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AT&T service has always been bad since I got the iPhone. Now it's almost completely unusable. One bar and no ability to make outgoing calls the last two days, where at home in Cambridgeport or at work at Boston University. Time to move on. Never again will I be stuck with AT&T.

AT+T data sucks throughout most of Cambridge (Kendall / MIT). Pretty slow outside. Once I go into a building... forget about it.

Concord ave / Huron neighborhood is very spotty. Have had AT&T for years; it sucks here (recently moved here) both indoors and outdoors. Good signal sometimes, other times zero or Edge. Same location and even time of day! I complain to AT&T every day. So should you.

Very poor service in my place! It's very spotty, although it seems fine once I leave my place and place a call outside. It wouldn't be such a big deal if I had a home phone, but this is my home phone! Wanted to wait for the iPhone 5. For Verizon instead of AT&T. But don't know if I can last

Nothing inside, occasionally 1 bar outside. Frequently nothing. Generally poor all over. Most calls drop.

Been with ATT for 4 years through all iphone models. used to experience decent signal strength. Now reception quality is poor to none. First started experiencing dropped calls after upgrading to G4(average 5 times during a 20min call), and no reception in areas where I previous had a decent reception with 3g. Often find a vm without the phone ringing at all. (Sometimes vm's arrive a full 24 hours after the messages were left.) I returned 4g and came back to 3g, fed up with constantly having to apologize for dropped calls. 3g reception is a little better than 4g, but still noticebly far worse than it used to be. coverage map shows this area to be solid dark-orange(max possible) reception, but my experience says otherwise. AT&T is clearly overloaded beyond its capacity.

It is awful. And I can't believe it is my only option for the iphone, which I really like. This is ridiculous! I can't get calls in my office. I also can't use it in my apartment complex in Melrose MA! Hideous.

I get tons of dropped calls and very poor reception. Even on the street outside my house my reception is poor. When Verizon gets the iPhone, I'm done with ATT.

AWFUL reception! I've been on AT&T for about 1.5 years and the reception wasn't bad until this summer. Now it's just horrendous. A cell phone is necessary for my business and I cannot have such awful service. Time to move on!

I basically can't use my iPhone to talk when I'm in my apartment.

Reception along this corridor in the past few months has been terrible - used to be much better. Very frustrating...

Poor to no reception today. My Verizon mobile works well. iPhone however keeps dropping calls.. Today very bad, worse than usual. Dropped call about 12 times over 15 minutes. Very annoying. Usually the signal comes in and out here, but not as bad as this morning for wherever reason.

Very poor reception; often none at all; I tried different phones on AT&T service but all the same. Considering switching carriers when contract is up.

AT&T works much better indoors than my old T-Mobile (didn't work at all inside). AT&T solves the problem of the strange cellphone dead-zone (I've heard complaints about Verizon, and have personal experience with T-Mobile) on south side of Avon Hill.

Very bad reception from ATT. Dropped calls, poor or no 3G, cannot surf and talk at the same time. Am considering going back to Verizon - though they are more expensive.

Have replaced 3 Samsung phones in 12 days (now have phone #4 a SonyEriccson w518a) and finally discovered when the AT&T 3G phones search for a signal in weak areas such as mine ( 1 or 2 bars) a fully charged battery runs out in less than 24 hours with only 10 minutes of talk time. I'm returning to Verizon which was nearly faultless for the past ten years. I made the switch since my kids have iPhones and we wanted a family plan. Very discouraging and AT&T personnel did not know this problem exists.

I recently moved here to attend school in Boston. I have never had so many problems with AT&T before. It has been the most frustrating 3 months of my life. I can't have a conversation for more than 5 minutes inside my apartment before my phone drops the call. When I first moved here I would walk down the street a half a block and talk outside, but now it's winter and I can't do that. What really makes me mad is the amount of time my friends and family waste trying to get a hold of me. Sometimes I won't know about a missed call for a day or two. Ridiculous. Very dissappointed.

I cant believe how bad AT&T sucks in the Harvard Campus. I would think they have a pretty good network around here, just got my iPhone 3G but it is unusable most of the time. I am going back to Verizon.. they do know how to make a network. Get off AT&T as soon as you can!

Some days I get low level reception. Today, after noon, I was unable to get a single bar of reception anywhere on the Harvard University campus, including in the Yard, by the Charles River, and by the Radcliffe Quad, which I found extremely problematic as a student here.

Worst AT&T service in the area. NO service inside the dorm. Other users say Verizon is the way to go in this area.

My wife's iPhone 3G gets absolutely no reception in or in front of our house on Elm St. on the Cambridge / Somerville line between Porter and Davis Squares. Weirdly, I get minimal Edge service (no 3G) with an identical phone.

Before getting my iPhone I checked out AT&T's coverage for my area which is in Harvard, in the Biolabs, Law school and Beacon street area. When you visit their site it is on their "best" coverage. Well coverage is VERY spotty or none when inside the building, even the better corners by the window arent good enough to hold a call (meaning I dont receive them either) and even outside, for example at the Kirkland with Beacon st crossing the network is very low. AT&T CAN U FIX THIS?? I love the iPhone but had to quit the AT&T plan and now just use it as browser, email and ipod. AT&T around the whole of Harvard is VERY disappointing. ANY other major network works fine inside my building.

In the two apartments I've lived in, I have to stand in specific spots and even then it will sometimes drop, or I'll have to move around some more. This also applies to most areas in Cambridge, form Harvard Square to Porter Square. It really is hit or miss, with mostly miss.

almost any othe phone carrier (as tested with friends phones) works in my apartment BUt cingular. is better when I get nearer to harvard square.

