No reception at all at home downtown! My old walmart tracfone actually has better reception. I've called Cingular repeatedly and they replace the antenna on my phone or tell me they're adding more towers or some other nonsense that doesn't help at all. You can't use your plan's minutes anyway with such poor reception. Might as well get a prepaid tracfone- I would have saved $400 this year. (and no I don't work for tracfone, I'm just really! unhappy with cingular)

Nextel's cellular service has become increasingly poor in New Orleans. I don't know what alternative carrier to turn to since they all seem to especially suck in Louisiana. Nextel used to be okay up until two years ago; I'm not sure what happened? Many individuals choose not to go with Cingular because of the corporation's goat-screw tactics of the past. Cingular is out to monopolize the market; nevertheless, screw-over the world as it always has.

service is not existant please build a tower asap

Reception is spotty, move four feet and the signal gone. get reception is the den but nowhere in the rest of the house. Rather annoying.

Cell phone reception is pretty good, no dropped calls inside of house.

I get 2 to 3 bars at Tulane Medical School, and can only call from the side of the building closest to Tulane Ave. At Audubon Park, coverage is usually 3 to 4 bars, but I get more dropped calls, it seems like.

I have had so many problems with my Sprint service here: hundreds of dropped calls etc. Other services are stronger in New Orleans

Indoors and out

Coverage is spectacular now with GSM. A year ago it was a different story. The only place in the city where I consistently drop calls is on I-10 / I-610 merge near City Park. Every time I go through there I drop the call.

Had a motorola V60t (TDMA) and the service was horrible so I "upgraded" to GSM and got the Motorola T721. Service may actually be worse now. I maintain a PC network that stretches from Kenner to the Westbank so I use, or try to use, my phone all over NO. The service is absolutely horrible overall. In fairness though, I just got a Nokia 6820 (GSM) and I have actually been able to have 60 and 90 minute phone conversations for the first time since I left Sprint (their coverage was spectacular).