Used to live off South Lamar and Panther, then moved to Barton Skyway on the Mopac side, now coverage is alot better. 5 bars always. Capital of Texas highway going west can be spotty, but overall, good service. Some garble around Dittmar and Manchaca, but easier to point out the 2 or 3 problems, but no one reallly complains about calls withe me

Very spotty coverage with poor audio quality. The phone doesn't drop very many calls, but the audio quality is horrible. I will be switching soon. In the process of seeing who people think provides the best coverage in the Austin area... is it Verizon?

Good reception, great phone. Had the phone and service for 4 months, no complaints.

At work (Arboretum) and around town I generally get good reception. At home (Sunset Valley) I get poor reception indoors (it doesn't drop the call, it just drops every third word) and fair reception if I step outside (useable but still dropping an occasional word).

I am really happy with my service, I use an Edge card in my laptop and can be on the network 100% of the time with my reception never dropping past 1 / 2 way, and I am all over town and go to and from San Marcos occasionally. There are a couple of places where calls will drop for just a moment, which is normal because of the geography of this area.

Ok AT&T / CINGULAR, I know you guys can figure this out, but going down the hill between elizabeth and live oak st. on s. congress either drops or loses alot of signal strength. This is right on the most major street in the middle of town, come on.

Calls drop while as soon as you pass the post office on manchaca past william cannon till after Dittmar crossing toward slaughter..

I just switched from Sprint to Cingular and the coverage is MUCH worse. It's not nearly as bad for me as some others have described, but clearly nowhere near what Sprint was. With Sprint, (on an older Samsung A460) I would only drop calls in a few areas around town (like north 360 around 2222). But with Cingular I just get a lot of breakup in the convos. Not really any drops but just some robotic modulation from hell. Im REALLY hoping this improves once they combine the Cingular and ATT towers around the end of the year (fingers crossed)

i spend all my time either on the UT campus, in northwest austin where my apartment is, or some where between. out doors I never have a problem, although I used to with my Samsung e105. the only place I ever had problems with zero signal while others had a signal (sprint / verizon users) was the second floor of the UGL building on campus, and my dining room in my apartment. when I switched phones fromt he Samsung e105 to my ngage, the quality of signal and signal strength went way up, and I never lose service, drop a call, and can finish calls without screaming "call me back" hoping the other person got the message. the quality of the antenna seems to range greatly from phone to phone, and I must have been working at 2 extremes of the spectrum.

Called TMobile about this and they admit that the reception here is not all that great. They have logged an issue with the Engineering dept and hope that in the future they will have a tower installed here.

All this weekend, ATT network has apparently been completely down. No matter where I go, I have no coverage. Unbelievable.

Calls always gets dropped when driving past the AMD building and the metal pedestrian overpass. But after my old phone quit, Sprint sent me a new one (same model) and it doesn't drop the call anymore, so I guess it might be a phone thing.

Cuts me off constantly. My first very bad experience with Sprint reception, after living in multiple cities. Didn't expect that in Austin, the techie city. Come on, Sprint!

VERY poor service indoors, barely acceptable outdoors. Looks like no one gets good service on T-Mobile, or anyone else, here.

Have been with AT&T TDMA since April 2000, still using our 5+ year old Nokia's, and have always gotten great reception. Can only remember a handful of exceptions due to being in some very remote areas in the extreme outlying areas in our 4 or 5 county area. I'm talking the middle of nowhere. Was an old GTE Mobilnet customer, there service was abysmal, and the switch to AT&T was the best cell phone move I ever made. Want to update our plan and go to some newer phones, apparently none of which use TDMA, so would be stuck with GSM or CDMA. But after reading this board, am wondering if I should just stick it out with TDMA until the digital service around here gets better. Am self-employed and use the phone for business, so can't afford to be dropping calls or having no signal. From what I gather, Cingular must have the worst service. Don't see many Verizon complaints here, so am wondering if they're coverage is that much better than the others. Any Verizon subscribers out there like to chime in?

Was with AT&T and switched to Cingular GSM. It is wretched. Not only in my home area, but all around Austin. My friends did the same with same phone and all report lousy results. Calls drop the minute you hit Hudson Bend on 620 coming from the dam and it's hit or miss from there on. Don't bother placing a call on Southwest Pkwy. unless you plan to pull over. I've lost signal with a direct line-of-sight to a tower. My office reception at Braker and 183 is worthless as well.

Just like many of the other people posting to this site I sit in one place and watch the bars go from zero to 5. The reception comes and goes even when I go outside. I usually end up holding most of my conversations on the front porch (less than ideal). I had been with AT&T for a number of years and had relatively good reception. That all changed with the switch to Cingular. I'm unhappy with the phone, the (lack of) customer service and the reception. Within a month of buying this phone the earpiece quite working. A few weeks later, the connection for the battery charger became difficult to use. It's a piece of junk

Calls are dropped when driving through Hyde Park between 45th and 51st St.and on the upper deck of Hyde Park. Coverage appears again shortly after. But calls are ALWAYS dropped right there.

I agree with the other comments that the AT&T switch to Cingular has resulted in a drop in coverage. Frankly, though, I had it with AT&T GSM too. GSM coverage in Austin is horrible. When I travel to other cities, I rarely get dropped calls or poor connections. In Austin it is a 3-4 times daily occurrence to have a dropped call. Cingular store people deny they hear complaints and blame it on the fact that Westlake Hills won't allow more towers. But it isn't a Westlake issue - calls are dropped all over town. Does anyone have a phone that at least minimizes the problem?

Phone calls will be dropped almost anywhere in Austin, even on some of the major streets. One reason for dropped calls is because of poor signal strength in some areas. Even when signal strength shows to be strong, calls can be lost because of system overload. The reason I think this is because I can have a great signal strength and still lose a call. This seems to happen often during times when most people would be talking on the their phones, so this why I believe that their system can handle only so many callers talking at the same time. During hours of day when few people should be on their phone, service seems to be fine. So if you only talk late at night and / or early in the morning, and you avoid their poor signal strength areas, Sprint is perfect for you.