Cell phone reception is spotty at best indoors. many dropped calls. The worst is a call that continues but interference makes it difficult to hear clearly. The signal seems to get better at night and is worse in the afternoon. There are certain "places" I can be in the apartment and the call is better than others but this requires me to be in those areas to make and to recieve calls, sometimes leaving the cell phone in those areas just to get a call. Others with different cell carriers do not have this problem. There is a BIG difference between the signal performance here and anywhere else in Boston or Cambridge, so I am sure it is this building or this specific area. Cell phone towers seem to be spread out with none in this direct vicinity. I have three lines under contract with my carrier so it would be a pain to switch. Looking into cell attenae or booster for my apartment.

I got very poor reception with Cingular around HLS (and much of Cambridge) and almost no reception in my apartment. I figured that standing outside to call all my friends was bad enough in September but would be terrible in December. I switched to Verizon and get much much better reception. I actually got the Verizon phone before canceling Cingular, and tried using them both in my apartment to compare... the difference was very stark... Verizon would have two or three bars where Cingular had no signal, and wherever Cingular had a weak signal, Verizon had four or five bars.

Was originally fine. After AT&T merger it got so I couldn't maintain a call without static / drop. Ended up using phone as pager. Went to T-Mobile Razor which has been near perfect.

I've had this phone and service throughout my 4 years at Suffolk University. I lived on Tremont St.(across from the commons) for 2 years and always had reception. My classes were located either on Beacon Hill, or by the Arlington T stop, and I never had a problem in either locations. The past 2 years I have lived in Central Square, Cambridge and get perfect reception here as well.

Reception is fine in the middle of Harvard Square, but there's a big pocket of no-signal as you go up Garden St. to the Quad. I sometimes have acceptable (though not great) signal outside, but inside the glass-walled building where I work the phone usually doesn't even ring, and dialed calls consistently fail. Heading away from Harvard Yard in a different direction, Kirkland St. is just as bad if not worse -- very poor or no signal, even outside.

Yet another horrible reception report using Cingular. I used to live in Watertown, and service was always rock solid, but in my apartment building, service sucks, frequently dropping to 0 bars. It totally fluctuates, but rarely is it ever above 2 bars inside. I am going to switch to either Verizon or T-Mobile based on the findings posted here.

Get next to nothing in my (wooden built) house. Same goes for when I walk down Irving St.

Cingular has the worst reception in Cambridge. I would never recommend them to anybody. I've complained numerous times about no reception and dropped calls and they just say they have many towers in the area. It's also the wosrt custoemr service I have ever expereinced. I had Sprint in teh cambridge area for over 5 years and never had a problem. I just switched back. I'll always regret going with CINGULAR!

I can't tell if the nearby tower that's giving me 4 bars as I type this is just often overloaded, so I get switched to a tower that's further away and only gives me 2 bars, but my average reception is usually 2 to 3 bars. Often the phone won't even ring for an incoming call when it's sitting in the charger in exactly the same place where it's now showing 4 bars. I think the towers are in reasonable locations, but they just don't have enough capacity for the number of customers in the area. I often get dropped from a call with 3 or more bars showing.

Cingular is suck! I have enormous drop calls all over cambridge area. Do not ever consider Cingular in this area. I know Razr is pretty attractive but you will be stressed out because of Cingular's worst reception.

I am able to talk on the phone for about 5 minutes and then the person will start cutting out intermittently. Eventually, the signal will go to 0 bars and I will lose the call. Often after I hang up I will get a lot of bars. I've also tried a number of different phones. My roommate has Verizon and has no problem, and I'm tempted to change myself.

Reception is terrible pretty much all over town. Very spotty and unreliable (3 bars down to 1 in a matter of steps).

Have had AT&T Wireless and now Cingular. Always (4 years) been atrocious, and I've just been too lazy to do anything about it. Had hoped the switch to Cingular would help, but no dice. I'm switching.

Crappy reception. Poor to little reception on MIT east campus / Kendall area, no reception in Sloan building. Nearly crooked rate plans and poor customer service. Sloan students - avoid Cingular at all costs

Until two weeks ago I had perfect reception in my building (for 18 months), and then it suddenly dropped to terrible about 12 days ago. Cingular reps explained to me that they were "re-networking" since the ATT / Cingular merger and that reception would be restored to fine within two days. Well, that was over a week ago. When I called Cingular again, they told me I need one of the new Cingular phones. Needless to say, I'm going to change companies.

no reception in my building. excellent reception on the street.

Cingular reception sucks in building and on the street. I don't know what they claim, and they sold me well, but they are a fraud. I have been on other cell services all over the globe, and this is just crap.

Drop calls all the time. Reception in and around Harvard Square is incredibly inconsistent. Sometimes fine and sometimes horrible.

Pathetic quality of service at my home. Looking out my back window you can see the Fresh Pond projects (three 24-story towers next to Alewife Station). Cingular has an antenna on one of these towers--serving Bill Weld and Mitt Romney's homes to the west and south. *NOT MINE* or the rest of us working folk in 02140 or even the gentrified Davis Square (where you get zero to one bars). I have ordered a GSM phone to see if it makes any difference. There has been no change since I first purchased service in June 2000. In fact I have not seen any evidence that Cingular has installed any towers anywhere at all in the north of Boston area since then.

HELP !! I'm trying to find a better service provider which at least works in some subway stations. Or is it my crappy phone?