The signal goes from 5 or 6 bars to Zero! In at least 50% of the calls the call goes dead! I hate the service of AT&T wireless in Champaign IL. I used to have Net 10; it was a lot better signal than AT&T.

The signal goes from 5 or 6 bars to Zero! In at least 50% of the calls the call goes dead! I hate the service of AT&T wireless in Champaign IL. I used to have Net 10; it was a lot better signal than AT&T.

phone dropped calls constantly texts never go through all the way i convinced t mobile to drop me i didn't pay the fee either! i told them I lived in small town champaign but i've been complaining for a while!

Just switched to Verizon from Nextel and I am ready to pay to get put of my contract and go back two many dead spots and droped calls and more expensive

I've had no trouble with my Cingular reception. I lived in Savoy (neil and curtis) for a year, then moved to the middle of champaign. No problems either way.

Sprint Reception is great if you have a Sanyo phone. I don't know why they work so well and others don't. My wife and I have had them for over two years and after the Nextel-Sprint merger the few dead spots we had noticed in some big stores (like Schnucks) improved greatly. However, while my Sanyo had survived numerous drops it apparently wasn't waterproof. I recently picked up a Blackberry 7130e which is great for email, but is a poor phone. I think the email is on the blackberry network, while the phone service relies on Sprint's. Several complaints of calls breaking up with the Blackberry in areas where my Sanyo always worked well.

Terrible reception in apartment near downtown Champaign. I am a bit shocked, after moving from Urbana, having expected the reception to be, if anything, better. Very little reception -- dropped calls and incomprehensible calls are the rule. Very dismaying, and I too am trapped in a lame Cingular contract.

It shows full bars but the reception is not great. Although the phone has a bad reputation as the microphone is too easy to overdrive, I also get static / poor reception when listening to others who are calling from a LAN line. I occasionally get calls dropped. To get good reception, I have to go outside my apartment and walk one block south.

Really good performance from this phone and network. Virtually never had a call dropped and I even got reception in my lab - which is in the basement. Other phones on other service providers got no signal and I had three bars. Cingular are also really helpful w.r.t. service and sorting out large bills! REALLY sad to leave them but have to for various reasons unrelated to their service.

I've gotten nothing but good reception from Virgin Mobile, even indoorse I get all or nearly all bars.