Sprint is just bad. I cannot wait until I am done with the contract and am switching to Verizon.

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

Sprint give pretty good reception indoors and out. Occasional call drops. but tolderable. (Their customer service sucks.) Cingular (as of 2003) did not work indoors. (And their customer service is even worse.)

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!

The phone is unuseable inside the apartment.

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.

The cellphone reception varies dramatically, one minute all bars, the next minute dead. Call me paranoid, but I would think that with the UN and all the embassies nearby it's not Verizon's fault the signal is killed...

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.

Excellent service quality

Singal is good in this area(indoor / outdoor). But when I get into Penn. Station the signal is unpredictable.

Since the merger of Cingular and AT&T my calls drop consistently every minute / seconds and reception is lousy. I did not experience any if these problems with AT&T.

calls usually don't drop out, but quite often with Sprint I get voicemail from like, four hours earlier. Maybe that happens about once every few months. Sprint isn't as good as I hear Verizon is, and their phones are pretty wack, but they are really cheap.

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).

Verizon covers New York well. They also cover subway platforms which alone makes them worth while. The technology may be behind but they work hard to get things well covered in the city and you'll find a lot of people who actually live in the city, as opposed to commuters or newcomers, carry verizon.

Reception is better then it was with T mobile two years ago (changed service then, t mobile was horrible and bad customer service to boot). Better then bad is still not good, my family back in The Netherlands uses GSM there and you cannot hear the differece between landline or mobile, wether calling from the city or somewhere in the countryside on the other end of Europe!

Cingular's performance has gone down since they absorbed AT&T's network. I used to receive calls while in my elevator in my building! Now, 1 out of 4 calls I get a network error.

great reception on the East side

Some droped calls or no lines open