I have to give Verizon Wireless credit for their technological achievement: In two years I cannot remember even a single dropped call. This is literally the only positive aspect I can think of. The expensive service plans are a joke. After all the taxes and such I can't get below a $50 cellphone bill each month and I hardly use my phone. The constant emails and texts pushing a new contract / phone upgrade are obnoxious. I also had inexcusable issues with their psychotic collection partner Varolii. I screwed up and was about a week late on a bill. It was just an honest mistake - I had the money and payed when I realized what happened. Rather than simply having a living person from Verizon call me on my phone (which they provide the service for) these freaks start some massive phone message campaign leaving voicemail messages with everyone I know with bizarre phone messages that I had been disregarding as some sort of scam to get personal information for the purposes of identity theft. They even called my niece who lives several states away and I don't even talk too often. Who knows HOW they got these numbers. It was really creepy. I couldn't trust their messages because googling the caller ID number yielded extremely suspicious results. And when I contacted Verizon to investigate the matter they played dumb with me through many phone calls and emails before FINALLY admitting that this was a being done on their behalf. The important thing to understand is that these whacked out phone messages continued for WEEKS after I payed my bill. It took a full-blown investigation on my part consisting of several phone calls to their security department and a dozen emails to pry out this name of Verizon's partner "Varolii" so I could call Varolii directly and threaten legal action before they finally stopped (since Verizon was incompetant and unwilling / unable to make their friends at Varolii stop). The whole episode was simply too much for me. I just want a basic phone, not a nightmare. Bye Bye Verizon, I hope it was worth it. Many of the people I saw from googling this number were getting the psycho message campaign said they were NEVER behind on a payment. So when they send a witch hunt after you don't say I didn't warn you.

Make sure you look at your bill every month! I was being billed for an extra phone line for 15 months, and Verizon refunded 6 month and told me it was my falt for not catching it sooner. I was also told that if I pursued the matter an more they would not refund me anything, and they would disconnect my service billing me a disconnect fee. As someone who works for a company that prides it's self on customer service, I have to say Verizon has the WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE EVER!

Great Reception on this phone and several others also.

I have to walk five minutes away from my apartment to make phone calls. My reception has been getting steadily worse for the last year.

The best reception is upstairs in a certain spot in my bedroom. Only has about 1-2 bars. No reception in the rest of the house. Many dropped calls and text messages. Outdoors I have about 2 bars.

The actual spot I'm talking about is at 22nd and Wilson (close to Murray and Allen). I moved to a new home, and realized that I get horrible reception in my house (zero bars in kitchen and back yard, one bar elsewhere) with T-Mobile - meanwhile, a friend of mine (Cingular) had 4-5 bars in the same spots. Gotta give up my beautiful relationship with Tmobile, and switch to Cingular.

No reception inside house, poor reception outside.

Home - Murray and Allen Work - SE Portland Route - via 26, or via Garden Home Daily drops call 2-4 times in route. A couple are predictable (tower related?) but the others are not. Cingular says "they are working on it"... and have said that for almost 2 years now. I predict it will magically get resolved in 2 / 07 when my contract is up. I would also like to have CSRs who a) know what they are talking about b) are honest with me In fairness it does work in some places others have reported trouble - Haggens, Washington Square. The only shopping areas I know I can never get service are two Albertsons stores (the one on Barnes and the one on Beaverton-Hillsdale West Slope??) Side Note - phone is garbage, avoid at all costs

Occasiona dropped calls, overal good reception inside and outdoors.

Drop calls everytime I cross this intersection with Verizon, doesn't matter which phone. And I can not get reception at the new Haggen grocery store either. Hoping that Cingular works here???