Only bad areas are in underground parking ramps, etc. Verizon has a good downtown coverage, but I'm not sure their high prices are worth their data plans.

if I get in or even near the elevator in the building at 800 washington Ave. the signal gets dropped. and does not return until I leave the elevator. and sometimes the building

Sprint does not have good service in Northeast Minneapolis. Sitting at my desk, my phone would go from 2 bars to suddenly dropped call all the time. Then when I call back a second time, I can be on the phone without it dropping again. More recently, I've found that sitting at the same place, that my phone can't even make an outgoing call as it could before. It will read "dialing" and finally just quit.

Most of the time its full-occasionally goes down to 4. Then again, I am on the 22nd floor.

Absolutely terrible reception, many dropped calls, calls that can't go through. Steady decline in service / bars since Cingular bought ATT Wireless. Worst during peak usage time (evenings and weekends). Terrible static. When I call Cingular to complain, they tell me to call back on a landline because they can't hear / understand me since I'm breaking up so badly. Also abysmal customer service.

As a delivery working out of downtown Minneapolis, I couldn't ask for anything more. Works much better than expected inside most buildings, be they high-rises, 100 year-old warehouses, or the HCMC complex. As you get out of downtown, there are some weaker zones in some neighborhoods where a Verizon phone might not work reliably indoors, but outdoos, having a usable signal is a rule unbroken within Mpls city limits. (That can be expected with any provider - that's what trial periods are for.)

I get great reception, and even 2 bars in the elevators at the Fifth St.Towers.

Qwest rollover to Sprint towers in late August. Since then have terrible reception. Previously I could call from three floors below street level from freight elevator and not be dropped. Now 70 ft. from front door off Marquette can't keep two bars on phone. At recommendation of Qwest CS will try other phones, Nokia 3586i and 6225, Motorola T720 and T731, Sanyo SCP-8100 for better reception. If no improvement I'm going to Nextel or Verizion.

Verizon is terrible in Northern Minnesota. AT+T is adding new super tall cell phone towers. Time to switch carriers.

Spotty at best. Sometimes calls are ok. At other times, and for long periods of time, I get no reception and can't make or receive calls.

Constantly getting dropped calls although ATT says a good coverage area. I'll have 5 bars, make a call, and have the bars go to one or none and then the dreaded "Call Failed" message. Customer service has never been helpful - they first maintained it was a hardware problem. Swapped out devices, SIM cards, and the first call made to them to test the replacement phone dropped! ATT, on follow up calls, fixes the problem for a few days and then it reverts!

my phone worked better in the state of Oregon than it does here. Funy, seeing that that map shows complete red for MN-- and not for Oregon.

I use to be with Qwest and always had good reception - but since I got my iphone Im stunned by the number of dropped calls I have with the ATT network - every day, several times a day calls get dropped - I never had this problem with other phones in the past. I'm not sure if it is partly the fault of the iphone but I have a friend who also have an iphone and he experiences the same thing. I live in Summit HOuse Condos which is all concrete and a high-rise and reception in the house it not good at all - better outside for sure - but even then - the dropped calls drive me nuts. But I love the phone too much to part with it right now.

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!

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!

My Treo goes from full signal to no signal. Lots of dropped calls. Have changed phones twice. Still note much better.

Consistently poor reception for the first year and a half of my 2 year contract. I even tried to upgrade to a very expensive phone but Sprint's ridiculous policy and piss-poor business sense made it so it's actually more worthwhile for me to just suffer through my contract until it expires, and go with someone else, even if their reception isn't much better, just to spite Sprint. This would be like if I brought my 10-year old vehicle into a car dealer, wanting to buy a 2006 model, and they blew me off and sent me out the door!

Most of Kenwood neighborhood has poor reception, phone does not even reliably ring when standing outside. Large area bounded by Mt Curve, Hennepin and Cedar Lake is bad (not sure how far south). Verizon has checked (very reluctantly) and reports their equipment if fine, there is nothing more they can do. We have 5 differnt cell phones, all have same reception. I'm looking for a repeater / booster for my house.

very poor signal I have to borrow other people's cell phones (non cingular / att ) to make calls I talked to Cingular representative about this issue and up to now no word from them

My reception is so bad that I find myself forced to go outdoors to talk. I live in a tall tower, but everyone else I know here has a cell and fewer problems. I get a loud whir sometimes, clicks, and also some weird problems like voicemail and text messages taking hours to come through. I am shopping for new service and have been so burned that I think I will stick with pay-as-you go because if my new phone is this crummy, I will have to get out of my contract. It's just not worth it.