No service in building on West 86th street. Phone network changes to At&t, even though I pay for T-Mobile service. I always drop calls especially before entering the one train. Awful service.

No reception whatsoever on the first floor back in the year 2005 when I first bought my first phone ever, I was 15 years old. As soon as you enter the building, phone showed that there is no service. Since I had no service back then I decided to switch to AT&T at the time. Well recently about a month ago, I decided to buy the cheapest prepaid T-Mobile plan to see if this problem has been fixed and because I want to leave AT&T... But as of right now year 2011, the problem hasn't been fixed! A problem that has been happening since 2005! Called T-Mobile explained it to them, that it has been years that my building never gets service from their network. They said the signal was weak in my area but they couldn't guarantee that they would install a new tower just for me. And then people wonder why they're a failing business? 6 years and they never corrected the problem. No wonder they're going out of business! However I don't agree with AT&T buying T-Mobile as I want to leave AT&T. It is better that another company buys T-Mobile so that the consumers can have another GSM choice besides AT&T! If AT&T buys T-Mobile then AT&T will have a monopoly over GSM phones period! No matter how good their service is after they merge! STILL A MONOPOLY OF GSM!

163rd and Broadway, 3rd level. No service in my apt. and building from T-mobile. My MetroPCS phone - all 5 bars all around my apt and building. T-Mobile - No Service! Walked around the neighborhood (5-7 block radius) - Signal jumps between 2 bars and 5 bars... only few times got 3G signal.

T-mobile sucks, especially if you are attending Baruch College. It just loses signals right after I entered the building. I think I should switch to Verizon.

Densely populated area like most of Manhattan, lots of upscale buildings, big surprise T-Mobile service is so bad, especially inside any building. Voice calls often go through on some phones (Android G1 - yes, but with problems, Blackberry Pearl - no, cheap Nokia - no). Wireless Internet does not work at all, drops connection every minute.

T-mobile in midtown is TERRIBLE inside office buildings. Data connection is virtually non-existent most of the business day, especially during stock market hours. Even when the signal indicator shows 4 or 5 bars, the internet still doesn't connect. Call quality is also very choppy. Signal strength would fluctuate between 4 bars and no network, as if there are too many T-Mobile subscribers for their towers to handle. However, T-Mobile data connection in Brooklyn is fantastic, often reaching 3.5G.

T-mobile in the upper west side of Manhattan is pretty good outdoors, but HORRIBLE indoors! That means that the towers are far away from this area. I have to wait outside to finish calls otherwise I loose them once I go in. Seems like AT&T is better for this area if you have GSM. Best carrier overall is Verizon. I never hear of anyone having problems with their network.

I have been a happy T Mobile customer, never any problem, always reception with little exceptions. If its up to me, I would never leave them but since 3 days, I have no reception at home. I heard more people in Washington Heights, who had reception before, lost it and need to switch. Anyone have an idea how to find out about a "lost" tower?

Near spotless coverage in my apartment building on the T-Mobile network, even on the lower floors, even in the elevators. Alternately, the lower floors (and my apartment, for sure) are known to be dead zones for phones running on the AT&T network. T-Mobile wins, in this case.

I get no reception in the entire office building.

I just switched to T-mobile, and I have no service at all in Grand Central Terminal, New York. Can't believe it.

No problems, works beautifully unless deep inside a building.

Takes a while to acquire the signal, but works well when found.

Takes a long time to find the signal, but once found it works fine, even inside buildings as long as you're not more than 50 from a window.

the worst carrier in nyc ever... don't get t-mobile

I was with T-Mobile for two years, only because I had a contract with them. I hate T-Mobile with a passion. Never got a signal and got a lot of missed calls in my apartment. Couldn't talk for more than 5 minutes because the service would drop out of no where.Even when traveling, barely received a reception. The customer service was not helpful. I switched over to AT&T and I have full bars and haven't had a drop call. I couldn't be happier.

Reception inside the Home Depot is either poor, or nonexistent. This is not good for contractors who need to use their phone inside the store for business.

lousy, fluctuating reception, but often none at all on and around campus

Dropped calls and hours of my phone "searching" for service but never finding it.

