No reception in the house, one bar (sometimes) outside. ATT gave me a microcell, unsolicited, a year or so ago. It works in the winter, usually, but not when there are leafs on the trees.

Terrible reception in Germantown with AT&T. Sometimes I have as little as one bar of service at my home. Pretty darn pathetic as I'm only 15 miles north pf the 7th largest metropolitan area in the country. Then again, some areas of downtown Washington D.C. are deadzones for cell reception with AT&T. When I go shopping at Target at the Milestone Shopping Center here in town I literally have no reception. Will be switching to T-Mobile as soon as my contract is up.

I have both AT&T (for work) and Verizon (personal). AT&T's coverage is consistently weak from White's Ferry all the way through Potomac and points in between. Verizon on the other hand has flawless coverage. In fact I get three bars while crossing on White's Ferry to zero bars on AT&T. Around Germantown, Verizon is hands down better. I do extensive traveling around the USA and have discovered that Verizon is best on the East Coast and AT&T is best on the West Coast. As far as Montgomery County Maryland is concerned, stick with Verizon.

I generally get between 2 to 5 bars but occasionally I will have no service. I never know which I will get and have had dropped calls too often. At my parents house in Aspen Hill area of Flint Rock rd, I never get any service in my parents basement and have to go upstairs or outside to talk usually. As another reviewer stated, I can't believe living in a major tech area that customers have so many issues with reception. Not acceptable!

No / Poor signal in Milestone shopping center, such as inside Kohl's, Target and Walmart.

I have T-Mobile and Outdoor the Signal is Powerfull no complaint,no dropp call at all. being honest I never I had one. but inside my apartment the signal turn little bit weak I get 2 sometimes 3 bar of 5... I don`t think its too bad... . because I used had AT&T and the services was insane ( a lo`t of dropp call everytime with out reason with 5 signal bar. plus inside my house no comment...

Guys, in my area, there is almost no reception. Called AT&T many times but there is no response, they keep saying they might add tower but I dont see it happening since past 3 months now. I would request more AT&T customers from my area to call up AT&T to complain if they aren't getting good signals.

For the last 2 days, I couldn't send / receive emails, BBM, etc.. until I drive across the bridge (I-270).

I have Cingular(AT&T) for 9 year. I get full bars in my area and other places..

My Verizon Wireless BlackBerry works great everywhere I go, best carrier I've used by far. Went on a trip down South to Alabama and Tennessee, and it worked well even in remote areas along the road. Had a lot of trouble with reception on the Sprint cellphone issued by my office. Ended up using my personal Verizon BB for work and personal business all week.

I moved to Germantown,MD in July and since then have been frustrated with T-Mobile reception and quality. I work in DC and it has been equally bad. I'm waiting for another week to get out of my contract and perhaps switch to Verizon (although their plans are relatively quite expensive).

Very poor reception. This phone works great everywhere else

I have been a customer of Sprint PCS since 1998. Over the years, reception has improved dramatically in the Germantown, MD area. I believe it is due to expansion of towers around the area. Reception in the Germantown / Boyds area off Rt. 118 and Clopper is great. The signal in my townhouse is very strong and I never experience any dropped calls. In fact, most people think I'm on a landline due to the high call quality. Friends that come over that subscribe to Verizon Wireless do not get a signal in my home. They have to stand outside in front of my house to get a signal (and it's weak).

I've had Sprint and Cingular. Most of my friends have either Nextel, Verizon, or T-Mobile. Only us with the Verizon phones have any service throughout my house. In fact everybody leaves their phones upstairs if we go in the basement so they can still receive their calls without them being sent straight to voicemail. Sprint was the worst I've tried with Cingular not too much better. I had to pay a cancelation fee on 3 phones to break Sprints contract because I didn't get reception anywhere I ever really needed to be. (Work, Home, Friends and Families Homes) Trust me, it was worth it.

Seems to have gotten much much worse last few months. Calls get dropped numerous times. Sometimes call doesn't go thru until I have re-dialed, and sometimes more than once. Often the other person ends up shreiking they can't hear me in the middle of a conversation. A big problem since my main reason for buying was to be able to make long distance phone calls to my Mom and instead this... and I can't use it for telecommuting long-distance either, same reason. I like the *phone* but am very disappointed not to be able to use it. Seems usually ok in other areas than the one I live in, unfortunately. When I called in for help, they told me to charge the battery--which I do, faithfully, with no improvement. Just tried the advice from one of the other reviewers here (to go to manual network)--didn't work tonight but I'll try that again.

The phone barely has any reception to begin with in the area and then cuts out repeatedly during every conversation.

Great reception indoors (townhouse) and out. Very pleased.

I get two bars around this area, and it really sucks.

No signal at all in and around the Target in the Millstone Shopping area...

5 / 5 Bars anywhere in the house. 3 / 5 bars in the basement. Had Verizon prior and, although the signal was ok, the sound quality on Verizon's network isn't nearly as good as Sprint. Tried several different brands of phones with them and they just couldn't compare. When Sprint says crystal clear calls, they mean it.