5 bars to none, 5 to one, 5 to one... ..up and down for the last month in the exact spot without moving. It's getting ridiculous. I can understand no reception but to have full bars down to none, this is ridiculous.

People must realize, that reception DOES depend on the model and quality of phone. My Ericsson Z520A does very well.. but my Motorola V551 blows chunks. I was lucky to keep 2 bars on it. Reception DOES drop to 1 bar at random times, but in general, I get 4-5 bars very consistently. There are a couple of dead-zones in the JC area. Notably along the road into Liberty State Park. Outdoors, my reception is 5 bars, nearly always. Again.. I strongly attribute this to the phone I'm using. I'll never go near Motorola again, because of this.

i luv my phone but the reception in my house is awful. even my roommate gets crappy reception! I an in a populated area.. why NO reception??... I constantly have to move around my house to find a signal!

I lived here for 2 years and never got any good service using Cingular in my apartment. I lived on the 20th floor and faced south. I had to stand by the window anytime I wanted to use the phone, and I still got horrible service... dropped calls, voice cuts in and out. It was very frustrating.

I have Cingular and live on the lower floor of the new Shore condos. I only get service (about 4 bars) when I stand close to the balcony door or actually on the balcony. Otherwise, I get sketchy service everywhere else in my condo. The farther away from the balcony door, the worse it gets. The phone is completely useless about 10 feet away from the balcony door.

Coverage is pretty good. FYI, Cingular has coverage underground in the Pavonia-Newport PATH station (phone gets 4-5 bars underground!). They must have integrated it with the Public Safety radiax. This map is definitely missing a lot of tower sites in Jersey City. My building has a tower, and I can see at least 5 more cell sites out my window, and none are pictured in the tower map. I used to be a T-Mobile customer, and thought coverage was pretty good in downtown JC.

Hate Cingular - it has poor service all over Jersey city. I drop all my calls within 3 minutes.

No reception inside home. Lot of dead spots near Newport mall, BJs etc. Very huge call drops. Don't go for Cingular.

live on one of the middle floors and reception on Cingular network is spotty at best. Sometimes I will have perfect reception and then for a couple hours no reception at all. Verizon gets best reception in this area (through friends' phones)

The advertisement with Cingular in UNTRUE. I get dropped calls, poor signal and reception inside the apartment all the time. This became very apparent when Cingular took over my previous service, AT&T Wireless. The only advantage with Cingular is the roll-over minutes. It's very pathetic since Jersey City is just minutes away from Hoboken, Newark and New York City where reception and signal is better than average.