I'm barely getting one bar in my living room and none is the rest of the house over the past couple of weeks or so. The reception was much better before that - I would have at least 3 bars almost throughout the house. Wonder is anyone else has noted a recent deterioration in service?

Nevertheless I get spotty reception unless I sit still during my call.. and I will get interference so that the sound will fade out as though the call dropped, and then back in, or I will get static

Travel 0.25 mile in any direction and the signal is fine. this dead spot also includes a thin area on 270 that when ever you drive thru it, your call is dropped. I cant beleive its acceptable to have a dead spot on a major interstate.

I live in Flower Hill area and barely get 1 bar in the house, but have to walk around searching for it. One bar doesn't always work. Why is service so poor in a populous area like Gaithersburg?

I never get reception in the Kentlands. Everywhere else in the 20878 area is spotty. I contacted AT&T about the issue and the offered me the upgrade to a new phone. However, I already qualified for the upgrade... so, now I get to choose which next piece of crap I will use so that I do not have to pay the $175.00 to get out of my contract! AT&T has terrible service in this area. I have used AT&T since 2002 and have never had this problem in the Chicagoland area. There has to be some sort of service issue that they can correct. I hope!

Poor reception throughout greater Gaithersburg. Sometimes zero reception while in the office... . calls go straight to voice mail.

In our apartment complex (Park Station) we either get one bar or none. At least 75% of calls are dropped. It's awful.

Lots of weak / dead spots throughout upper Montgomery County, even on or close to I270. Switched to AT&T wireless 5 yrs ago because they were the only ones with reception, albeit poor, in the Darnestown area. Since the purchase of AT&T Wireless by Cingular, reception has improved a bit, but is not great, and customer service has plummeted! Numerous billing errors, services added that weren't requested, takes several billing cycles to get them resolved, etc. I've only stayed with Cingular because I was too lazy to research better services, and I didn't want to fork out the $$ for new phones -- but I'm giving them the boot now!

I use both Verizon and Cingular (dont' ask). They are about comparable indoors and out (Gaithersburg, Rockville, Bethesda, DC Metro). A few gaps, sometimes due to jamming near government installations, esp NIH. It used to be you could use Verizon on the Metro around Medical Center (Red Line) but not now... security?? Cingular promises Metro access too, since the Metro Authority is opening up WiFi and Wireless on the subway for bids to select vendors. Who knows when? Actually, that's why I keep two phones. I like Cingular's service and phone selection (esp. Blackberries) and Verizon's Metro access. BTW, Blackberries are really lousey as phones (they pick up too much ambient noise) which dedicated cell phones don't.

If we go to the top of the hill, we can connect (sometimes to the upper floor of house). Verizon was worse than Cingular. The reception is just bad at our location. We have to drive to an area where we can connect. Brink Rd. and Ridge Rd. to I-270 has good reception.

The bars show but the static ruins the call. All calls. All the time. Didn't have this problem with AT&T.

All Cingular calls dropped at this intersection

I get no reception in my office building where people with with Nextel and Verizon have strong signals. I must go outside to make calls. Poor signal strength 50% of the time no matter where I am. I switched from Nextel. I had no problems with Nextel. Now I know why the police and fire departments use Nextel.

Am still on AT&T contract with Cingular. On first floor, if I stand it the right place in the house, can get 1-2 bars, but lose connection if I walk around. no bars in basement. Signal has gotten worse in last year.

Cellular has very poor reception (searching for signal) when outside driving on a good part of Mid County Hwy. Frequent dropped calls indoors. Get only one bar in the basement and first floors, and 1-2 bars on the second floor. Reception has not improved since the merger with ATT wireless.

Switches from analog roam to digital constantly SID 13 Home SOC 2049 (old AT&T, Cingular "Blue" using Beyond Wireless Prepaid)

Called Cingular and found out: need to change serttings in my phone from automatic network detection to manual. When searching for available networks in manual mode, select second Cingular network (there will be 2 + one T-mobile), This solves the problem of poor reception. Now I don't have dropped calls or bad quality of sound. I wish I new that before. Hope this helps.

I have to stand in the bathroom on the second floor, to get a single bar of reception. The entire intersection of Muddy Branch / Great Seneca is like this for me.

I have been receiving poor reception for the past month. I will have drop calls, static and the phones will constantly be looking for network service. I will have all the bars when this is happening. I have never had a problem with any other phone services. This is very troublesome since I am locked into a contract and I don't know how I can get out of this. It is not worth having a phone service when the service is not even going to work. This is not only happening in my home area. It was also happening in Deleware and West Virginia.

i live on longdraft Right off of clopper road, every since I switched to GSM and Cingular bought AT&T Wireless service has improved, but even on the third floor is get irraic service, dropped calles and messages that arrive hours later or dont arrive at all. calls always drop, other never go through, none of my friends who have every other service provider ever gets service at my house, right as you turn onto my street service fades, the only explanation I can think of is there just isnt any towers within range to cover the gap.