Yesterday, 1 bar... today full bars... I guess they put up a new tower.

Almost no reception within a couple blocks of my house. Sometimes it will ring, but the call doesn't come through.

Usally at home (in door or out door) I get about 1-2 bars. At work (Brentwood) I get 4-5 bars.

Outside buildings, reception varies from 1-2 bars; inside buildings it varies from 0-1 and occassionally reaches 2. Calls drop frequently, cell goes into roam unless you disable it, drops in and out of the network, and misses incoming calls yet miraculously receives voice mail. Sometimes fails to place a call and provides no reason other than error, try again. I have to stay within a 5 foot area of my apartment near the patio door to effectively use the phone and even that isn't always reliable.

Nice reception. Never dropped a call. On average get 5 out of 7 bars.

I get 4 bars and the phone still goes to voice mail and then beeps me. I have updated the software but Sprint just says "too bad".

Constant droped calls when on line for more than three mins. Sometimes get 4 bars, but then goes down to 2 and below. Sprint service says im being droped by high usage problems in area. Seems like other callers are taking over mine, because of my weaker reception.

Reception here is average. Typically I have anywhere from 2 to 3 bars of reception. Never 4 or 5. Usually 3 bars is a pretty decent conversation. 2 bars will have occasional static. Going outside helps a bit. I don't have dropped calls however, and AT&T customer service is pretty good. Driving east or west of here, reception improves. There are towers along Tesson Ferry and I-55. I think I just happen to be in between towers.

With AT&T TDMA I can't call or receive calls from home (3rd floor apt. in the central west end) or work (9th floor of McDonnell Peds). Reception around Wash U Medical School is also very bad, only 3 bars at best. So far I only get good reception at the Wash U undergrad campus and in the parking lot of Schnucks on Lindell. I have dropped all of my calls... so I will be cancelling my service with AT&T.

We pay too much so we expect too much! Phones are just low power 2 way radios. And why can't the galleria mall get some repeaters in there for us? Since the new Cingular merger I am getting the best reception ever. Even in parts of bourbon Missouri on the meramec my phone works. Sprint, Nextel, Verizon... no service. Those signal bars on your phone are subjective to whatever the phone maker deems signal strength and not every phone has the same ability to keep a low signal. I have Nokia 8390, Siemens S56 and Motorola v70. The v70 is choppiest, the Siemens hands down sounds the best. The Nokia works very well but sounds a bit more harsh than the Siemens, which holds a signal very well.