Reception here now is near perfect. I live in an apartment near this intersection. When I first got my phone in Jan 2005, I could not use it inside the apartment. I complained to Cingular on a daily basis.. Now there is a new Cingular cell tower about 150 yards from my apartment.. Works great!! No more problems.

Very poor reception outdoors, non-existent indoors.

Poor reception outside, especially around South Grand. Just 1 bar inside most brick buildings in South City and calls usually don't ring (but I will get the "voicemail ring").

almost full bars all the time! if I have any problems I just tell my phone "search for network" and boom, it picks right up. have never roamed.

I spent $400 to get out of a contract with Sprint 5 years ago. They sucked and when you called to complain they charged you $4 to talk to a person. So, I Paid a $500 deposit $200 for a phone with Nextel 5 years ago. The service WAS great till about 6 months ago when they started merging with Sprint. Now calls drop everywhere. Customer service turned into a joke. They told me it was my outdated phone and sent me a new one. What they didn't tell me was that by accepting the new phone I was automatically sighned into a two year contract. My new phone drops calls in all the same places and as an added bonus my messages sometimes take a day to reach me. When I told them I wanted out of the contract they without the fee they told me the only way out was proof of death. Anybody know how to forge death certificate? SPRINT SUCKS AND NOW SPRINT TOGETHER WITH NEXTEL SUCKS.

We are in a fringe area. I get 3-4 bars inside my home whereas Sprint provided one bar or none and Verizon is very sketchy on two other phones in the family. I've not had a dropped call in the 4 months I have had the phone. This phone does better than my daughter's LG on Cingular, but Cingular seems to give us a stronger signal than the other carriers.

My phone is DEAD in the whole area. I cannot place a call at all. When I asked the Cingularr guy about it, he said there are a lot of dead spots in South City.

Only 1 bar of digital roaming indoors in my first floor apartment of a two floor unit. 1 bar of normal service outside, but you can't talk for more than 5 minutes or so without having your call dropped. Even digital roaming only gets 1 to 2 bars outside and frequently drops. This makes me think other carriers will not improve the situation. A service ticket has been submitted, but based on the experience of other posts, I'm not expecting a happy resolution of the problem. Sprint gets an F.

I get reception in very small spots in the house, and maybe one bar in these spots.

Consistent call dropping here all the way to lindbergh through downtown kirkwood. Right next to Meramec.

t-mobile has no reception on campus. it makes no difference if you're inside or outside.

The South 40 is like the bermuda triangle of cell phone reception for Cingular and it's annoying as hell. -K. Chopra

Usually 3-4 bars. Quite a few dropped calls in the area. Doesn't work well inside the hospital.

Sprint not only has poor reception, but poor customer service!

I get a great signal wherever I go in st. louis. Having used both Sprint and Cingular in a lot of the same locations My v551 phone works much better in more locations than Sprint ever did. Also my battery lasts a whole lot longer {some thing to consider if you are the type that talks a lot and forgets to plug in their phone at night}

verizon, good reception-but it should be for a monopoly. is there any service you can get and the company isn't just an evil-dooer with a decider for a ceo?

Am unable to even move around my home and retain a signal with Sprint PCS Service. Other than that occassional dropped calls outside my house.

Absolutely no reception anywhere on South Campus, except for one or two spots on the front lawn where 2 bars can get obtained. The most frustrating thing of all is that the phone reports full service until I actually dial, then the bars drop to 1 or none, leaving me with a one-way or choppy connection when the person answers.

I have gotten consistently good service from T-Mobile and this phone. I occasionally run into some dead spots, but if I lean the other way, I get my service back. All in all, a great phone and carrier!

Signal is consistantly good at my house, and pretty much all over St. Louis. The only place I have problems is in my interior office building at UMSL. Even outside coverage is not great on UMSL campus. But, overall, I'm very happy with Cingular reception and plans.