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Very good reception on LSD / Belmont. Full 5 bars. crystal clear voice.

Stick with TDMA if you still have it. roadside assitance is no good in rural areas if you can't place a call to it.

The actual celll phone itself has as much to do with call quality as the provider one is using. Siemens makes the best phones on the market. Their reception is in a league of it's own. The Siemens S46 is both TDMA and GSM. It is set to automatically work on GSM but switches to TDMA when a GSM signal is not available. This phone is the best on the market. Try to pick one up if you want to do what cell phones were meant to do, communicate clearly and reliably.

Most of the times i have full signal indoors, the lest is three bars. Outside perfect signal.

superb reception!!!!!!! Best phone dollar for dollar

On the 13th floor south facing side of a high rise. 4G LTE Signal ranges from 4 bars to full strength.

My wife and I had to unlock our iPhones and switch to T-Mobile because our AT&T reception was so terrible. We could barely make a call from our place and I loathed the thought of getting a land-line. So we worked a deal with T-Mobile and have been with them for two years now. There customer service is really great. AT&T was pretty poor for a while but I noticed it getting better right before we switched carriers. T-Mobile's coverage in my area is pretty good, not perfect, but waaaay better than AT&T. The only problem is the EDGE is pretty slow. I would definitely stay away from AT&T in the North Center area though - it is some sort of freak dead zone and it's just maddening. I'm done with the slow EDGE though on my iPhone and will be switching to either Verizon or Sprint (leaning towards Sprint).

It was really difficult to make a decision on reception rating. My Iphone original's reception is really good (upto 4~5 bar) as long as I leave my balcony door open, either little bit or wide. However, the reception drops to 1 bar or No Service at all if I close the balcony door. BTW, I live on 49th floor.

At the ground level, calls and texts work flawlessly and data is consistently 1.5Mbps and above with very low latency (in case you're not tech literate, this is very good). In my apartment (over 30 floors up), however, calls often drop. Texts do work no matter what though. Data is a crap shoot up high but that doesn't affect me since I have WiFi. I can say though that no matter where I am in the city (high up, in a basement, or anywhere inbetween) I do not miss calls and I definitely have no trouble texting. There are no "No Service" areas like I used to constantly experience with AT&T.

I live in a high rise in Lincoln Park and work up in the Ravenswood Area. At home I have a tough time getting reception, but we also live on the 24th floor. We have had 3 different carriers (T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint) and none of them work well at home so we got a landline. I have kept my T-Mobile phone and when I am out of our high rise, I have NEVER had a single dropped call in the city. In the Ravenswood area where I work, I have never had a dropped call in our building, but all of my coworkers cuss at their phones all day long because they can't get a signal. I am a big T-Mobile fan!