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Sheeps Meadow in Central Park seems to be a big dead zone for AT&T. My friend and I were trying with a blackberry 8300 and an iphone 3g. Can't get any calls through. Takes forever to get blackberry messenger or texts through. Forget about webpages.
Had no problems for long time. Roommate still has no trouble with Verizon reception. But ever since a building was built behind mine - 2 stories above mine - I can't carry on a conversation because it cuts out every other word even though I constantly have 4 / 5 bars. They gave me a free SIM replace and upgraded the software in my Razr - still the same problem. I must say the service people were great, even though the reception isn't.
ok this is the real deal about recption on rossevelt island for the most part. Verizon is nuber 1 then Sprint then AT&T witch i'm using as of now. donnt get t-mobl trash! iphone rocks.. mids
There is an AT&T store right there too, and just two buildings in there's almost never any reception. Also, Bowery, 6th and 7th Ave between Houston and 14th St.make up a whole swath of poor-to-no reception. Its like a huge chunk of lower Manhattan is just off the grid.
Cingular was decent but then I moved to Church St.and ATT bought out Cingular, then problems started: Dropped calls, reception just fades even if I'm not moving, many calls go right to voice mail, or I can't hear the call, I just get every other word. It's very frustrating, I'm on the 30th floor with wide open views, even to the cell tower just 5 blocks away.
I was there on a Beautiful Saturday, April 18th around 450 PM and I was trying to call my best friend..the bars were there for 3G..but nothing when I was dialing..after 5 tries..i manually switched to the older Edge network..and after 6 more tries..on the sixth try..the reception had a lot of static and was garbled..i thought it wa sthe park..but the funny thing..when got to the middle of Sheep Meadow..i got a signal!..but by that time..an hour later it was too late..as the party already left the park
I have the first edition iPhone and have had virtually no problems with my phone wherever I may have gone. I've even gotten random pings of reception in the subway! Very strong signal and data transfers, even though the unit was purchased over a year and a half ago (and subsequently dropped many, many times). I've had typical call drops in elevators, but that's pretty much it.
