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I think someone (perhaps Tmobile) just put up a tower this weekend. I went from virtually no reception at my house to now 'nearly' perfect! I moved to Bend two years ago and had Verizon. I wanted to switch as I always had delays on my vmail and generally poor reception. I spoke to alot of people before I changed. It appears there is no great solution or clear cut winner in Central Oregon. Bummer. One thing I've learned recently is that a no cost national roaming plan with T-Mobile (or perhaps any carrier) isn't what one would think. On my phone I can search for networks and switch from T-Mobile to USA890, which is US Cellular. However, on my travels to Hood River, I can't switch my network because T-Mobile doesn't have a roaming contract. My point being is unless there is a contract there is no signal (despite a tower being active). No roaming isn't what you'd think.

barely any reception in the house, cuts in and out all over, generally miserable. I'd switch to US Cellular everyone raves about but CDMA is a dying technology and my GSM P990 is a phenomenal phone (reception and sound quality in LA, Portland, or Hong Kong is great) I do NOT want to give up.

Seems like more often than not, when I am out mt. biking or on the water, my friends have coverage and I do not. Also T-Mobile customer service has become worse and worse over the years. I had a bill dispute with them and they just ignored my comments and said I needed to pay or get sent to a collections agency.

everyone is saying T-Mobile sucks and unicel is great, but if you have T-Mobile and lose coverage your phone will use a unicel tower. but don't get T-Mobile togo, it gets way less reception

6 or 7 (out of 7) bars everywhere. great reception, don't know what you guys are talking about.

Gets good reception here, The phone dies all the time and quickly after charging? Looking for new phone and Plan...

Most cell carriers are terrible in Central Oregon. T-moble has been just ok. Can't pick up inside buildings. Can't get coverage over the pass when driving. But their family plans are better than Unicel. Wish we could get Cingular, we think its the best. We need them to come to this area and we need more cell towers.

Fairly crappy service all around. Either no service or maybe 2 bars for a couple of seconds in my house. It gets the phone to ring, but answering it just drops the call. Want to switch to Unicel or presure T-Mobile to put a tower on top of my house if they don't want to loose a customer. Go figure anyways with a T-Mobile call center in Redmond.

We've had T-Mobile for over a year. Horrible, horrible, horrible reception. Dropped calls. Phones won't ring but go straight to voice mail. Go in a building - no reception. Can't call from inside the house, and when you go outside of the house it may dial but gets dropped. I would honestly say that only 5% of the time that we try to call mobile to mobile while in Bend do our calls ever get through. And for some reason, most of the time my phone says 'emergency only' instead of t-mobile, and I think that has something to do with reception. T-Mobile is a waste of time and money, and very frustrating.

T- Mobile has terrible coverage, in NE bend. Also does not get reception in large buildings. I am switching providers asap.