The reception at my home is horrid. I have already had to drive to a different location to call someone. Has that garbled underwater sound. I have tried all rooms and even in the front and back yards and it doesn't get better.

Verizon's system would not be what it is in the new orleans area if it wasn't for Alltel's towers. Alltel had a far superior system than anyone including verizon. That's the main reason they bought Alltel was for the largest system in the US. They couldn't compete with it !

I can not receive or call out while inside my house. I have to go outside to be able to use my cell phone at all. Even when outside the connection is very poor. We also have a house in Lumberton Ms and the service is worse their.

I have had Sprint since 1999, except for one awful year with Cingular in 2005. No problems ever. The only problem I have with Sprint is a lack of "cool" phones and awful customer service.

Can almost always make calls out, and receive most, but some recent difficulty with calls coming in. Callers get "all circuits are busy"; this has happened during the day and sometimes at night. T-Mobile says the towers are repaired? I wonder if the system has been outgrown with so many contractors working in the city or folks moving back to New Orleans?

Cingular service is lousy all over. I cannot use in my house, or within 2 block radius without cutting out. Cingular tech support said service work in the area was supposed to be completed in Nov. 2006, but service is still bad. Now they say I need a new simm card, I do not have any problems with it when out of town.

Until eight weeks ago Cingular was very good in this area. Then drops, static, intermittent reception and network buisy signals started. Phone is practically useles. Cingular customer service says get a new phone, but six friends within five blocks with new phones have the same problems. I have spoken to Cingular a number of times reporting the groups dificulties and finally someone in support forwarded the info. to engineering. They actually called me with a reply admitting they had technical problems and would have it corrected by November 30. I had heard this from someone else but that date for correction was Oct. 15, so I don't have much hope.

Basically, blanket coverage - Kenner, Metairie, Downtown, Uptown, Jefferson, all of the westbank, LaPlace to Baton Rouge - always have 4 bars and up. There is one bad spot on the Huey P Long and one on the Causeway, but other than that, I never drop calls. Using a 3G phone on the EV-DO network, and IT ROCKS! When Sprint finally moves everything to WiMax, you're gonna be begging to get some of this! Migrated from Nextel and it was the best choice I ever made! Have a freind with Verizon service and a new Razor V3m. Standing right next to me in a steel framed building, he barely scraped together one bar while I was sitting on five. WiMax is gonna rule. Sprint bought 2.5 GHz spectrum years ago and it's gonna pay off very soon! Stay Tuned!

Cingular reception has been terrible here lately.

2 major rules... Don't buy an Ericssson K750I if you live in Louisiana. Don't use Cingular if you live in Louisiana. If you follow those 2 rules, you will have good reception... otherwise you are simply out of luck.

Cingular coverage between West Esplanade and the Lake SUCKS! I cannot use my cell phone in my house on a regular basis. Sometimes I get a signal and I need to freeze where I am to continue a conversation.

From the Galleria to South Causeway Blvd., from 1 signal bar to no signal as I approach Jefferson Highway. Nextel's service in the New Orleans metropolitan area has been getting far worse since 2004.

Good reception in metero area and I-10, I-55, I-12, I-510. Lose it on I-310 and US 90 (Luling).

Little or no reception inside Harrah's and many buildings inside the CBD. Reception outside is great except at the convention center- always drop calls there.

I guess Sprint is just like the rest. Everyone here is complaining. I only add to it. I drop calls all the time. I wonder if it is the phone. Does any provider do "good" job here in New Orleans? Alas... shigh..

Couldn't pick up a signal inside of my house with T-Mobile (GSM) had to go back to the old cingular with no GSM.

In Metairie, most places are good reception. It has some problems indoors, also in many parts of Kenner and New Orleans there tends to be static.