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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.

My apartment faces the street, and I get good reception. My roommate also gets fair reception with Cingular.

Inside our appartments, the phone keeps dropping calls. No problems outside. We're switching to some other carrier. Verizon or T-Mobile probably.

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.

Incredibly variable - from excellent to nothing in the course of a day. Generally a problem, though, with drops on almost all calls.

Verizon seems to be great everywhere else in the country, except for my house. Drops calls all the time. Apparently Cingular is just as bad in this dead spot in mid-Cambridge. If the tower map is accurate, that's not a surprise. Occasionally I get 5 bars - there's no rhyme or reason to it. Can we get a cell tower in mid-Cambridge?

Do not use Sprint in a Harvard Law School dorm unless you're recovering from an addiction to cell phone use.

Perfect experience over the last year. No static, no dropped calls.

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.