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...

Horrible... Nextel has been having the same issue for months.

I can't wait until my contract is up because I am definitely leaving cingular. The reception pretty much everywhere is horrible. I live in this area and I consistently get 1 bar on my phone here. It is v difficult to make a phone call or receive one.

Sometimes reception dips to 4 bars but mostly it stays at 5. Much better reception here since I switched to a GSM phone. No dropped calls.

Despite 5 bars, in my apartment there are spots where I lose connection and drop calls (19th floor). In elevator or street no problems.

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.

Basement apartment. Other than a couple of "hotspots", no reception while in apartment. OK on the street.

Great reception from the seventh floor and on the street.

Even in the basement of my appartment building, I get reasonable receptoin. Very solid everywhere in NYC. Get good reception all over the US and Canada--Miami, Lauderdale, Tampa, St. Augustine, all over Long Island, Dobbs Ferry, NY, Stamford CT, Nova Scotia, LA, San Diego, Frisco, Chicago, St. Louis. Only place I encountered a hole was Mystic, CT (odd). Very good service.

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

I can see a cell phone antennae on top of a building (7 floors tall) from my apartment that are directed right at my apt. I think this is my cell phone tower and explains my excellent reception. The building is on 84ths street about midway between Broadway and Amsterdam. I imagine that if you were on the other side of my building (tall - 23 floors) you would not get any reception from this tower and might explain the poor reception from other users in the area.

Ancient Sprint CDMA phone gets excellent reception in my pre-war apartment as well as outside on the street.

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.

As with much of the upper west side, Cingular coverage is a problem, so the signal is either lost or fluctuates wildly with any movement. Perhaps they will add some locations or buy space from Verizon. I am not switching because the Cingular coverage in Florida is much better than Verizon's.

Reception is always good with one exception - when exiting the W. 4th St. subway, I often have to walk a block or two before it switches over from analog roam to the Sprint network. Reception in my 4th fl. apartment is perfect.

Apartment on 34th floor is never better than 3 bars, and often there is no signal at all. Sometimes a call can be started with a useable signal, and then the signal goes to zero and the call is dropped while in progress. Worse at high traffic times.

Very erratic coverage inside our apartment building. Movement of 1 meter (3 feet) in any direction would change the reception from 3 bars to none. Occasionally, the reception would plummet even while standing still. In other areas (e.g., Columbia University area) the reception was good, even inside the buildings.

Usually works great, very occasional call drops.

Since Cingular took over AT&T reception has deteriorated rapidly. Calls usually get connected but constantly break up.