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.

Summer is here, the trees have leaves, and Verizon is leaving us in the black hole of cell phone signal again. I can no longer get or make calls from home. I know many Verizon users in this area who keep their service because they need coverage up in Cascade and McCall, but back here in our part of the North End, you can't get or receive calls. The problem area with many dead spots goes from Hill Rd on the North almost to State St. and Lemp St. on the South; N 30th St. on the West and almost to Harrison on the East. This area has good Cingular coverage, even in buildings, so it can be done. When I pull into my driveway, I have 0 bars of Verizon signal outside, not in building. Verizon needs to put in another tower to serve this area, but they are not interested. We are installing a repeater antenna to boost our coverage since my husband's employer uses Verizon and he has no other choice.

From October 1998 until the beginning of August 2005, we had 2 - 3 bars and functional service. Then Verizon changed something and our signal dropped to 0 - 2 bars. We can no longer make or receive calls near our home, indoors or out. Verizon won't do anything to restore our neighborhood's coverage. Instead they have declared this a "low service area" and left us without functional service. Verizon used to be the best in our neighborhood, but not any more. Neighbors with Cingular say they have good service and can make and receive calls with almost no dropped calls. I am going to finish the BBB complaint process, but I don't expect Verizon will do anything to resolve the problem. I may be forced to use Cingular despite their reported poor customer service. At least I would have signal.

reception stinks in my apt. unless near windows. Everywhere else is great.

Only sporatic reception with a certainty of dropped calls if you are more than 2 miles east of Micron, till you reach Mt Home.

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).

Highland Springs Apartments has been surprisingly unkind to Virginmobile and to Cingular. I returned the Cingular Go phone with no further experiments after it was poor from my apartment. The T-Mobile To Go has worked very well in the spot where those others failed. In the challenging VA Hospital Lab it will work reliably and clearly a few feet from the window--same spot where the Virginmobile barely connected with broken outgoing. Deeper in the Lab it fails like most. In most locations in Boise signal is very good. T-mobile's scenario of guys on a camping trip to make the point of "no roaming charges" may be misleading. There is no roaming, and north of Eagle the signal disappears.

In many locations in Boise and Eagle signal strength was very good. Surprisingly poor inside my apartment building and just outside it. Strength improves a lot half a block away. Like most mobile phones, it doesn't work in most of VA Hospital Laboratory. Near the window it works barely, and outgoing signal is broken up there. Although my overall impression of Virginmobile is favorable, I have switched to T-Mobile to Go for better signal in these two key spots. There is no roaming. North of Eagle service disappears. Southeast past Diversion Dam it disappears.

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.

Signal is always strong, but I still have to find the right place in the house to talk. One wrong move, and the call is dropped.

Unfortunately I happen to be in one of the elusive black holes of Boise. As I drive out of my neighborhood I can watch the bars increase by blocks. One block out 2 bars, 3-4 block and I am at full bars. Still drops some calls while at home so we haven't been able to get rid of home phone yet. Qwest reception was better but service sucked... oh well, what else can you do. Samsung phone works MUCH better than previous phone which would drop everything at home.

When using the Cingular network at my house (near Five Mile and Edna) I might as well not have the phone. It's a vortex of nothingness... sure the phone rings SOMETIMES (missed calls are common because it often fails to ring), but *IF* it rings and the call is taken, it's either choppy to the point the caller cannot be heard or the call just dies. It doesn't matter which model the phone is... . every Cingular customer who visits has poor reception at this location no matter what model of phone they have. Other Cingular issues: Bad echos when traveling out of state, choppy signal downtown in Boise.

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.

AT&T / Cingular: Reception has taken a horrible decline since company merger. Traded a V600 in for a V551 thinking it may have been the phone and at the recommendation of Cingular support only to find the new phone no better. Cingular customer service has proved unhelpful. They recommended changing to a Cingular phone but would not guarantee better coverage. I have witnessed a decline of reception in popular mountain communitees in the area as well. I will be cancelling my Cingular contract and changing to Verizon. I expect not to pay a penalty since Cingular can not seem to provide service to my house in the middle of our wide valley in Boise.

Every since AT&T Wireless was taken over by Cingular, the reception in this area has been poor. Make a compliant to the FCC. I did and Cingular gave me a 10% discount over my current montly fee.

The reception here is very poor. I drop calls all the time and can barely get reception to receive phone calls.

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.

T-Mobile used to be excellent. We are a business and have apx 25 phone in Idaho and 15 phones in Portland Oregon. Calls frequently are dropped, sometimes we get no receiption at all... .when we first turn on phone, no service--turn it on and off several times, then finally might connect. We are very unhappy with T-Mobile and would not recommend it to anyone!

I've got T-Mobile and I get practically no reception at my apt and neither does Sprint, which my bf has. I lose 99% of my data services about 75% of the time and SOMETIMES I can manage to get an email or use the web browser, but not always. It's ridiculous since I am literally in the middle of Boise and I have no idea how to find out if other carriers will be better before spending the money on a phone or service plan. : /

I can't seem to get reception in the middle of Boise. Blows my mind.