I get reception to and from the commuter rail, as well as in my house without a problem, usually 4 to 5 bars.

No service anywhere in Salem. Horrible customer service when inquires are made. Cingular is the worst. Avoid at ALL COSTS

HORRIBLE. From the moment the commuter rail passes Chelsea I lose service. I cannot use my phone at all in the city of Salem, much less in Boston too often. Cingular customer service is horrible as well, and refuses to help in any way or let me out of my contract. I am actually paying for a monthly service with a phone that is used once a month. Cingular is the worst service ever for anyone in Massachusetts. My phone works NOWHERE.

"More Bars in More Places" Ha Ha Ha! I get no coverage on the train through Chelsea until I get to Lynn. Also spotty coverage through out Boston. Mobile to Mobile is the worst. Switching service.

I work throughout Swampscott, Marblehead, and Salem. I drop at least 4-6 calls per day and my phone spends about 2 hours per day out of service. Nextel has a horrible network!

In general I've always had good reception with Sprint PCS. In California (Silicon Valley, San Fran, etc.) , Nevada (Vegas), Utah (SLC) and in the northeastern states. I get reception almost all the way along Rt. 2 out to western mass, which I can't say the same for ATT Wireless. Around the Beverly, Salem area, I've never had any problems with my service. I get spotty coverage driving up into northern New Hampshire (near Franklin), and Maine also. Driving down to the airport in Providence, RI I haven't had any problems with signal. No problems in Boston either. I've been using Sprint PCS for 5 years now, and after the first year I didn't have any problems. There were some initial bugs in their network when I would travel to Mass from California when I lived there. Their cell towers wouldn't recognize the phone, and every now and then I'd have to do software updates for the phone - but all that was taken care of over-the-air by Sprint PCS support and smoothed out quickly. My only current problem with Sprint PCS is that I rarely get signal inside of the Cummings Center in Beverly. It's a very large, concrete structure and cell signal just doesn't penetrate it. Nextel has an antenna / tower on the roof, and you can get decent Verizon signal inside the building, and very limited Cingular / ATT Wireless signal.

Great all over downtown Salem, indoors and out

Good to excellent coverage in downtown Salem. Fair coverage inside buildings.