Reception is very spotty in this area. Dropped calls are common occurrence.

Need a tower out here. Top of Hill. Nearest cell towers at a 2.5 mile distance, but towers are at much lower in elevation and blocked by terrain. New high-end subdivisions within 1 mile radius from deadspot, but still no attention from carriers.

I live in the Bull Mountain Meadows community and have had terrible reception on Verizon for years. I can barely even make a call from my house and I always have to call from right in front of my front window. Since there is a Cingular tower along Scholls Ferry Rd between Roy Rogers and Barrows (no more than 1 / 2 mile away from my house) I tested a Motorola RAZR V3 using the Cingular network and now I get 4-5 bars! And that is even inside my house! Sitting side-by-side, the Verizon Motorola T720 has 1 bar ANALOG while the Cingular Motorola RAZR V3 has 4 flags GSM. Talk quality on the Cingular RAZR was solid when walking through my entire house. Outside is, of course, even better. Cingular's coverage rocks in this neighborhood. I'm switching.

In general, I've found Sprint PCS reception to be good in the Portland area--partly due to the five-year-old phone, which I've found can pull a signal where the newer Motorolas and Samsungs have nothing--but I just moved and this area and E of 33rd into the 40s and just north of the Alameda ridge seems to be a dead zone. I'm down to one bar and have had lots of dropped calls for the first time. Problem is, the newer phones all seem to have worse reception, which means no signal here. Sprint PCS customer service seems to have gone DOWNHILL after the Nextel merger also, which I didn't at all expect. Verizon is the only carrier I haven't heard complained about in close-in PDX... is it really the only option to aviod dead zones?

Lousy, lousy, lousy. Dropped calls, garbage conversations, lame. T-Mobile response? "If you look at our coverage map... ", like I need to look at a map to find out I'm getting sucky coverage? "If I were you I'd buy a new phone." Oh, aren't you special. "Try power cycling." -- You know, turning your phone off an on. Got this response from 3 different people who all had access to the same history of my complaints.

I have lived in 2 different parts of Portland and I work in Beaverton. I love Sprint! I have only had maybe 5 dropped calls in 2 years. I have great reception pretty much where ever I go.

Verizon is best in Portland, hands-down. Best coverage and CDMA is more tolerant of low signal than others. I've carried on conversations in areas with ZERO bars. I have 1-2 bars in my house and work but rarely have a problem. Occasionally miss an incoming call. Dropouts and dropped calls are rare. Samsung A610 has impressive reception.. much better than my Motorola V60. Otherwise it sucks (buggy, slow).

T-mobile seems to provide spotty to average coverage in the area with terrible to zero coverage inside my house at this location. T-Mobile's own website and customer support claim "very good" coverage at my address, but real world experience is very different. Multiple complaints to T-Mobile have changed nothing. I am definately shopping around next time my contract expires.

Please subscribe to the cell tower at SW Barbur and SW Capitol Hwy, this is a Sprint PCS tower. This device has great service pretty much everywhere in the Marion, Clackamas, and Multnomah county areas, except for this house.

Almost always drops calls at my home. Has done this for the last 8 years, without improvement. The nearest tower is only about a mile away, but on the other side of the hill we're on.

The coverage in Sellwood is horrible and seems to be getting worse. On my street I have maybe two bars. I go in my yard the signal constantaly drops to one bar. Speaking of dropping - so many calls dropped that it's now the norm vs. the exception. This neighborhood is somewhat on a hill so one would think reception would be good. We liked the idea of going with a gsm phone so we could keep it if we switched carriers and use it out of the country. After reading the other posts on here about att / cingular, and since the two gsm carriers share their towers, we're going to try Verizon. It really can't be worse than what we have currently. To sum it all up - STAY AWAY FROM GSM SERVICE IN THE SELLWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD.

I agree. Since Cingular and ATT merged, reception went to hell. Can't even use my phone at my office. I have dual mode with GSM but can't even get VM messages unless I manually switch back to TDMA. Also lousy in 97232. Calls dropped and people trying to call me back don't even ring through. I get VM from people TRYING to call when the phone hasn't even rung.

Drops out around curves. Also have some dead areas along I-84.

Flaky reception in or around a 20 block radius up to about the 50th block.

Horrible voice quality and large volume of dropped calls in my office building.

Almost nothing with Sprint when I first moved in. Changed to Verizon mainly to join the rest of the family, and reception is better, but still missed and dropped calls within and around the house. Been with Verizon for 1 year and no improvement or reduction in quality of signal. Just about good enough to live without a land line. Dead zone up the street means I can never maintain a conversation all the way home.

Reception has gotten worse at my house in the past two years. I cannot get more than 2 bars around my house unless I go out into my yard, and then maybe I'll get 3. Coverage seems to be best when I'm driving down I-5.

1st time ever I have zero coverage

Terrible service; worse since the Cingular takeover. Frequently have to make several attempts to make outgoing calls before it will go through. Frequently my calls are disconnected in the middle of a conversation. A more recent phenomenon is that in the middle of a call the signal will drop out, then I will hear repeated clicks, and 5 to 10 seconds later the call will come back in. This sometimes happens multiple times in a call. I called AT&T to complain and the woman said, as if she could care less, "There's nothing we can do about it. Maybe you should get a new phone." But I replaced this phone three times in the past year (never buy NEC phones). I'm seriously considering spending $175 to get out of my contract. I'm increasingly frustrated by the day. I know several people who have Verizon and they love it and never have problems.

Calls get dropped ALL the time. This just started happening two months ago, which was 1 yr into a 2yr contract. Our phones are not the problem, nor is reception. They are simply oversubscribing their network. Often after a call is dropped I get "No Service" the first few times I try to redial the call. Same thing happens to my wife all the time. Here is the cell service business model: 1) Load up thousands of customers on 2 year contracts and then stop expanding your network. 2) Laugh all the way to the bank at customers who were stupid enough to trust you.