Terrible reception in this area of Worcester. I can't get through a single call without it dropping out at least once, usually several times. When it does hold out for a call, the reception is full of static, weird feedback sounds, and echos. This whole neighborhood, from pleasant, to Moreland and down Salisbury St, is really poor. Once you get closer to downtown, service is fine.

Terrible reception in my house and around the Tatnuck area of Worcester in general. My phone always drops calls, I never have more than 3 bars of reception and calls usually have a lot of static or other disturbances. Can't wait to drop AT&T

Horrible service near the Paxton line on 122. If you dont tilt your head the correct way inside the house, dropped calls. And along Mass pike heading towards Worcester, there are always 2-3 spots where the calls just get dropped. Oh yea, and the occasional random dropped calls that I've averaged about 5-6 times per week. Especially frustrating while on the phone speaking to clients. I made the mistake of switching to AT&T for the iphone. Cool phone but terrible service.

Verizon, Sprint / Nextel, Cingular / AT&T will work, get a reception for a second, then goes no bars, no service and if you do get bars, the phone will ring, but you cannot hear the person or the phone constantly drops, this affects being inside / outside the house. I have tried tried different phones and different carriers same issue with all...

Becide the poor reception along the Kinnicutt Rd., also there is no reception at all inside of the house ( ranch with aluminum siding).

It's ghastly how poor the reception on Worcester's Westside. In Netwon Square... I have to run half way to WPI to get VZW reception.

Worst reception ever. Area is shaded as "best" under reception maps for Cingular. Calls dropped, Network busy, and No service messages are a daily common. Avoid Cingular at all means... ...

Works awesome. Sometimes 4 bars instead of 5.

reception is always at 4-5 bars, never any dropped calls or static

Reception is good everywhere except in the library (especially the bottom floor) and the science building... some dropped calls every now and then but otherwise fine.

My phone has 7 bars. The signal fluctuates anywhere from 2-7 bars but usually stays between 5-7 bars. Reception is better outside than inside. Even when the bars are all the way up, calls occasionally drop, bars suddenly go down to 0 for a few seconds, then all the way up again. This may have something to do with being near the airport and / or weather conditions.

No reception at all inside house; I am lucky to get two bars in the driveway, and even then the call often cuts out. A friend's Cingular phone had 5 bars in our house, though.

1 bar occassionally outside, often no reception. Inside, absolutely no reception.

As noted by other Verizon comments on this site, Verizon has very poor to no reception in the Newton Square neighborhood. Their transponder on Park Ave. does not penetrate the hill blocking the newton square area (NW of Doherty HS). Cingular gets great reception, however.

Verizon has no coverage in the summer and it is spotty in the winter closest tower is on Park Towers on Park Ave and the signal doesn't get over newton Hill, coverage is poor at the newton square rotary as well

No signal travelling in car when entering Webster Sq. signal comes back at full strength shortly after turning onto Cambridge St. (near Price Chopper).

NO SERVICE on the entire block.

I just switched to Sprint and get good to excellent coverage on the east side of Worcester.

Rarely have spots of no reception. If I do its for a second or 2. Best I've had in the 10 yrs I've used mobile phones.

Poor to no reception on loxwood st. sometimes drops out for minutes at a time, probably due to weather / atmosphere