Cingular / ATT terrible here. Average of 1 bar, sometime have 3 bars for a few minutes. Often drops to 0 bars and drops my call. Lots of static. People with Verizon come over here and their phones don't seem to work well either.

Nextel will actually get decent reception in the hospital, but there are areas on my drive home from work (west past Jackson)... and still on campus that the phone just drops out! I have been with Nextel for over 6 years, from Cass County to Hillsdale County... into Detroit and Ann Arbor most weeks. Now that my phone is broken and I need to replace, I am considering a change in service providers because of the horrible customer service from Nextel! Worst yet is the forwarding of my customer service calls to another county where no one knows what Ann Arbor is!

1-2 bars is my average reception all over the town. I have had full coverage at Arborland Mall but almost nowhere else. Regularly have fluctuating reception shuttling rapidly from 0-6 bars and virtually every call over 1 minute is dropped. Three handset replacements later.. no difference. I will not be staying with T-Mobile and I can't understand for all cell services why Americans put up with such shoddy coverage in major conurbations.

I travel from Ann Arbor to Detroit daily. Calls always drop on M-14 between Ford Rd. and the Wayne County line.

Decent (about 3 bars) outside to poor (one or no bars) in buildings. Indoors, reception is better in upper floors; poor to non-existent on lower floors.

I was with ATT, received poor reception, but with Cingular I have NO reception EVER!

never am I without service unless I am in a basement on central campus. Good Service

A year ago I switched to T-Mobile from Verizon just because I felt like it. Verizon works decently all over campus, but reception in the libraries, basements, middle of buildings, etc is very limited. T-Mobile is great everywhere. I get 3 or 4 bars inside both the undergrad and engineering libraries, in the basement of my house, and pretty much every university building. I highly recommend T-Mobile for this area.

I live in Orchard Grove, I can not use my phone at all in this park or on Scio Church or Waters Rd. I work in a ware house on Airport Dr. and it does not work in there and most of the time it will not work in Meijers or Target.

I have never had service this great! Even in the basement of St. Luke where I work (near Glencoe Hills), I still get calls every time. Everyone else gets spotty coverage downstairs. Verizon customer service is probably the best I have ever interacted with in any industry. I just pray that Apple makes a CDMA iPhone. My desire for the iPhone is only eclipsed by the utter lack of reception I had using Cingular.

For about 20 miles around Ann Arbor absolutely no signal at all.

Horrible reception as soon as you enter any building in the area. Mediocre reception around Ann Arbor, tons of dropped calls and calls going right to voicemail without ringing.

I need to put aluminum foil on my head to get a signal from Cingular.

I live near Pioneer HS and work over in Avis Farms (near A2 Airport off State Road). I can't remember the last time I had a call dropped. My reception is almost flawless.

I get absolutely no recepton in my apartment or outside, until I walk up to Plymouth Rd. The T-Mobile technician said enhancements are scheduled for the tower possibly in the next three months, until then I can't use my phone. T-Mobile has been unwilling to negotiate or let me out of the contract even though I don't have service. They just cycle me through their rude customer service representatives. I've checked Cingular service in my apartment and it gets six bars in our apartment. I'll probably switch to Cingular, since I get no signal with T-mobile.

I used to have Sprint and my coverage wasn't as bad as T-Mobile in my house. I live on the corner of Vinewood and Geddes and my phone rings in the house on the first floor but cuts off when I answer it all the time. If i'm lucky I'll get 2 bars. I have to go up in the atticl to get at least a couple of bars and be able to call without drops. It also cuts out in the area along Vinewood towards Washtenaw. I'm not realy satisfied with T-Mobile in this area.

Great coverage on West side, Central Campus, and Medical School Campus, but terrible on North Campus (just like everyone else). Ocassionally drops calls in Medical School even when I have 5 bars, but I think that has to do with all the interference from scientific equipment.

I get better reception in Ann Arbor with my Sprint service than I've ever gotten in another city.

Phone is constantly in Analog mode and by the time I leave the building my battery is almost dead. Not sure if it's the area, phone or battery. No where in the building does the phone work. Works great in the parking lot.

I don't know why, but T-Mobile service inside Briarwood is terrible. The worst areas seem to be inside JC Penney (no service whatsoever) and occasionally Marshal Field's. If you enter a store there's a considerable drop in bars, but if you stay out in the main hallways it's OK.