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Reception is excellent, but call quality is poor, dropped calls, hissing, garbled voices, sometimes the sound cuts out. Calls sometimes are clear when your face is pressed against the window. Is this AT&T's business model? Fix it

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.

sprint is an overall very good company in covrage and everything elese they offer

I had Sprint first and that was on and of inside my house and really depended on what part of the house I was in. Then I had Cingular for 2 years and it was great for the Jersey area but it was as dead as a corpse inside the house, in fact and gsm phone is no good in side my house. When I switched to Verizon I am now able to get a signal everywhere in my home including my basement and in the Jersey area I have yet to drop a call. I'll probably stick with Verizon for as long as possible.

Great reception. No handoff problems when moving from one side of the building to the other and I even get a couple of bars inside the elevator.

Cingular has done something with the network in the last year that is unbelievable! When I used TMobile's network service sucked and either I couldnt make / receive calls or they would drop at random.. Now with the new Cingular everything is perfect, elevators work, basement works.. I guess they are really raising the bar.. And I heard Cingular is getting channels from TMobile now so service is only getting better.. I recommend!

Great service no matter where I went. Good reception inside my apartment.

Great reception - I've never had any trouble with it, and I've come to like Verizon. I'd definitely recommend!

Service is great around here.. Got this phone with dual band technology that works a lot better than the old one only PCS. No dropped calls and circuits available every time I need. And Verizon sucks around here.. not sure if it is the phone or the network, maybe both..

I dont know what you guys are talking about, had T-Mobile for two years now and I ALWAYS have reception within Jersey City. Driving towards the Brunswicks tho, things get a little shaky = /