1-3 bars - seems to be a hole in Verizon's otherwise solid coverage.

Poor (one bar) to "no service" in Washington Square Mall and Target just up the hill. But I go to Taco Bell or the Chevron gas station in that same area, full signal. I'm thinking it's the hotel that is blocking the signals to Target and the Mall. I've been meaning to stop at the AT&T / Cingular kiosk at the mall and see what signal strength their phones show. I'm guessing they are where they are because it's the only sweet spot in the mall. The engineers need to look at this area and design better coverage. A lot of communication goes on in department stores and malls.

Extremely poor reception - both GSM and TDMA. Same problem here with all providers!

The entire area from SW Broadway by Council Crest all the to SW Vermont has very bad coverage, I'm guessing due to the tower locations on the hills. The Terwilliger curves area also has notoriously bad cell phone and radio reception, probably for the same reason.

Reception only 1 bar inside my house. If I go about 50 feet from my home, the reception might get to 2-3 bars.

In my house - maybe two bars. By the street - three at best. Disconnected more times than I can count.

The absolute worst reception is here at home. Elsewhere, it's pretty good.

Barely useable. Drops frequently.

I work downtown Portland on the top floor of a building along SW 6th Ave. Starting September 1st 2004, I get dropped calls every day receiving and sending calls from within the building where I work. Middle of conversation and suddenly call is dropped. Meter reads 3 bars; yet call is dropped. Other times, I get 1-2 bars then jumps to 4-5 bars then back to 0 bars (and "no reception" message) - all within the same minute. But if I go outside the building, reception is OK - 3-4 bars. A few dropped calls. The first 45-days, reception was great. No problems. No dropped calls at all. Indoors or outdoors. But starting September 1st 2004, something changed on AT&T Wireless' GSM. Brand new Motorola T721 phone in mid-July 2004. I have purchased a new battery (on AT&T Wireless Customer Care recommendation). Phone still drops calls from inside the office where I work. And I do charge phone overnight and then use battery until drained. Then, recharge overnight. (Normally, Fridays the battery is low; so Friday nights, I charge battery overnight and begin anew Saturday)

I've found that no matter what time of the day it is, when passing through the Sellwood neighborhood, I'd be lucky to retain a call. I'd have to say that 9 out of 10 calls would be dropped if not all of them. And ones not dropped, would become garbled. And this was with two bars on the reception meter. Yet I could send and receive calls from work which was an older building made of concrete. Go figure.

It is hard to accept the fact that my cell phones from 5 years ago work much better than my new one on AT&T GSM plan. My family is so fustrated that we have learned the art of understanding a conversation by only hearing every other word. Terrible....

Reception is really poor on the entire West Coast. And really annoying - even if you have 4 bars, you can't hear or be heard in the conversation. Best feature: Call forwarding. Need to change contract in November...

I like many people have been getting more insistent $50 credit offers to sign up for another year from AT&T (and of course they won't let you upgrade to a better calling plan without a new commitment either). My Nokia 8265 TDMA gets OK reception, which may go fuzzy in most of my 1/2 basement bedroom, but no problems in most places. I got an offer in the mail for $110 off a new phone (basically free after another $20 mail in rebate) and since I wanted to upgrade to free long distance, free nights & weekends, and 200 more minutes for the same monthly price thought it might be worth the 2 year commitment. Big mistake. This is day one and it's going back tomorrow. It's completely useless anywhere in my house, outside of my house or up the street. No signal at all inside, the phone may have up to 5 out of 7 strength outside and drop to 0 instantly. The service doesn't have the 'hi are you there, OK I can hear you again' during bad signal - it immediately hangs up on you. I attempted to make my first phone call, after redialing 10 times after being hung up on even after walking several blocks this phone is going back tomorrow. If they are phasing out TDMA I will be phasing out AT&T because GSM is unuseable here (and for now they better put my account back the way it was).

On the north side of Belmont, reception is almost non-existent. One the south side, it is average or worse.

Never have a problem with reception with Verizon. Works consistently well.

Coverage is spotty and unreliable. My service and phone are 5 days old, and they only work adequately about 50-60% of the time. I might be on the phone for 10 minutes, then dial up a second call and all of a sudden it's "Emergency Only." Even though I haven't moved physically, all of a sudden the service is out. I just got off the phone with tech support (after an hour's worth of waiting and talking) and the best they could do was apologize and say "I might get a call back."

In Salem, AT&T provided perfect coverage, but ever since I moved to Portland, nothing but dropped calls, poor signal strength and tons of frustration! My contract is up in less than a week and I will be switching to someone else.

Always around the top of the hill at 175th and Kemmer View has a dead zone - a good 1/2 mile to mile. Terrible reception at my job in Tualatin / Sherwood area, too. Good thing for 30 day satisfaction!

When I moved into my new apartment right down the street I didn't know that I would lose all of my reception. I went to the AT&T store and tried a new phone, still no reception. Every one comes to my house with Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Cingular with no reception problems at all. Also I work at Intel and receive a discount for AT&T coverage. Isn't ironic that I don't get reception in the parking lot of the Intel campus I work at?

Throughout north Portland, from I-5 to St. Johns, service is downright bad. Areas of particularly poor service include: anywhere on Greeley from the I-5 exit to Lombard; Lombard from Chetaqua(sp?) to Interstate; Portland Blvd. from Greely to Interstate; N. Ida area around Fred Meyer. AT&T should be ashamed of their negelect of North Portland.