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Inconsistent garbage just about sums up my signal, anywhere near my house I get garbled phone calls that make me sound like the guy on that commercial, can you hear me now? Phone calls usually just do not happen unless I am near a window, Cingular truly must have the least dropped calls because you can't DROP what you never picked up in the first place right? I use texting a lot and that goes well most of the time because my phones are good, however, even outside I get dropped calls and my bars never go above 2-3, at any time, even my parents and siblings all on family talk get only 3 bars at best. I do not talk much though unless its night time, I stick to texting so I can work around it.

From start to finish Cingular service was a big disappointment! No outgoing calls could be made without failing at least 3 times before getting through. Once the call connected it was major garble as you ran outside to capture more signal the call would drop everytime. I never disconnected my Nextel service during this 15day nightmare, thank god. With Nextel I can be at Meijer on Eureka and call my husband who will be at home in our basement and get through no problem! Not only could I not get a signal at home but the Razr v3 was very hard to hear from. The volume in the earpiece was horrible. So even if I left home and could get all bars it was still the game of "hello, can you hear me now"

Had less than 10 dropped calls since I had Cingular service 4 years ago. Didn't notice any dropped calls within the last 2 years. I use my phone throughout taylor, Lincoln Park, Allen Park, Romulus, Dearborn, Livonia and Carleton. I always have full reception. When I'm up north around Tawas, I get strong signal also. I'm going to try Nextel this fall for their two way bacause all my friends have it. I'll post my reception for Nextel when I get it. If they're not good, I will be going back to Cingular.

Purchased 2 v551 phones with Cingular to replace my contract with Verizon due to the Roll-Over Minutes that Cingular offers. Verizon costs more but had better coverage too. Cingular is an all digital network that can't get it in places like walking down the hallway in the mall while Verizon could. Since I don't spend all day in the mall my friends will just have to wait till I'm done shopping. There are some spots in the mall where I get reception like in the courtyards. The Cingular phones are cool but the reception technology has reception issues. Verizon phones allow you to switch to the old analog system when you are out of range for digital carrier signals. Verizon works well up North (in the house) while Cingular works too but I have to walk outside to the street to place a call. Verizon works well in my downriver home's basement while Cingular is touch-and-go. Verizon just changed their policy with respect to Holidays. Verizon use to offer minute free calls on holidays but are now going to bill as peak minutes unless you call late at night. This change and the fact of the non-rollover minutes from Verizon pushed me to Cingular. I just have to get use to the downside now with the reception issues. I'm buying replacement antennas for my phones that will allow my to extend the v551 antennas up to 2 inches, maybe this will help my dropped calls in the mall.