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What's the deal?? Suddenly (past 3 weeks or so) everyone I know with AT&T cell phones is having trouble through Johnson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Douglas County, KS, and Shawnee County, KS! Dropped calls when sitting perfectly still after several minutes of clear conversation! Calls just drop while dialing even though full-signal bars showed! Thirty second delays in calls connecting even when they do go through! Some folks have been told it's a problem with their phone, but one person is on her 4th phone and still having the same problem! Another person was told there are 15 towers down in the area and unknown when / if they will be fixed! Something better change or they are going to face a class-action-law-suit for their commercials misrepresenting the "less dropped calls" misnomer! I've always been thrilled with AT&T / Cingular service, being a customer for about 5 years now, but this really is ridiculous!
I just moved to this area 7 months ago and reception is horrible. Reception is crummy and I have tons of dropped calls. When I lived at 85th and Antioch Cingular was awesome. Very disappointed and I'm dropping AT&T after trying to wait it out :(
I only get 1 or 2 bars, at best (indoors or out), and frequently experience dropped calls, no signal or 'Analog Roam'. I also get voice mail without an incoming call ring and callers complain of numerous rings from their end while I've answered on 1st or 2nd ring at my end. Very poor service!
I have had Sprint for several years and experience great service always! I travel to TN, MS, LA, GA, and Fl frequently, and my service never misses a beat! As with the reception, sometimes you just need to update the PRL in the phone. I get great voice service and have only dropped 2 calls in a 4 yr period. With the A900, I have clocked my downstream speed as high as 900K, but average 700K; my upstream averages 100K.
I have tried 3 diffrent networks and none of them work very well. The best seems to be sprint. I have a work phone from Cingular and the reception on it is not as good. The phone itself does make a diffrence.
This seems to be a sure fire dead zone for not onlly T-Mobile but other carriers also. West of this point to K-7 gives average signals. I always head to the above strech of road when I am on the phone and want to cut the call short with someone who will not stop talking on their own. Check the tower maps on tis site they are a great resource in shopping for carriers.
The reception in most areas of Olathe is good, only if you are outdoors! Go inside a building, and reception drops to poor and switches to analog and roaming, or no signal. T-mobile, Cingular, and even Sprint phones I used in the same areas get better reception
