I have to say that I never was a fan of t mobile beacuse of the past 10 plus years ago but I have to give thenm credit, they have good srevice in this area, a lot of my coworkers have t mobile and they are all happy with it so I gave it a shot and I am verry pleased,

Virgin mobile which uses Sprint service works the best out of all other carriers,,,

for what I pay for, Verizon better get a perfect rating! :) have lived on si for a month now and haven't had a problem with my reception at all here. loose service on the ferry at one spot but thats all.

I'm.thinking of buying an iPhone 3G S and was wondering how the reception would be in my area

i have T-Mobile and the signal is perfect. I have also had virgin mobile and I know people with Sprint all have great signal in this area

I just got the phone today and I'm getting a great signal in my second floor apartment. I get 6 out of 6 bars when close to windows. Call quality is perfect! I'm totally satisfied with the service in this area. :-)

Amazingly I have Good or Perfect Reception with Verizon wireless in my Area. I had AT&T service before and their service was horrible in my area,i mean no reception at all. I mean it worked perfect in the city, but nothing is more important than service in my own house to me. And just a reminder to all of those who don't know this, the phone does have a lot to do with reception as well. like they say and this is with any cell phone company: you get what you pay for.

Cingular and AT&T, they share networks; you just need a 2 mode cellular (using 850 MHz and 1,900 MHz bands).

Hardly any problem with the Sprint Service anywhere

i get amazing service in eltingville.. I love verizon

Perfect reception at all times

Reception is good and I very rarely have problems finding service or with dropped calls. The only place I routinely experience dropped calls is in the middle of the Hudson River while on the Staten Island ferry, but I imagine that's probably how it is with all of the other cell phone carriers as well.

Using the e815, I get EVDO only in the second floor but get 1xRTT on the ground floor. Outside, I get EVDO full bars.

Can make and receive calls with no issues

For people who lives in this area, nothing works other than AT&T GSM. I tried Sprint, Verizon, Cingular, T-mobile, nothign works. As for AT&T, the reception varies from phone to phone. My nokia 3200 has 4/5 bar reception, yet my Seimens C56 only have 1/5 bar.

most of the time very good only when in basement or on the other side of the island reception is bad

Its average only because of my Wifi.. without that I get poor reception in the house.

would the iphone have good reception in woodvale ave in staten island new york

They talk about 4g I barely get 3g in my home here on SI, spend alot of time in edison nj, same service its ehh, and never in the buildings, barely get calls in the buildings. In manhattan great tbh but so is every thing else almost switch to Sprint same thing hopefulyl AT&T can do a better job or ill get verizon

Outside the house service is only passable. Inside the house service is static and drops out frequently. Unusable as a landline replacement.