Reception is only intermittent in building. Most of the time there is no reception on my floor. Have had the same experience with other phone models, so this isn't a phone issue.

very poor reception, lots of dropped calls, and many "all circuits busy" messages for me and wife (also on t-mobile). Absolutely frustrating.

When I started working at W 86th and West end ave 3 weeks ago I had like 2 bars and could send and receive calls. Now there is no service within a block of the apartment, sometimes more. I called T mobile and they filed the complaint, but I don't get cell service, so I am not a happy customer. Have to use the client's phone to coordinate the work and my workers get 3 bars to full power (sprint and cingular). sucks.

Absolutely zero indoor reception (including main floor, upper floors, next to windows), not even enough to receive a text message. I frequently have to walk half a block from my building to get even a single bar of service. Standing outside doesn't help either.

Horrible reception. I get maybe one bar if lucky but even then it only stays for a few seconds. Calls are choppy and drops almost immediately. When people calls it goes straight to voicemail. Same experience with Cingular in the past with Motorola Razr

T-Mobile's coverage is far superior to the other expensive providers who over-charge everyone. Their is a huge difference between marketing perception and actual facts, and T-Mobile hands down beats ALL the competition. Now they can also gaurantee full coverage and free nationwide calling from ANY home or office for opnly $9.99 / month. Who else can do that???? Keep up the great work T-Mobile!

almost no reception in most of the areas in my apartment

No reception 1 / 2 of the time. Call only goes through if I stay close to the windows. If I talk for more than 10 minutes, I will definitely get a drop call.

poor service from T-Mobile vendor at 101 Univ Place..will never buy a T-Mobile product again, thanks to him; never explained bar issue, or possibility of no reception; closed early, closed on Saturday, etc.

At home on 6th floor I get perfect reception. However, on Columbia campus I often have no reception at all - even outdoors. I have to leave the campus to make or receive phone calls. Will be looking for different provider.

T-Mobile works reasonably well for me in midtown / uptown NYC. In Soho, where my wife gets excellent Verizon reception, I get none at all. I use the phone oftenin Europe where T-M is excellent.

Signal goes in and out in my apartment building, Calls drop frequently and callers can be difficult to hear. Worst during the day. Forget about talking to others on cell phones - you find yourself asking "what?" every other sentence. I like T-Mobile prices, low surcharges, and customer service, but I am considering switching to Verizon, despite the fact that it might cost - gulp - double what I pay. I've had Sprint, which is tempting price-wise, but customer service stinks and reception is spotty. AT&T gets mixed feedback from my friends.

unusable..no reception... t-mobile... should close up in new york city

phone is unusable.. every T-Mobile customer who cannot use their phone should get together and file a class action suit against this company for false advertising.

This is one big farce. I always thought that it was not T-MOBILE's fault that when I went into my building I would not get service. Then one day apparently the network shut down and I was roaming on Cingular's network... . It was really amazing. I mean that: I had FULL BARS in every spot of my apt, I couldn't believe it! This whole time I thought my walls were made of something that stopped the signal, but apparently its just that T-MOBILE IS WEAK in my building. I call up and they try to sign me up for hot spot at home - BUT I DONT GO OVER MY MINUTES. And they try to sell me a new phone, but i've done that already and it never works. WHAT REALLY GETS ME ANGRY is that when I dont get T-Mobile service, I feel like I Should be 'ROAMING' on Cingular's service SINCE it is available and T-Mobiles is not. BUT even when I do a 'MANUAL NETWORK SELECTION' like those poor innocent service representatives advice me to do, it says its registering with CINGULAR but hten goes back to TMOBILE. I figure, maybe I have service now, with no bars, I hope... .. and what do you know! CALL FAILED! AGAIN! CALL FAILED! I mean come on, the truth is you get what you pay for. If I had the money i'd be paying for Verizon and drop T-Mobile in a heartbeat. But i'm not a rich man. I just want honesty. Dont blame it on my phone. Don't blame it on my building. JUST BLAME IT ON YOUR WEAK TOWERS> Terrible. I'm going to cut out that second cup of coffee I have everyday and i'm going to switch to VERIZON. After I speak with a supervisor. CALL THEM UP. ASK THEM FOR A SUPERVISOR TELL THEM THAT THE SERVICE SUCKS HERE AND YOU SHOULD BE ROAMING

Two bars most of the time..get dropped calls often if I move around inside a building.

