Sometimes, the bars in this area go from 1 to 3bars! Sometimes, you can't hear anything, then the bars will come back and you can hear again. I never get to the 5th bar until I get to major areas: anywhere within a mile radius of the Interstate, 144th and Center area (Cingular store nearby), near the midtown Cingular store on 76th and Dodge, 108th and Q (my work is in that area) has ALL of the bars ALL of the time! My friend that lives down the street has Sprint and gets 5 bars all the time! But, I like Cingular..they just need to improve the network in the Omaha Metropolitan Area.

*Phone setting to 'Alltel Home Network', no service. Half way between Pacific and W. Center Rd streets. Note: Westside High School has very poor reception to Alltel towers 0-2 at best. My high school son's phone will go to "out of plan" roaming and gets additional charges (we have the Nat'l Plan).

I travel all areas of Omaha, from Council Bluffs to Waterloo to Blair to Gretna frequently, and only lose some signal in the valleys north of Omaha / C.B.

0 or 1 bars in and around the mall. If you can place or receive a call, you'll never be able to finish it while you're in the mall.

VERY crappy here. Drops signal all the time!

No Service in many parts of omaha. Awful customer service regarding cancellation of current contract that was started in Colorado. Recommend that people stay away from T-mobile

It is nearly impossible to get any reception at the bottoms of hills, frequent dropped calls. This is my 2nd Cingular phone and it's the same way.

BAD reception of Cingular GSM. It was much better when it was ATT GSM. Fairly typical across Omaha, bad here!

Switched from Virgin Mobile with the Kyocera Slider phone to Verizon and the Motorola v276. A VAST improvement. What a joy to actually get reception bars in my own home! I specifically avoided Sprint / Nextel because Virgin Mobile used some of their towers for service, and I literally got no bars in my house. Other friends with Sprint have smae complaints of 'dead zones'. So far, very pleased with Verizon and my Motorola.

Have an old TDMA phone and reception constantly bounces up and down and is non-existant in several places in my home. I assume it is better with GSM. I would not recommend Cingular TDMA in this area, though I have had excellent service with them elsewhere.

Great reception with Sprint in NorthWest Omaha. I get service in any buildings, in my basement, and have tried it as far out as Elkhorn and Waterloo with no issues at all.

Every place in Omaha I have taken this phone has showed me 4-5 bars of reception. EXCEPT my home or my neighborhood! Within a block of my house there is this 'dead zone' where reception is nill.

Reception stinks inside houses, had to go outside, and then fine.

Great service downtown and around town. UP Center has great service and have not experienced many dropped called.

No recpetion at home at 156th and Harrison or in office at 72nd and mercy. Frequent drops. 84th St.drops. Interstate Drops. 132nd and Harrison drops. SMT5600 better than mpx flavor.

Verizon is the only carrier that I have used that maintains a signal in my basement. I have used Alltel and Sprint and was lucky to carry a bar in or around my house.

little or no reception along 156 corridor particularly between Dodge, Maple and Fort

No reception in large buildings. Brand new phone. Displays "roam" (I live in Omaha!) no bars, no ring / vibrate. Have to shut down phone, step outside to "reset" to home system.

Excellent reception throughout the downtown area.

Some areas in my neighborhood 54th and Blondo have significant drop of signal. I have checked this with three different phone models. Very dissappointing!