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.

Perfect reception unless you're in the basement.

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

My reception has generally been good with Cingular throughout the city, though it takes a while to get reception after I get off the train

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... .)

Dropped calls all the time. Cingular sucks... or is it the phone... who knows !

Very good reception in my apartment - friends with T-Mobile or Cingular don't get any reception at all in my apartment.

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

Only one spot in my apartment gets reception 3 bars, but as soon as I try to make a phone call, reception goes back to 1 or no bars. I feel like the phone is lying to me.

Reception is good inside and out, reception will occasionally break-up inside, but rarely.

Verizon service works as it should. I get full reception all over the city. Sometimes even in the subway! My only complaint is their pricey data plan.

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

Cingular sucks! My husband and I are both on the plan and it's sometimes impossible to call each other. When I get off the 6 train on 86th, it takes up to 15 minutes to get reception. In my apartment service is never reliable. We had to get a land line because our cell phones rarely work. When we had AT&T we never had any problems. To get new phones we signed a 2 year contract when it changed to Cingular. We just waiting out the contract then we're switching to Verizon.

Most places in Manhattan the reception is great. In my apartment, mediocre at best. Enough to still make calls most of the time, but sometimes the service will just drop out for an hour for no discernable reason.

Just moved to a new apartment and the Cingular reception is terrible. Have to stand next to the window to get even a couple of bars. Going to switch.

On the street reception is ok, in my apartment I need to hang out the window to get a decent signal. Just upgraded to the 680 and reception is moderately better. I called Cingular and they admit their signal is "weak" in this area. They had no information for me about if and when new towers are going up.

I often get out of the train and try to call my wife. I have to wait until I've walked almost to 145th and Convent (or 141st and Convent if I walk down St. Nicholas) to get any reception bars. It must be that the cell towers don't reach into that valley there, but it's annoying.

I almost never get reception inside (work, home or anywhere else). I generally have bars outside although voice quality is always terrible with frequent holes and lots of static and interference. Nice customer support people though.