Phone works most of the time in my apartment but has no reception in my office, a couple of blocks downtown. Overall, service very spotty and unreliable.

I'm getting consistently excellent reception in this area. Never had a dropped call with T-Mobile. But I'm in Manhattan most of the time; it might be a different story in the boroughs.

Manydeadspots within Bellevue Hospital

T-mobile suck, have no signal or only one bar in room. Absolutely no signal in subway station. Have problem to receive phone calls from other carriers, they are directly put into voice mail...

Basically along 12th street from Bdwy to 5th T-Mobile has horrible service. No service in restaurants or apts and a hard time repicking up the network.

I have to stand near a window to get 1 bar of reception (4th floor apartment). Every time I enter a building in Manhattan, I lose my signal completely. Moral of the story: a) don't choose T-Mobile as your carrier, b) don't buy a Samsung e315. =) my 2 cents

reception is pretty poor, consistently drops my calls. shows good signal strength but drops. in other places, I have to be right by a window or outside to get any bars of service.

Totally blackout on the street in front of my apartment, much less inside even by the windows which faces the street!

Other than elevators and subway stations, I get great reception all over the city. My roommate has Cingular and can only get reception in 1 corner of our apartment

Below average to average with T-Mobile. I usually have to stand close to a window (facing east) and even then my calls are sometimes dropped. Absolutely no reception on ground floor.

T-Mobile sucks (or my Blackberry sucks... .)

Unacceptable coverage all around Grammercy Park. Rare to get a signal and then luck to get 1 bar.

Very happy with T-Mobile coverage here, get an excellent signal indoors and outdoors. Get dropped calls on very rare occasions.

While many people brag about the insane places they get 5 bars with Verizon or other carriers, my reception is very mediocre. I get one or two bars in my dorm (Wien) and barely any reception in Butler Library which makes having a cell phone relatively useless. Everywhere else is average, but it seems that among my friends verizoners are the most pleased with thier plan. Yea, my contract is out so I think ill switch to verizon.

OK reception on street but no reception in my apt. After several calls to 611 I got to "Level 2" and after 72 hour delay got to "Advance Tech" but still no reception in my apt 17 st and 3rd. Reason they gave: "No budget for new tower."

At home (downtown) I have full bar's, but in my office building, I most of the time get either 1 bar or none. Others who have Cingular or Verizon work will almost full bar's. As someone once told me, there is a reason T-Mobile service is cheaper than Cingular and Verizon. I know it now!

Reception is near perfect, downtown. Had an issue at my apartment in early Oct. 2006, called customer service and they had it resolved in under 24 hrs. Since switching to TMobile, I've found the voice quality is far superior to other major carriers... sounds like you are talking and listening on a land line.

We get no T-Mobile reception in the architecture building. Most of my classmates have switched to other carriers as the reason. Get on the ball T-Mobile! In this day in age, reception above ground really shouldn't be a n issue.

Great service outdoors most of the time, but sometimes you just get unlucky and get a lot of background noise in your calls. I noticed that it was around Broadway and 8th that this usually happened, so maybe it's just the surrounding stuff there. Just as great in buildings but beware of elevators! elevators = dropped calls.

Unbelievable that in Manhattan there is zero (none, nada, zilch) reception in the Verdesian in Battery Park City. I reported this to T-Mobile in April 2006 but as of October 2006 there is no change.

No reception 90% of the time. Pretty much no reception inside any building downtown.

my blackberry is working all around the world> except in my office

Don't get any reception at all in my entire apartment building. My roomates who have Cingular and Verizon get full bars. Sprint also works. TMobile also doesn't work in my office on 5th and 39th. I thought it was the phone but others with TMobile service don't get reception either. Am switching to Sprint, which also gets full service there.

