No problems at all. Good reception throughout the area - in the neighborhood and in the region.

Excellent vzw reception here - much better than Sprint.

However, inside my home drops to below average.

always 2-3 bars inside the house and 3-4 outside. great service

I get 2-3 bars in the house, 3-4 outside. I have found no provider with better service here - T-Mobile was 1 bar indoors, 2 outdoors, and AT&T was zero bars anywhere.

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

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.

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

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.

Two to three bars with variation which has led to drop calls. Poor to no reception in Giant grocery store and in Target (Washingtonian shopping center (Rio)). No improvements after reporting several times. Would recommend another carrier.

Sometimes my signal goes in and out but most of the time am able to make phone calls and receive phone calls as long as I am near a window or sliding glass door. Sometimes if someone leaves me a message I dont get notification until 10 minutes to 2-5 hours after the fact.

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.

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.

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

In my basement, 1 or 2 bars. Occassionally calls are dropped, but usually am able to make calls ok.

Outdoor: 2 bars. Indoor: 0 bar.

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?

Reception was very bad in this area - no bars unless I went upstairs, near a window and then might get one bar. Outdoors was the same - as if I needed to be on the roof to use the phone.

Keeps dropping calls and not getting calls (straight to voicemail)