Typically good connectivity, although call quality does appear to degrade during peak periods.

For some reason, the reception is getting poorer over the past few months. Especially inside the buildings.

I have been with Cingular for 14 years. I am in Sparks, work in Baltimore City, Canton and Mt. Vernon. Traveling up and down i83 is now ridiculous. I have been wondering if they are not renewing the cell towers. I have not had a call lasting more than 5 minutes not get dropped in the last four months. Regularly drops by Pepsi sign, Ruxton Road, Timonium Road, and just past Shawan Road, Belfast Road, Sparks Rd.and at home in the house. I now do not make work calls while driving (yes, I have Bluetooth). How do they think I pay my bill? Constantly goes to voice mail while phone is in my hand. Missed calls all the time, just does not go thru. I am VERY FRUSTRAIGHTED with the service. Seems Baltimore is not a big enough city for AT&T to secure reliable coverage. DO NOT USE CINGULAT / AT&T. I am changing –paying the fee to get out of the contract. AT&T can figure out where the dead zones are by running a query on multiple phone calls in short periods of time, returned calls within a few seconds. Triangulate which towers were in service, and CORRECT the problems. If I can figure it out, why can’t they? No more investment $$$? VERIZON, here I come. I am changing my whole account, for all of my companies and my whole family. VERY DISAPOINTED.

I have had AT&T for 5 years and travel all over the country on business. I have never had any problems with them. Great Coverage, voice quality, and data speeds. I love AT&T and will never switch.

I use a ATT Blackberry Bold and I just purchased a TMobile Cliq with there new unlimited everything plan for 79.99. I ready dont have complaints about either carrier. So I think I am going to switch over to T-Mobile and drop AT&T because you cant beat tmobiles prices.

Calls are dropped after 3-4 minutes

My Sprint personal phone gets much better reception, but my work phone is AT&T sadly.

Rodgers Forge; very poor reception, many dropped calls from inside my house. So-so performance in front and back yards. But service was equally bad with Sprint and Verizon, so I suspect it has more to do with lack of towers.

I have great reception with this phone and carrier. I used to own the Motorola MPX 220 and it had a difficult time holding reception inside my apartment. I've noticed that other people in this area are having a difficult time with reception. The culprit in this area is the terrain. It's a very hilly environment and that makes it worse for cells to maintain a good connection. My L7 can hold 3 bars of service inside my house, but that's if I don't move around a lot. However, I've never known another phone or service that could hold a reception inside my place like this phone. My roomate has a Motorola Razr with Verizon and he absolutely hates his service inside and outside our place. Needless to say, I'll be sticking with my phone and carrier as long as I live here.

I used to have Verizon and always had at least four bars anywhere on the East Baltimore campus. I made the awful mistake of switching to Cingular at the recommendation of a friend, and have had numerous dropped calls and very poor reception all over Baltimore since then, but it's especially bad when I'm in the hospital. Also get very poor reception at the Hopkins Bayview campus. Am counting down the days till I make the switch back to Verizon.

Cingular always drops my calls near Exit 22 on the Baltimore beltway. Even with cell towers nearby and with a "strong signal" the calls will drop and I can't place a new call until I leave that area. Sometimes, after the call is dropped, I'll be able to redial. Happens all the time. It is surprizing how many dead zones Cingular has on the Baltimore beltway - it's hard to find a more significant road in the area. Take that as a warning to you - avoid Cingular!

Constantly dropping calls. Never ever have service in my house or on Fort Ave.

We live in a neighborhood called the Orchards which is bounded by Northern Parkway, N. Charles, W. Lake, and Roland Ave. The coverage is terrible. Although we have Cingular, neighbors with other providers have the same issue. It may be a case of NIMBY run amok.

cingular worked perfectly for 2 months, and now the service quality is just terrible: dropped calls, and someday not even a network access... does not come from my phone thoug, as it works in most other places.

Outdoors in Mt. Vernon I get okay reception, but indoors (even in my 1st floor apartment) I often get very weak reception. This is especially true in bars (The Stable and Brewars Art) with basements. I normally would not expect my cell phone to work in these locations, but I get zero reception while my friends with Verizon get full bars! I would switch to Verizon but from what I have read they "cripple" some of the better phones they offer so you can only interact with them through Verizon services (eg, you cannot transfer images from your PC to your phone because Verizon disables the feature in the phone). I'm disappointed, is there no service with good reception and halfway decent phones?

When you move into the area, you'll notice lots of people standing outside talking on their cell phones. Reception inside is dismal; outside is somewhat better. The best I've had inside is 3 bars but whenever I make a call it drops to zero or one bar. Lots of dropped calls.

reception average to poor inside buildings, Good outside.

I usually have all of my bars... .including in the basement of my house. I have only dropped about 5 calls since I had my my phone (my two-year contract is almost up) This was only because I was in a wooded area... but other than that reception is great around here.

Was able to get reception upon initial purchase of phone. No reception to poor reception since merger with ATT.

Reception below average: 2st floor No reception reception on 1st floor