Just swiched from Cincular to T-Mobile and the service is pretty much worthless. Even if the call goes thru, it always drops off. Seriously, its almost funny how much time one can invest in trying to understand why the service is so unreliabale on 72nd from York to FDR.

I have a hard time getting a signal. Many times there is no signal at all and I miss calls. Sometimes I have to go to the end of the block before I can get a good signal.

I have dropped calls and extremely poor reception all over the city. Phone sometimes does not ring and goes immediately to voicemail. When I do get through, voice quality is really bad and people complain that I sound as though I am a long way away in a tunnel. I cannot receive a signal in my office building and at home there is interference varies depending upon where I stand in the apartment.

I very often only get the voicemails and the phone never rings. Or it will talk me longer periods of time to make the call, because it keeps dropping it. I feel that T-Mobile's service on the Sidekicks, is absolutely horrible. I am sitting in Westchester at the moment, and a few moments ago I had full service and now for the pasted 10 minutes, I have had abosolutely no service.

Very poor. Cingular gives 4 Bars on the same phone in the same apartment.

I just move in my apt. it is on the first floor. my cellphone does not work inside my apt.

There are frequently dropped calls, calls that go straight to voicemail. I'm unhappy, and I'm wondering if its the phone, but from what I see on this board, it isn't.

Horrible reception between 5pm and 8pm. While the calls go through, the quality is extremely distorted and makes having a conversation near impossible.

No reception in basements around this area, Verizon works.

I work in a building in Manhatten next to the Loews theatre on 19th st. I sometimes, MAYBE get 1 bar, so my phone can ring, but if I try to pick it up I get nothing, but it still wastes my minutes.

Everything I've read about T-Mobile on this site is absolutely correct. I experience all the same issues. I thought it may be just my phone or just me. I get full reception, standing in the same spot, that drops to zero and then drops the call. Does T Mobile have weaker signal strength? I left Verizon for this crap, probably heading back to Verizon. Cool phones are a plus... but only if they work! Verizon needs better phones and T-Mobile needs better service, at least in the US. I got better reception in the niddle of an African safari, no kidding!

Inside Baruch Campus, T-Mobile and Cingular seem to have the worst service. Nextel and Verizon has the best service so far. Out side the area around 24th st and lexington area, there are many dead zones and that just makes T-Mobile worst. I just use my phone to show off now days around campus because I can't use it to call or receive people.

T-mobile's coverage is terrible. Outside is ok but once go inside of the bldg. I lose all reception. I used to have Verizon and I didn't have any problem. I should go back to Verizon, but T-mobile's package is much better than Verizon, and don't want to pay penalty for cancellation to T-Mobile 'cause poor reception is their problem, not mine.

My phone works pretty well by the windows in the front and back rooms, but not at all in between. I saw a similar comment here from someone on the same street. T Mobile keeps saying theyll send someone to investigate the problem but of course that never happens. Im considering switching to Verizon and telling T Mobile I refuse to pay their cancellation fee due to poor service. But Verizon's rates to text to Europe are so high...

In my office Reception next to nothing.

Despite the number of bars, reception more than 5 feet away from a window results in dropped calls and a horrible connection despite a clear line of sight 40 storeys up with no buildings surrounding me. Connection even while plastered to a window ain't that hot either.

My bedroom is right on Broadway on the 7th floor and the reception is awesome.

Very good reception at this location with no drop out or call cut-offs. Very pleased with T-Mobile service in general. According to your maps, South of 42nd is not so good, but just a few blocks north of there, it is excellent. My apartment faces south and I always have five bars of reception.

5 bars all the time. Excellent.

Great reception outdoors, no problems or dropouts at all. Indoor reception is almost non existent. If I stay in my room that has 2 windows facing the back and open area the reception is fine. As soon as I walk toward my living room and away from windows, the conversation starts to drop out and eventually cuts out.

inside building, no reception at all. coworkers have att / cing and vzw= perfectly fine. walking along the block surrounding building= no signal. search for signal shows signals..just not tmobile. have to walk 2 blocks away to get signal.

