Terrible reception in and around the house. Conversations are very hard because of the bad connections. I hear rumors of help coming, but beign close to the end of contract terms, I may switch from Verizon

We can't use our phones in the house most of the time unless we stand still near a window. Also, Cingular drops calls throughout the Lochmere neighborhood. Every time I go home I have to finish up my calls before I get near Lochmere. And Cingular also drops calls on Davis Dr.in Morrisville and on dips in the Cary Parkway. I just had a 5-minute conversation with my husband on his Cingular serviced Sony Ericsson P900. He was en route from the Sears at the Cary Mall to North Hills and he dropped calls three times. We are very frustrated with Cingular's service where we live and work.

1010 is a dead zone. A giant black hole at least as far down as Lake Wheeler.

Phone is unusable inside home. Very poor reception if one stands in the yard.

I get very reliable reception with my new Sony Ericsson phone (the only one for Sprint / Verizon, the T608). I had a Sanyo 8200 before, it had s0-so reception (almost NEVER over 3 bars, commonly having under 2). I have also used a Samsung VI-660 (the "free" one), and it was absolutly terrible. A complete nightmare for you and whoever you are trying to call, and rarely had any kind of reception. Phone seems to makes a 70% difference, service 30%. I have had 3 completely different experinces with 3 phones on the same network in the same area. DO NOT< / b> get that free phone that came with the plan, it will ruin your entire experince. Do your research on phones, regardless of service provider.

Just switched phones, hoping to get better reception in my apt., as a cell phone is the only phone I have. But I still get 0 or 1 bars in my apartment, consistently. I was hoping to switch to Cingular, but I'm apprehensive about this after reading this site! My sister just got back from China where she could talk on her cell phone in the subway! When are we going to catch up?

Been through AT&T, Cingular, SunCom, and back to Cingular -- without ever having changed plans!

Cingular reception sucks in this area, as they have all their subscribers riding on SunCom's netowrk in this area. I did receive an email a couple of weeks ago that we are being switched back to Cingular's network(Former AT&T Wireless network) soon so I am hoping that the service gets back to normal again. I'll give it another month or so beofre I move on from Cingular.

Unbelievable! Calls consistently dropped on I-40 in Cary and in other points throughout the Triangle. Consistently low bars in many spots in the Triangle. The prior Alltel service I had in this area was 10x better.

Have had Cingular for years. Three phones. I am thankfully at the end of the latest contract. Three months ago reception went from good to horrible. All three phones drop calls after connecting. Reception varies between 2 and 0 bars. Phones roam in Raleigh and Cary. Something has changed in Cingular land - stay away!