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AT&T service has beyond sucked since the day we went to them from T-Mobile. I have called and complained so much and received several hundred dollars in credits but truthfully i'm tired of having to call and tired of credits. Give me service that works please. I'm actually considering paying over 400 to break my contract with AT&T so I can get better service. I have to go outside of my home to make phone calls... What a joke! our monthly service runs about 240.00 / month for three lines each with data and we can't make or receive calls from our home without them dropping...

I get better reception in Beijing, China than Evanston, Illinois with AT&T. Really! T-Mobile fantastic, AT&T horrible.

Outdoors I mostly get 5 bars. Indoors, however, differs greatly. Mostly get at least one bar. Had no dropped calls. However, 3G speed fluctuates. I'm happy with AT&T.

I get 1 bar in my second story Evanston condo and nothing but static, dropped calls at home. Work on 35th floor in Loop and No 3G or Edge service, I do get a o though. I also do not recieve calls when I'm downtown and texts are hours late. Bye Bye At&t

Reception in Northwestern's Pancoe building is very bad. Occasionally by the window I can get signal long enough to be alerted of a voicemail / textmessage. Outside of the building it picks up signal, but dropped calls are very common.

OK reception outside. No reception in my house. Glad I still have a landline.

AT&T has NO SIGNAL, 2000 new students, their parents and friends can't get cellphone signals from AT&T. They will switch to other carrier if signal is NOT improved around the Northwestern University.

I use my iPhone as my home phone and in the past it was good to perfect. Phone reception has been steadily declining and in the past week I often have no reception in my apartment except in the kitchen where there is only one bar. It never used to be like this. I am thinking of ditching this phone because it's so unreliable. No point having an iPhone if the stinking thing doesn't work.

My friends hate me. I moved to NU a couple months ago, and I keep trying to call them, wandering around outside the building hoping for a fractional bar, bumping into other iPhone users. I sometimes get enough reception if I stand near the library facing East, but not West - but then I nod or a car drives by or a plane flies overhead and my call gets dropped and I have to call my irritated friends back. Again. And that's OUTside! I think I get negative reception inside, like I'm somehow subsidizing my colleagues' Sprint and Verizon reception. I've been making feeble attempts to call people on my drive home (using the iPhone earbuds / mic). Heading West, I've gotten dropped at Golf / McCormick and three other spots before Waukegan Rd. If I ever hope to talk to anyone, I'm going to have to drive home through more Northern suburbs, and isn't that stupid? Yep, I've got an iPhone in Chicago - I'm all dressed up and nowhere to go!

There is little to no reception here. Calls coming in go directly to voice mail and calls going out fail. Texting output is delayed for up to five min. AT&T cannot or will not do anything about it. Does anyone know a better coverage by any other carrier. for this area?

No bar and completely no reception in Tech Building. One bar at the outside of the building.

why cant we get good coverage at Northwestern U at Norris Center where all the kids hang out??

I get better reception in elevators in downtown chicago than I do in my wood frame house in northwest evanston. Reception is horrible.

In Tech Institute, there's no reception ever. Never use AT&T when you are going to NU engineering school. I had to keep my plan until the end of 2008 and now it's only 4 months away.

Get no reception in Tech or in Norris. Seems like only Verizon or Sprint users get anything inside the building.

Doesn't get to much more than 0-1 bar inside my house. I get perfect reception on my T-Mobile phone at the same spot.

Reception is inconsistent, running from 5 bars down to 0. At least once per hour I can watch my phone drop from 5 bars to zero, stay there for 5-10 seconds, then come back, all while I'm standing in my living room. Needless to say I get a lot of dropped calls.

Service is fairly good outside, both on and off NU campus, although, have occasionally had trouble with busy cells at times when making calls out. Inside most NU buildings there is no service, though sometimes service is available if you are on floor 3 or above. At Engelhart, service is decent inside, usaully works in my apt, but occasionally goes down to 1 bar or no service and might drop a call. Despite some service problems, Cingular seems to be the best in the area, have heard horror stories about Sprint and Verizon service, and have never seen T-Mobile reception better than mine; its usually equal or not as good, and inside buildings, more often worse or non-existant. I'm sticking with Cingular for now, as the service is the best I've seen in Evanston and it has the best plan for me as well.

i have great signal where I am at even inside the building and so far I have not had any dead spots so I would have to say right now I am happy with my Cingular 25 cents a min pay as you go plan

Reception inside buildings is almost non existant. Even when phone rings (2 bars) it drops the call once I open the phone to answer. I have tried four different V400 phones inside my office and have the same problem. Others in the office have switched to Nokia phones and get great reception sitting right next to me. Phone gets little or no reception inside most all buildings I have been in across the Chicagloand area. Outdoor reception is fair to poor.

Reception is extremely poor inspite of being a block or two from the water tower with all the cellular antennas. My guess is that the antennas focus their signals in a manner that it excludes the area immediately around the base for several blocks. I can drive 2 blocks north and get a good signal.

Previously I owned a SE T306 and I had two bars, but when I bought the V600, performance has improved significantly!

Cingular service has been all but stellar. I've had so many dropped calls - sometimes I just want to put Cingular out business. At Cingular they also have poor customer service. I'm just happy my contract is up and I can leave right now.