What kind of joke is it that only half a mile from downtown that I can barely get a signal and that I often drop calls driving down the street? In my building it's practically a dead zone!

very poor reception in house... sometimes I have to go outside to use the phone. If AT&T does not fix by winter, I'll be switching carriers.

Cingular has me cursing every day as well. Can't phone from the house. Constant drops downtown as well.

Awful. Just horrible. AT&T has gotten worse over the years.

Have been with Verizon for over 6 years the reception in south mpls is poor as is the reception in West St. Paul where we lived prior. You would think it would be to their benifit to fix this known problem, it has to be time consuming for their service staff to field the complaints regarding this problem. What ever reason it has to be cusing problems for a great number of customers. Hey maybe when the leaves fall the reception will improve NOT!

No signal, friends with other carriers have full everywhere.

i get no reception in my apartment and must go outside get any reception. Even here, though, 1 out of every 3 calls is dropped. I also get almost no reception at the U of M campus and in several other spots in the cities. I was told that I needed to buy a new phone by the reps in the downtown store because my phone is so old that it will naturally have bad reception. I just moved to the cities three weeks ago and had perfect reception all over the state I previously lived in. I asked friends of mine that work for Cingular in my home state about it and they said that the reps response was more a ploy to get me to get into a new contract or to spend money on a new phone. I will admit that friends with T-Mobile and Verizon report substandard reception in my apartment, but not as many problems with dropped calls and lack of reception as I have.

My wife and I each have the XV6700 PocketPC and we must give you one bit of advice when considering this phone. DON'T DO IT! Reception is sub-poor most anywhere in the cities, but have to admit at the State Fair yesterday and we both had full bars. I have friends that have Verizon and their phones are getting coverage nicely... it is my opinion that this phone is a very poor design. It runs WindowsCE so that may be most of its problem. ;)

DO NOT USE AT&T in the Minneapolis Market. I am counting the days to say BYE BYE to AT&T as my contract finally expires December 07. I constantly struggle to get a signal in both uptown and downtown areas. Over the last year I've asked about this at the cingular / att retail kiosks - and even the employees have agreed lots of signal related complaints come through all the time!

Almost no reception outside, no reception inside. When I go to a Verizon store and ask about new phones, they tell me reception is very good in all neighborhoods in 55448. When I tell them about my current problem they recommend I buy a signal booster for my house ($200 to 300). Great! With Verizon they want you to put up your own tower!

I live on the second floor of a duplex and my signal bars fluctuate between 0 and 5. Calls over 5 minutes long get dropped 80% of the time. After going into an At&T store and being (falsely) told that I need to upgrade my phone because it doesn't support the 1900mHz band (it does) they wouldn't register my reception complaint. Bye bye AT&T. I just wish I knew who to get service from. My sister lives nearby at 24th Ave and 38th St.and seems to have good luck with Verizon.

I live on the south side of NMMC, and coverage is DISMAL! 2 bars at best. What a joke. It's the same way at my place of employment in Plymouth too, BTW. I'm switching to T-Mobile as I type this.

Sprint worked fine the first few years of my contract. In May 07 my phone died when it was less than a year old ($350+ Treo 650... it had sooo many glitches.) They also sold me a $79 bluetooth headset and was later told by a store rep that it would 'not work with a Treo.' Nice sales job guys. I purchased new Treo $650 (for $35.) Horrific service ever since. I have lost hundreds of dollars in business due to voicemails 'appearing' after weeks, sketchy IM service and nearly every call drops. It is impossible to complete a business call. Sprint is an embarassment. I can't even use it in my own home. I spent no less that 48 hours on phone with Sprint (using land line.) I was told there are 3 towers 37th and Bryant, 38th and Clinton and Pleasant / Portland. They took one down and told me it would be back up in July. Then changed it to Fall..then said they never took tower down, then said it would be up in 08. So I have a $350 phone FULL of business contacts I cannot use. They sent me another phone to try (Katana DLX.) Impossible to transfer all my contacts until I buy $50+ in software and cables for the DLX. My frustration level is OFF THE CHARTS. You are on hold for no less that 20 minutes whenever you call, and then get transferred, cut off or passed off to someone in another country whom you cannot understand. For what I pay a month, this is a complete rip off. WHY TAKE DOWN A PHONE TOWER W / OUT SOLID PLANS TO REPLACE IT? At least keep your stories straight as I've caught you lying to me several times already.

T-Mobile has improved significantly - recently I even get reception in the building elevator. Keep up with the tower expansions. Just last year over half of my calls were dropped inside my building.

Great reception everywhere. Work in a big brick building here and never have any problems.

Always seem to get good reception here. There's a spot closer to the Nokomis Coffee Shop where I ALWAYS drop calls, but it's just a few block there. Sometimes I'll have full bars and the phone just won't ring when a call comes through, but that only happens about once a month.

The Alltel service has been very pleasing in the Mpls / St Paul metro areas. I have been able to place calls and have never had a situation where it hasn't worked well.

I will switch as soon as I can, it's the worst

I get horrible reception with my LG phone on Verizon. I'm really disappointed! I've gotten software updates, etc., but friends that also have Verizon have problems down in this area (South Minneapolis). It is also really bad around 35th and Cedar. Sprint is no better. I finally was able to get out of my Sprint contract several years ago. I couldn't even keep a call going long enough to make my full complaint to customer service. It kept getting dropped. I had to call Sprint from my land line. I think they got the gist of the problem. Ugh! I may try T-Mobile or a different carrier. Isn't it something that you could get better reception through the hills of Utah or through some rural area in Minnesota than in the city of Minneapolis?

Can I just say this? DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THIS HORRIBLE COMPANY! The service totally sucks - every time you switch towers the "free" roaming - just drops you. So you're constantly being dropped unless standing still - and that's only if you're standing within range of a decent cell tower. They do NOT care about it - it's nothing to get stuck in a tech support queue for 45-60 minutes only to be given a half-answer and no clear solution. This is a really raw deal including the whole thing where ATT Wireless was supposedly acquired by Cinguler - they told all of us we needed new phones (at a price) and now guess what? They are back to being ATT Wireless again. We were screwed, and it's still going on. PAY ATTENTION TO THIS POST EVERYONE. DO NOT GET ATT (Cingular) if you live in this area.