronger signal in most places around Boise than Verizon. Calls do not drop often. Network can be unreliable--in the last 6 months, the network has gone down at least 5 times that I noticed. Sometimes TXT messaging and picture messaging will be delayed.

I have TMboile and I absolutely love the service. I have had a few different carriers before and everything about the service I received before was awful. TMobile's customer service is outstanding and my phone gets reception EVERYWHERE! I travel a lot and 95% of where I have gone I have full service, and if not I have 3 bars.

At home, at work (near the Mall), at Wal-Mart (all the way back by the eggs yet... ) I get great reception. One call in 50 might drop at some point, or make a noise. Fixed price great. Since Sept. 2001 I have had phone service with Cricket. It does seem to take them forever to process checks sent to them in mail... You really need to send in a full week before due date... They need to clean up their act on this... Calling card works fine for rare long distance call. Have heard some complaints from others at office... Suggest that anyone contemplating Cricket borrow phone for a few days and try in all likely spots and consider needs (drive to Mt. Home every day? Then forget it... )

Always have great reception, even in buildings. All through Boise, Meridian area. Never had a call dropped.

Very pleased with T-Mobile. Great reception everywhere they claim to have coverage.

I have had very good reception in Boise / Nampa / Caldwell with Verizon Wireless. 3 bars in Emmett, full signal in McCall, 2 bars in Mt Home, 1 bar in Wilder, full in Payette / Fruitland.

Overall Verizon has greatly improved from a year ago. Service is good and get fast 3g as well. Formerlly a ATT customer, I can say that VZW beats them hands down everywhere I go, and in Boise as well.

My reception with Qwest is great! I do not have any dropped calls and usually I have at least 4 or 5 bars. I have great reception in and out of the city and surrounding areas. It sucks rocks that Qwest is switching to Verizon and their "customer offers" for migration only offers discountinued phones that are shabby at best. I am going to wait until my service is shut off before I choose another provider.

Reception is now good. 2 years ago we experienced dropped calls but that has improved a lot.

I never really had a problem with service. Maybe a few drop calls cuz sometimes my phone switches towers. But thats maybe once every 3 months... I love the service that AT&T provides. Out does everything I know

I haven't had many problems with reception from home, but when I start moving around on the Bench area of town, reception can be tricky. Maybe it's all the beautiful, old trees!

Really never had a problem wherever I went. Virgin Mobil uses the Sprint Network and I've never had a call dropped... it was from the other end. Virgin Mobil phones aren't the best quality though... kinda like a cheap dashboard in a cheap car... but seem to work okay. I like the Snapper over the other models.

Generally very good in this area, including parts of Hill Road, State St.into town. There seems to be a dead zone somewhere along Veterans Parkway. Have been generally very satisfied with coverage with infrequent drooped calls.

Oddly enough, in this area I (and others) have 4-5 bars yet am unable to make or receive phone calls from this area. 5 weeks on the phone with customer service cannot explain why and have written this off to poor reception.

Overall, very good reception. Rarely do I drop a call or have less than 3 bars of service.

New cell phone towers going up all over the place. Companies buying each other out. Third phone, each one costing more, but you get what you pay for.