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No reception in my house. Most of the time if I walk outside, I can make or receive a call, But not always.

Have 3 different type phones, none of which work in our house or even in the yard. Have to go at least a block away. Cingular claims that they don't know why we have a problem in our area. However, when we went to another store in the loop, they said that Skokie has bad coverage! We have the family plan with 4 phones and can't even drop the 2 that we use in Skokie as they will charge $150 to cancel each phone! The other 2 that are used at Bryn Mawr and Kenmore seem to be ok on the 8th floor. It is very aggravating. Neighbors with Verizon say that their service is non existent in their house also. Sprint does seem to work in their house.

I just switched from a Treo 600 on AT&T to a Treo 650 on Cingular. The reception both at my office off of Dempster and Bronx and at my home about 1 mile away off of Dempster in Skokie were good on AT&T. (In fact at my office it was excellent.) The Cingular reception is almost unusable. In particular the signal surges in and out ranging from 4 bars to 0 bars in a 5 minute period of time. I have called Cingular a couple of time an found them understanding but not able to solve my problem. In fact I thought my new phone must be defective and then replaced it without question. Unfortunately it is no the phone. To use the Treo on Cingular in my office I installed a cell phone repeater / amplifier with a remote antenna on the roof of the building. With the repeater on the phone is usable but the quality of the sound is still poor. Cingular, if you read this, please service this area.

Horrible reception in the entire area. I previously great reception with T-Mobile. Cingulars customer service is the worst ever. Also, it is only available during business hours, compared with T-Mobiles 24 hour customer service. After one week with Cingular. I am taking advantage of the grace period and switching back to T-Mobile.