I have recently moved from Goodwood area to the Highland / Seigan area and all 4 phones in my household-- LG, Motorolla, and two Nokias on the Cingular plan have one bar reception. Can not even use them while at home.

If I go outside, stand on one leg and face the North pole I might get 2 bars. And I don't want to here "it's the trees"!

T-Mobile is a joke near LSU. We used the service for 3 days and then jumped ship. We're using Cingular now which is marginal throughout the Baton Rouge area.

EVERY time I am on the cell phone driving on this S-curve, the call is dropped!

I live in Jackson Park, about maybe 1 / 4 mile from the Sheriff's substation. The reception at my house is HORRIBLE - sometimes no service, more often one or two bars. I have the Cingular "Every other Word" plan - can't make or receive a call from home - inside OR outside. Just called and complained after reading the big news release about Cingular "lighting up Baton Rouge" with their wonderful broadband service. They need to work on the voice service first! Also, coverage horrible on Joor road starting about Greenwell Springs coming toward Central. Also horrible at Florida Blvd. and Airline Hwy. - the biggest intersection in town! Cingular used to be pretty good, but in the last year or so it really sucks.

I drop a call everyday when traveling up Antioch road just off of the intersection with Old Jefferson. Also lose calls on Jefferson Hwy. between Bluebonnet and Floynell.

Like the others have mentioned, I cannot use my cell phone in my house... which as a business owner is a HUGE problem. I drop a call every day traveling up Antioch Rd.just off the interesection with Old Jefferson. Jefferson Hwy / Drusilla area reception is terrible. Prairieville reception is terrible. Cingular has always been my favorite provider after having tried the others but since Katrina reception has been terrible. I was told by an employee that they were switching to a new network which would launch in October and that was the reason why coverage had become so spotty as they brought towers down to upgrade. Well... it's October and it hasn't changed a bit.

Major problem keeping signal and call drops. Absolutely no reception in the house; must go away from the house. Even outside there is just couple of bars. On interstate passing between sherwood-Millerville the calls drop 90% of the time; same around the capital. I will be talking to some one and then suddenly someone else on the phone whom I dont know and they are as puzzled as I am. Sometimes you only hear the dropped in conversation, sometimes both parties can here as if we are connected. Most of the phone options Cingular have, the phone sucks. Wont even last for a year. I have 5 phones with family talk. Getting ready to change phone and stronly considering changing Cingular.

I had really no problems before the hurricane, but now it sucks. I pretty much cannot finish a phone conversation without having at least 1 or two sometimes 3 dropped calls with the same person mainly other Cingular customers. Also, at least once or twice a week, the person I am talking to will cut out and I will be listening in on another person's conversation totally, they can't hear me, but I can hear them. I am on my third phone this year, so I know it is not the phone, it has to be the service. I have been with Cingular since they were bellsouth since 1995. I have never had the problems that I have now. They should not be advertising fewest dropped calls. They need to come down here to Louisiana and do a survey and they will see the service here sucks. When I go back to Alabama I don't have near the problems I do here. So, cingular, please get your act together and get some more towers for all of the influx of people in the baton rouge area. Or as much as I hat to, I will be switching to a new carrier so that I can have a dependable service.

The Cingular tower is only blocks from here and reception varies from great to dropped - I can watch the bars change from 1 to 4. Nonia 6102.