I have come to termes with the fact that cell phones are not land lines, but I do love that T mobile is working on there sevice. I know this because I have been a customer for 5 years now and I have seen and heard the differences. I know that with the addition of javascript on their sidekicks now it will be hard to compete with t mobile!

Great reception in my pre-war building. Maybe in part because I'm on the top floor. Or perhaps I'm getting irradiated from a nearby tower. It's good to be the king!

I get no reception in my building at all. I have to go at least ten feet beyond my front door before regaining it.

5 bars inside or out of the building. Perfect! Way to go T-mo

Have good reception on in my apartment facing wall street and also in the general area around the wall street area.

Very poor, and constantly getting worse.I have tried everything, and all I get is promises that they will improve soon as they are "working on the towers".

According to the cell tower map... there's a tower ON our building. While my phone indicates a decent signal (3 to 4 bars), the quality is awful. Reception is full of dropouts and garbled sound. Moving near a window does not help. St.level is OK. We have found that virtually all carriers have similar problems... thus indicating some type of signal interference or crowdedness.

Freaking A! Cannot get any incoming calls or dial out! Phone shows "Network busy" message. I reported problem to T-Mobile and the problem is still not fixed after 1 week. This is just outside the New York Stock Exchange, so called the Heart of the Financial Center of the world.

terrible, I am switching carriers

Decent in apartment. Sitting about 15 feet from window. Sound quality is fair, with occassioinal pops and cracks.

In my apartment (facing Isham St.) there is no reception whatsoever, unless I put my phone right up against the window. Outside it seems to work better, although calls still get dropped. Anybody know what has good service in this neighborhood? My contract is up and I am ready to try anything at this point!

Indoors - no reception at all - never has been! Outdoors - not bad but useless as with no network I don't even get my messages until I go outside.

Reception is excellent throughout the city, from uptown to downtown. With Sprint, reception was horrible and calls were frequently dropped, but after 2 years with T-Mobile I have yet to have a call dropped, other than underground or in elevators. Customer service could be better, and avoid their service centers like the plague, but unless you need to go there to pay your bill, you shouldn't ever have any complaints.

Paid $500 for state of the art phone, locked in for a year (or two? God I forget... ) and the thing doesn't work AT ALL in my office. Every other cell phone I've ever seen works fine in my office (it's made of glass) except the T-Mobile phones. Run, don't walk: run, somewhere else. I have a great phone, which (as noted elsewhere in comments) works better on deserted islands 5000 miles away from home, than it does in midtown Manhattan. Ridiculous. Somebody -- anybody -- should be fired. IT in NYC

Minimum 4 bars standing right in the front window and in the back garden. Everywhere else in the apt (first floor of 3 story brownstone) get 1, maybe two bars with constant break-up. Switched to Cingular, bought the same series phone (blackberry 7100) and the reception is exactly the same. Very poor. Otherwise the reception on both plans is great: outside, office buildings etc. Weird. I get better reception on a deserted beach in southern Yucatan than I do in my kitchen. Sister-in-law has Verizon which works fine in my apt. If only they had better phones.

terrible reception in any building. So frustrating. Reception is ok on the street (just ok).

great reception on the East side

Lose signal all the time - call quality is terrible.

Reception in my apartment is awful. The phone shows 3-4 reception bars and sometimes still my caller can't hear me. When I am completely still the reception changes from 4 bars to "out of service," as if the cell tower were being driven around the block in the back of a truck or something - I can think of no other explanation for this weirdness. I complained to T-Mobile numerous times and they don't seem to care - once the operator suggested turning the phone on and off daily to "re-establish the connection" to the tower. I verbally doubted the science behind that suggestion - and it didn't work anyway. Icing on the cake? I just got a postcard from T-Mobile braying about better reception in Northern Manhattan. I haven't seen it yet. I might suck up the "breach of contract" fee just so I no longer have to pay these people for a service I can't often use, esp since we can bring our numbers to other carriers.

