Use to be a billboard here: "Can you here me now?" Got no reception. Same results with different phones. Switched to AT&T and had much better reception.

I love my phone, the most features and style I could ask for but the reception is incredible around chicago. It blows my mind how I can live in one of the biggest citys in the US and still have horrible reception. I could understand elevators and parking garages, but when you driving down any major street or highway and your signal cuts out I just loose it and I want to through my phone in the garbage. And for someone who lives on there phone with my line of work, I just can't have it. I've gone from nextel, to verizon, to Cingular now and there all horrible. Goverment has to do something about it cause cell phone companies have people over a barrel in this city.

Cingular has run into some issues while bringing the AT&T towers into their network. Reception can go from full bars to "No Service" while standing still. Multiple dropped calls. Had Cell One / Cingular for over 14 yrs. only began having issues late 2005 in their GSM network. Getting cells to "hand off" calls between one another seems to be their biggest issue (doesn't necessarily default to the cell with the best signal during hand-off) I've tried multiple phones from various manufactures... phone can cause results to vary greatly.

Reception is generally acceptable but not yet 100%.Reception is much better on this Nokia 'candy bar' than on either LG or Verizon flip phones I've previously owned. No problems by intersection of Archer Ave. and Lemont Road, anywhere along 159th Street, or along Larkin or Route 59 or 53. The worst reception is along Archer near Cog Hill.

I used to have poorer reception, but switched to a newer Nokia 6300 series and my reception is up by 50%. I travel a lot both around Chicago and the tri-state area and I have great reception now (the last time I dropped a call was in a very remote part of Wisoncsin). But ATT is phasing out the TDMA stuff like I'm sure everyone else will, so you probably need to look at the GSM results. I'll probably be switching to Nextel simply for cost reasons and glad to see no major complaints for them around Chicago.