Calls simply don't come through when I'm in a building anywhere in the area. Outbound calls always get dropped unless I'm leaning out a window. I know buildings reduce reception, but this is ridiculous.

Wow I'm having the same problem as a lot of you. My blackjack always had medium to poor reception since I bought it a year ago, but now it has gone to poor to none out of nowhere within the last week. I called and they replaced my blackjack but I'm having the same probs...

I have had zero reception for the past 5 days! I used to have perfect reception, then all of a sudden nothing! This is the area about 2 blocks south of Montrose on sacramento avenue. AT&T claims that all of their towers are working in that area and that I should reset my phone, even though I keep explaining to them that I have 2 phones on my plan, and neither of them have reception so it is obviously not a problem with my hardware. The few times that I actually get a call out, it drops. So much for AT&T's bs commercials patting themselves on the back for having the least dropped calls!

I have had my blackjack since summer and it has been fine until now. This past week I can hardly send texts, make or receive calls, and do not get voicemails for hours.

The reception was good when I first moved to Chicago. In the past month I have dropped calls, voice mails appear 3 hours late, and I have horrible reception. Tried changing phones and it's still bad.

Ongoing problems relating to dropped calls, especially in my apartment. Verizon gives me the runaround and they often ask me to update / reprogram the phone (*228). I have done this multiple times and the dropped calls persist.

I cannot use my phone in my house and in much of the two 4 block radius surounding my house. I hate ATT I am switching.

I get absolutely no reception at my house or around my house. I can't even get a signal if I set my phone to roaming. I have found that Sprint's service is generally pretty poor in Chicago and even in some of the surrounding suburbs.

Usually good reception, but in the basements of buildings it gets down to 1 or no bars. My calls hardly ever drop though, even with no bars showing.

Bad reception with verizion all over city. Part of it seems to be reception in chicago. Have had better reception (with same phone) in rural parts of new mexico. calls are dropped every 1-4 minutes. lots of feedback, static, lossyness and reed for repetition all over town. when I lived in the loop I could only make calls from my west facing windowsill- very frustrating. When I can get reception in ukie village / wicker park it is briefly and inaudable, dropping in and out. It seems to be like this all over chicago. In the last two years, I have made one mostly clear call- but I was standing in an open area in the goose island industrial cooridor at the time and don't plan on going back there to make calls. Need a differand carrier and phone.