Cingular. One dropped call a day. Guaranteed. That should be their revised slogan. The lucky many get more than one call dropped a day. And the very lucky few get more calls dropped per hour. The other odd thing is almost all the calls that get dropped, get dropped when I have 4 bars (highest). That makes absolutely no sense. Why did my call get dropped? because I had low reception? I had a low signal? I don't think so. I had 3-4 bars. Unless those stupid bars of reception mean absolutely nothing. A placebo to make the customer feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

service out here is cool all thought it is kinda hard to send pics sometimes but over all Verizon wireless is good

I get good reception practically everywhere. I like the service. I just wished they offered roll-over minutes / text and a family plan.

Reception is terrible. I moved here from Boston, where my coverage with Sprint was fine, but here in Charlotte it is horrible. Literally, I go through at least 5 dropped calls per day. Can't be on the phone for more than 10 minutes without the signal fading. Called today to try to get out of my contract, and the guy at Sprint said it was beause my phone was old. Didn't have much of a comeback when I said it worked fine in Boston for 2 years, so perhaps it WAS the coverage. Anyway, they won't let me out of the contract. even I lost the signal twice on the call to cancel, and they still wouldn't listen. While I'm here, I'd like to share that Sprint has far and away the worst customer service of any company - phone or otherwise - that I have ever seen in my life. They border on evil. They make the DMV look like the Maitre'D at the Ritz Carlton. Avoid them at all costs. Verizon and Alltel appear to offer the best coverage in Charlotte.

I have one or two bars... rarely three. And sometimes even with 3 bars I drop calls. Sprint reception is the worst! Not to mention I can barely use it in my home.

I can use mine in the elevator... never had a dropped call in this area!

The Worst reception for Cingular in this area. I never had the idea of what bad reception means back in atlanta. This place sucks.

Reception in one word "Sucks".

sprint in uptown is good reception. can usually even get a signal inside my bldg. home it drops to like 3 bars... and every time a plane flies over my house my calls drop. can be downstairs and get lousy reception... with fading and dead spots in my calls... go upstairs and it is better, but still drops my calls.

Sprint reception in this area is horrible. I cannot have any phone converstations from home, always have to use Landline. Yet, going towards South blvd the reception increases to 4 bars within 4 blocks. Seems like a technical glitch that can be fixed by Sprint it they tried.

Alltel has been great I have no real complaints. The rates are the best! The one thing I notice is I will usually drop a call where Independence meets the Brookshire freeway. When I dial right back the call always goes through so it might be a cell that's not doing a proper hand off.

I commute to Uptown daily via Providence Rd.and there are huge dead spots where I have no bars. My service is fine when I am at home, but there is clearly no cell towers around the corridor to uptown.

The only part of campus where I get any decent cell phone reception is in and around the Cone building to which I must walk when I need a strong connection. I am definitely switching to Verizon or Cingular

I moved from Chgo where reception was great. Here, when I am home it SUCKS! Dropped calls, missed calls and diverted calls. When I called Cingular they said - didn't know what was going on. Tower search says it should be good but... So if this is what the ad means "fewest dropped calls" it should add "with most diverted you'll never get the call".

Cingular cell service in and around the western portion of Charlotte, among every other place I drive is horrible. Consistently get dropped calls and periods no audio and / or broken voices. Pathetic service. On Wilkinson Blvd, Little Rock Rd, Rt 160, Mt Holly Huntersville Rd... Everywhere I have ever been.

Reception in the Sardis Forest Subdivision is spotty at best. On my street there is NO reception. Not just for Cingular but for other carriers as well. We drop all calls when driving into the neighborhood.

EXCELLENT Reception in this area:)

ALLWAYS get perfect reception in this area, BUT my building and parking deck gets Poor reception (D'oh) and I get dropped calls and fluxuating on / off service... wish I could work outside... lol

Reception is random from poor to ok. Used to have a Sanyo and never had any problems at home. The Sanyo had a pullout antenna, the new LG doesn't. Sprint is being helpful and trying to fix problem. I think it is a poor phone and am switching back to a Sanyo

Moved to charlotte from florida and T-Mobile has only roaming coverage. Roaming service should be provided by Cingular, but the SunCom signal keeps interfering. Teh result is my phone keeps bouncing between Cingular and SunCom. I miss incoming calls and often cannot make outboud calls. Not even manually setting the network resolves the issue.