I've always had reception on T-Mobile in Lafayette and in West Lafayette when I lived near campus. I can't remember a single time I didn't have at least 2 bars (enough to make a call), and almost always I have all or maybe one short of all the bars. I work in an office downtown, and I get full reception while others on AT&T, Sprint get very minimal reception if at all inside. The network is patchy when I leave the cities for some of the smaller towns, but I'm usually OK if I'm on a state / US highway, and always OK on I-65. (Notable exception: US 231 to Crawfordsville, but I don't know anyone who gets reception. Even Verizon has a few dead zones there.)

I have had Sprint for a long time and had no problems. ONly on 26 on my way to kokomo

I live on 10th street and my coverage SUCKS! I get no signal in my house or around my house at all!

I just got two of these hybrid phones that has Sprint voice coverage and Nextel walkie talkie service. I get good service all over Tippecanoe county. I recommend the new Nextel Hybrid phones to anyone.

Please get towers out here!

I've had good luck with Verizon in the 4 years that I have lived in Lafayette. In my current location my LG VX5300 alternates between 3 and 4 bars. I frequently have 120+ minute conversations and calls are hardly ever dropped. I also believe Verizon has great customer service. I don't think I've ever been on hold longer than 5 minutes and the reps are usually very helpful.

Full bars... no dropped calls for two years... data transfers fast. Perfect service in this area.

I live near Beck / Brady and 9th / 18th and get great reception at home. I work at Ivy Tech and can get reception inside ALL campus buildings - and that's steel and CMU construction. I got the cheapest, cheesiest free phone that was ever invented - but I figure if I get such GREAT reception with that... I'll probably stick with Cingular and just upgrade the phone. I DO hate Cingular's customer service - just to be totally honest here - and be careful which store you buy from - if there's a long line when you get there- leave and go to another store. I used to stand in line for 45 minutes at Teal just to hear: I don't know, let me find my manager. Granted, this was two years ago...

Cingular has excellent reception and voice quality all over East and West Lafayette. I have used two other competing services and this is the only one that works in my basement and in the basement at work.

I can place a call, sometimes. I can have a conversation, rarely. No, really, I'm trying to be positive about T-Mobile, not!

dont go for T-Mobile in lafayette, you might as well forget that you have a cell phone and pay the bills. customer service- if you are bored u can have nice time listening to their hour long f---- songs

Really good reception everywhere in Lafayette, even good in buildings and basements.

Great reception on campus, but near the Cinergy / PSI plant it stinks!

Cinglar, by far, has the best all around coverage in a 50 mile radius of Lafayette. I used to spend all day, 5 days a week on the road. I have had Verizon and all the rest of the local carriers have been used by others working with me. Nearly everyone has switched to Cingular. When you make at least 3 or 4 calls minimum per day from all over the region, it becomes aparent which carriers work and which carriers don't. The only one where reception is no more than 5 minutes down the road from anywhere within 50+ miles of Lafayette is Cingular. From what I am to understand 2 more dead spots will be gone in about 2 more months. The other carriers do have excellent reception in certain areas surrounding Lafayette, but it is definitely a case of all or none. If you look at their coverage maps, they are very limited and cover only one or two directions out of Lafayette.

I get reception everywhere on campus and in Lafayette and W Lafayette. Some loss of service in lecture halls though.

I think I may have just gotten lucky with my phone, but I get reception anywhere I go. The only time I can't dial out is when I am in a really heavily cemented basement with no windows. I can be in the ground floor of one of the campus libraries, (where no one else gets reception), and my phone will work. Out of town it works great, and the conversations are only garbled when I'm outside, or have the volume on my phone up too loud.

I have been with AT&T for 6 years. This is by far the worst service I have had. After this plan I am done with AT&T. Not only is the calling capability almost hopeless, but they have messed up 5 out of 6 bills. No chance I will ever look back.

More like a 0.5 rating. At my house I usually cannot make calls with them ever lasting longer than 5 minutes. Usually the call is dropped from 1-2 minutes and if it's not the call goes in and out. T-Mobile has poor customer service and won't do anything about it. The first person said they'd be monitoring my calls (assuming signal strength only which makes sense) for 72 hours and then the next 2 people I spoke with said they never herad of this. Not to mention they're rude and will only try to offer the exact same handset replacement. Credit to T-Mobile: Very good reception on Purdue campus and also near Lafayette Mall.

I get no signal or close to it everywhere except on the top floor of tall buildings. My sister here got a more expensive phone and has no better reception. Even when my phone reports a connection, about half the time it doesn't ring, it goes to voicemail for whoever called.

No reception at ALL at my house in the center of town, just off of US 52 and Union Street. I had a party two days ago, Verizon and Sprint phones had FULL bars in my house, Cingular had decent reception. There were three T-Mobile phones, none had ANY reception.