Excellent coverage throughout L.E.S. and East Village. I've heard phone models have as much to do with coverage as provider.

almost no reception in most of the areas in my apartment

Just got this phone and I have to bring it back. I work ten feet from a window and DO NOT get service. It seems ok outside but indoors the service gets real spotty. Dont know if its the phone itself or Verizon doing something with there coverage. I had a Samsung before and would get good service indoors. The service was getting a little weak and opted to get a new phone with the 100 dollar credit they offered. BAD MOVE.

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.

I have really spotty service. Calls get dropped all the time, calls go in and out, and I sometimes have to stay put in one spot in my apartment to ensure steady service, and that's not even reliable. I'm looking for a new provider right now.

Whenever I'm anywhere other than in the dorms, I have great reception, but if I'm anywhere in my dorms, especially in my room, my signal goes from 5 bars to 0 and drops the call. There is no reason to it, I can be sitting in the same place and not move an inch, and it just loses the signal. I actually have better reception in the elevator than anywhere else in the dorms! However, any other place that I've been, Verizon has excellent service. Which is why it's so frustrating not having any in my place of residence!

For the better part of 3 years, I haven't had good reception on 14th St. in the meatpacking district. Everyone I know who has AT&T in this area complains of the same problem.

Works sometimes outside but never in my building. Have a nice view of an AT&T ad saying they have the fewest drop calls of any network though.

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.

verizon is amazing. and I always have reception in my building, which is very high and by the river.

i get no reception at all in my apartment... .had perfect reception on Verizon and my T-Mobile friends have reception as well...

Is anyone out there experiencing the same? No PDA service reception in and around 85 Broad St.area but fine everywhere else?

Bar goes to ZERO. Failed calls 3 out of 4 attempts for the last couple of months. You figure you'd have perfect reception since you're in direct line of sight of the Empire State Building and I'm sure every carrier has broadcast capability from midtown.

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.

Reception in my house is TERRIBLE. Be very cautious about getting Sprint if you live in this location - near the intersection of 212th and 108th St. I moved here after having been with Sprint for 6 months, and have been unable to talk in my house ever since. I know Verizon has excellent coverage in this location - not sure about others.

Terrible reception in the building. I am on a high floor and barely get reception.

Signal has dropped from Average to NO Signal within the last three months. Our Nokia, Sony-Ericcson and Motorola phones are unusable inside our apartment. Not much better in front of the building.

In the last three months, reception from AT&T / Cingular has gone from Average to NONE. We also have a Motorola 168 and an old Nokia with external antenna. Nothing on any of them. Phones are unusable within our apartment, though they will ring on incoming calls. Aswering only gives dead air. AT&T should have stayed in the cable-TV business they'd bought. They've become a horrible company, in providing service, and to deal with.

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.

Very good reception - but as mentioned above, wish Verizon had a better choice of phones!