Never had problems with reception except for a bunch of dropped calls (pretty standard with verizon). Looking to switch to a carrier that doesn't lock down the features of their phones and isn't quite so expensive. Looking towards Cingular but scared service might drop off.

I get 5 bars of reception in my house with this phone.I believe that you get what you pay for.If you get a cheap phone,you get cheap service.Cingular has better phones anyway.Dont believe the misconception of Cingular being a bad cell phone carrier.By the way,get a quad band phone,it picks up all frequencies.

Verizon customer for 3 years and never had any complaints as far as service.Only flaw is the type of phones that they keep coming out with. Get best reception out of this phone almost everywhere I go.Hope Verizon steps it up in that aspect.

I would like to say that it has everything to do with the phone model. I have the Sprint PCS 4900 and get excellent reception everywhere in AA county, including the so called "dead spots" While all of my friends get terrible or no reception. Standing in the same spot they will have no service with sprint, and I will have 5 bars. I have stood side by side with verizon, nextel, cingular, and yes other Sprint customers in the same basement elevator and I'm the only one who will not drop the call. So pick your cell phone model carefully. It's a shame manufactures are not required to post reception quality on advertisements. They lose customers who believe it's coverage not the phone.

Excellent coverage all over this area. Just moved from Orlando and could not be happier with SPCS coverage!

as long as I am outside, it is perect... once inside, I start losing bars. I live in a basement apartment and I have to stand by a window to keep from getting kicked off line... ..this has happened with ALL of my phones with cingular

I'm in the military and travel all over the US all the time. I had Nextel and half the time didn't get any reception and didn't get reception at all in my house. After asking around the office about what everyone else had and what their experiance was I decieded to switch to Verizon. I second day we had our phones I was on the road and called my wife. I was traveling through the Fort McHenry tunnel and had great, crystal clear reseption the whole time. I have had several wireless services and am now a Verizon customer for life.