I've had T-Mobile since they were Omnipoint and then Voicestream and have been mostly satisfied with the service. Only thing is that they still don't have coverage in a lot of places. I took my cell phone on vacation to VA in 2001 and discovered to my dismay that it was useless; they had no service there. Then I went to CA this past Dec and found out that even though TMobile had service out west, that I was roaming on Cingular's network, so I couldn't take full advantage of my minutes. I would recommend TMobile, but they need to expand their service so they can truly be a national plan. They also need a wider selection of phones and a better upgrade plan.

No service at all in office. Have to go out into the street where the service is intermitant.

On this block and in my building, I get perfect reception. When moving toward the inner part of the building, signal strength drops slightly, but I still retain the ability to make calls even inside the elevator.

In my apartment on the 2nd floor I have to be sitting beside one particular window facing south to get one bar if I'm lucky. Boyfriend has Sprint with no problems with reception. I have to add that I have a very small year old phone that I didn't buy through the carrier (unlocked), which might be contributing to the problem, but I get good reception elsewhere in the city.

I am very happy with the service. Excellent indoor and outdoor reception.

I am having the strangest problem. I intermittently get no signal at all on my 7100 in my office, while users of Blackberry 7230s get 3 or 4 bars. When I do occasionally have signal on the 7100 in this location, I get 3 or 4 bars! T-mobile has sent a replacement phone, which seemed to more consistently get signal for a while, but now repleats the same behavior. Popping my SIM in an n-gage QD yields full strength.

In my apartment it works fine. My girlfriend also had T-Mobile, but hers dropped calls all the time until she got a new phone. Her old one that didn't work well was the Sony Ericsson brick model.

I used to think T-mobile sucked, but now that I got the K700i, I realized it was my old phone. I get full reception indoors and outdoors. When I used to go into the subway and come out, my phone read "no network" until I turned the phone on and off. Now it catches the signal as I walk up the steps! My husband has a Nokia 7260 and his reception is great too. For T-Mobile, I can say the phone's reception makes a big difference.

Very good around 85% indoors.

Service is okay in the streets but weird thing is that service is never steady. It changes rapidly when i get into buildings. There is no service in buildings while my boyfriend with an AT&T phone has excellent service.

I have no problems with T-Mobile reception in New York City. I remember a few instances when all circuits were busy (and it made me mad), but I'm generally very happy with the minute / data plans and the phone. When I sit in my apartment and am well away from any windows, I get 2-3 bars. Even then there is no deterioration in voice quality.

It has sucked since I moved here. I've called T-Mobile several times, but the other end doesn't care. They will soon lose me as a customer. Shame on you wireless industry.

Reception is fine when I am outside but when I am in a building there is little to no reception.

T-Mobile sucks in this area. I've seen an AT&T GSM phone work here, where mine doesn't.

Reception is rarely the issue for me. The big issue is that calls come in and callers get a "number not working message." Or worse, the call goes straight to voicemail and never even displays (ever) on my phone. If I am lucky, I get a notice that there is a voicemail. Sometimes it is a 3 -5 day lag. T-Mobile tells me this is due to "tower failure" (long term at this point) and claims they are not responsible. They have refunded a portion of my monthly bill when I press them on it though. At least customer service is pleasant.

Worse reception ever. It's alright in some streets. However, when I'm in a building or basement, there is 1 bar to no reception.

I receive reasonable reception on the street and in my apartment. Sometimes the signal is better in one room than another, but overall, I have not had too much trouble receiving or making calls. At times, if I receive a call from someone who has an AT&T phone, the call gets dropped or the signal is bad, but I think that is on their side. Overall a 3 out of 5.

I've had T-Mobile for 1 year and reception is terrible in my apartment. I have to place the phone against the window, and even then I get one bar and constantly lose the connection.

Even though I have a few bars, no reception whatsoever for 1 1/2 weeks now. I live near this intersection unfortunately, so no reception in my apartment. If I walk down bway to 95th I can get a signal.

No probs indoors or outdoors. No reception at all in the subway (oh well, what can you expect?)

