I have carried Verizon for 6 years and have not had any dropped calls! this is foreign to me. I had to comment after reading all of these posts.

Signal fades with every single call. I only get a signal if I stand next to my window. Basically no strong signals, whatsoever, if I am in a building. The towers just went down 2 days ago.

Lots of dropped calls through out the PDX Metro area. Lots of garbled and lost direct connect calls also.

Really horrible reception in this area. My phone works fine all over the city except here, which is where I live.. Verizon rep claims they don't see my phone dropping any calls, but I lose and / or drop 10-15 a day in this neighborhood. VMs arrive late with no missed call alert, same with TMs. DO NOT GET VERIZON IF YOU ARE LIVING / WORKING IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD.

Sometimes I get a call, but the conversation is spotty and garbled and often drops. I'm at the top of the sylvan hill, right next door to the Sunset Highway, on West Slope Drive. DEAD SPOT!

I had Sprint PCS and couldn't get reception in my apartment. I would drop calls 75% of the time and if I moved the phone more than 3 inches during a call I was hitting the redail. With Sprint PCS there was a clear dead zone at the stoplight at Tewilleger and 10. With Verizon Wireless I have found no deadzones yet nor dropped any calls in SW, NE or SE Portland. I am very pleased with the service.

I have no trouble with my reception. My family is on Verizon, with the exception of my brother on Sprint, and they like their service as well. Prior to Cingular I had T-Mobile and they gave new meaning to the term "poor service". As soon as I hit 217 the coverage dropped to zero. That figure also applies for their customer service. If you're in the Portland-metro area, especially the West Hills, your best bet for coverage and sevice is Cingular, Verizon or Sprint.

Quad-band phone, better reception than my old AT&T Nokia analog phone, but still not great. This is an AT&T phone before the Cingular purchase, and I've heard Cingular phones have better reception. If I ever get a Cingular phone I'll post those results.

My phone works great with 5 bars most of the time, until I walk into my house. It immediately goes down to 1 (maybe 2 bars). I drop every phone conversation at least once during the call. I have to stand in place while talking on the phone in my home, sometimes even making sure I don't make any sudden moves with my head, otherwise, the phone call is dropped. I'm switching to another service.

Has anyone checked out the tower map here? Can that be right? There's not more than 2 towers west of I-5 on the peninsular crest. No wonder I hate using the cell phone at home.

Constantly dropping calls. I go from 4 bars, turn my head, and loose the call. It is rediculaous out here. Thinking of doing the unthinkable. Getting a landline...

Stay away from Cingular if you are used to good call quality. You get what you pay for...

Been with AT&T forever and have now had it with them. After the 2 year agreement that I was sold was misrepresented even after reiterating with the agent what the bottom line was (yes my fault for not taking the time to read details). Basically told "tough- S***" by them afterwards. Reception at home is a crap shoot (works okay if I go in front of the house). Friends with other services come by and have no problems. Currently looking at Verizon and T-Mobile.

My two year old Sanyo 4900 works fantastic close to the freeways, but when I go deeper into NE, it gets worse. I have no problem when I'm upstairs inside, but occasionally drop calls on the main floor, and don't get them at all in the garage.

Verizon is great in Pdx but have you tried driving or Amtrak to Seattle? It goes roaming or dead from Longview to Centralia (about 2 hours). When I am onthe train, I see other people using T-Mobile and other services making calls without problems. Verizon should fix this since this is a major "commute" in the region.

Solid reception just about everywhere we have tried in the city, but Verizon is just too expensive so may have to switch when contract ends

Coverage is great in the rose city area. Been with ATT and now Cingular. Coverage for the most part has been great.

Since we were forced to migrate from At&T to Cingular our service has been horrible. It sounds like I've been getting the same run around from the Cingular reps as many other folks. They are in the process of sending me new phones but I'm almost sure that that will not remedy the problem. Lately our service has gotten so bad that I can only dial out about 10% of the time, and even then almost every single call is dropped. If these new phones don't fix the problem I'm going to demand to be released from my contract since they are not rendering the service that I am being charged for.

Works well here -- no complaints.

My wife and I BOTH have the MORTOROLA V180. (by the way, STAY AWAY FROM THIS PHONE). The reception is poor just about everywhere we go. It's obviously the V180 since we both have the same service and phone, yet our other two roommates have the cheap Nokia phones the come with the plan for free. Those Nokias always work great! Don't be tempted to get a flip phone unless you spend a lot of money (and time researching it)!