Most of the time we get great reception. We never have dropped calls in town.

Uses extended network, constantly searching for signal, wears down the battery exceptionally fast, sometimes text messages fail several times in a row and calls don't get through. I can't hear you now verizon!

Generally very good coverage. There are a few weak spots in town, like any other carrier, but works fine inside buildings, even in actual bank vaults in basements. There are a few problem areas, but they are high interference areas for all carriers due to high local interference.

I get reasonable bars in the city itself. On base, I get about 3 if outside, and I currently have 3 in my room (ground floor dorm). Going inside certain buildings (most of them) renders the phone useless. Not sure if it's a faraday cage effect of the building or bad cell coverage in general. I also loose signal going 5 miles south of enid to a neighboring small town.

Never really had much problems with reception. Some of the phones were crap but... that just depends on the phone u get. Had service for 8 yrs and always paid my bill. My kids went over on minutes by $170 and I was off wk due to major surgery - T-Mobile refused to work with me and cut off the phones. They wanted pymt in 2 wks! I wasn't physically able to go back to work for another 2 wks and then wait for 1st ck. Called several times and none of them would work with me. In the past they have always been helpful but... . getting thru to a live person is like pulling teeth and very time consuming! Unbelievable, will never go back!

On the extended network here. 90% of the time, I can make and receive calls fine. Sometimes a voicemail will show up a few hours after someone called me. I do have problems dialing out a few times a day. Text messages have been working OK.

Though some parts of town have good reception, overall coverage in town is very poor. Lots of dropped calls, failed calls and broken "I can't hear you" calls. Oh and heaven forbid you should go into a building or house. If that happens you might as well turn the phone off to save some battery cuz chances are you wont be able to use it.

worst carrier of them all. dropped call 8 times out of 10. horrible customer service. never go with them.

The reason why the dropped calls in that area is because of the electrical transmission lines running close to the railroad tracks. It clears up great after that going west or east. The problem now 5-16-2007, almost all outgoing calls are down with Cingular, statewide. The only outgoing calls that can be made are to other Cingular customers.

I am lucky if I get two bars at my house. I have dropped calls fairly often as well.