Phone says 2 bars, however, when calls are made, reception jumps to 0 and phone says call failed. No matter how many times I retry, calls don't go through. Calls come in, but once I answer the phone, I can't hear anything. T-Mobile sucks. I'll be switching as soon as my contract is up. If anyone reads with with good service in Inwood, please post. Thanks.

Using Tmobile for a couple of years and reception inside my apartment has recently turned horrible. I can't understand the person at the other end - it sounds choppy and echo-y. Also, walking outside on the north side of West 104th St gets the same bad reception, although the side side is fine - very strange.

I cannot make or receive calls when I am in my apartment. When I try, the few times the call goes thru, the audio is very poor. It is imposible to carry a conversation.

This is the highest natural point in Manhattan. There is often no T-Mobile reception here, inside or outside. Sometimes the signal is strong, however. One cannot count on T-Mobile in this location.

I was useing this network when roaming and I had good signal all the time.

it seems that if i get stuck in traffic between high rise buildings the signal strength goes down to nothing at all

Very strong signal indoors and outdoors. Full 5 bars on the phone.

At street level on the corner an average of 3 bars. On the 5th floor of the same corner full 5 bars of signal. (Note that prior Verizon phone shows 5 bars at street level, but had comparable call quality).

Outdoors I get 5 bars, indoors I get between 1 and 2. If I stand by the window I can get 4 bars. However, even with 1 bar this SE T630 phone has been able to make and receive calls. On evenings and weekends when a lot of people are in my neighborhood (SoHo), there is more clipping/compression during a call. I think T-Mobile needs another cell site in this area, but for most of the day it's pretty good. I switched from Verizon, which always gave me 5 bars of service on a Motorola Timeport, but the quality of the calls wasn't as clear as it is with the T630 with 4 or 5 bars. AT&T also shows up as an available network but it doesn't reach all the way inside like the T-Mobile signal does.

Works ok outdoors - since I give it a range of 2-4, I averaged it out to a "3". Sometimes phone doesn't ring at all and I just get a missed call message/ or voicemail. Don't expect any reception indoors - I give that "0". No reception in other locations also sucks. Before this I had Verizon Wireless and had 4-5 reception in NYC and coverage in 95% of my locations - their customer service just sucked.

The resception is pretty good with the V205 no compaints at all

Lately, I've been having very poor reception in my office. I was told that T-Mobile had a cell problem in the region. When are they going to fix it?

there's a tower at 36th Street, which can get powerful signal, even in basement, when getting 1-block fewer on Verizon note: there's no reception at Dining Hall in Grand Central Station

*Reception* is actually good. But almost every call gets dropped after less than a minute! This has been going on since before Thanksgiving - and customer service keeps repeating, "Yes, we have problems there, they will be fixed soon" and adding bonus minutes to my account - which I might as well donate back to them. Two thumbs down.

Good reception in my apt. Sometimes with outgoing calls (1 out of every 25 calls or so), the other person can't hear me, though I can hear them, so I have to call back and tell them I wasn't crank calling them.

What is going on in the ESB? There was no reception at all!

Had good service for a while after (then) VoiceStream got its network together, but fall and winter this year has been bad. T-Mobile has lots of spots in the neighborhood (East Village) where calls drop regularly and where its hard to place a call. Midtown is a problem too. Otherwise its been OK in the metro area. Going upstate its bad - only on the Interstates and a few towns.

I receive perfect reception in this area. I think I am one of few people who is satisfied with their carrier service.

No reception what so ever. Call customer service, indicated all tower around area are down. No service for over a month

When outdoors, unbelievably clear. When under less than 8 floors of buildings in my dorm, it works great except in some dead areas. For some reason works on every floor of the Empire State building but not many other buildings with a lot of ceilings above.

Terrible! No improvement in the past year.

Reception is poor in this area (at least inside a highrise). In addition reception will drop to 0 dropping calls and returning in the next second.

Decent reception most of the time.

lately i've been getting "network busy" and need to try a few times to try to make a phone call.

very good reception except in interior of the building. on 21st floor of a high rise office building.

generally good reception. recently, have had difficulty establishing a call - often takes 2-3 redials, network busy, etc.