Reception in downtown area great. works in elevators and inside buildings. Cingular / ATT's 850mhz has better ability to go thru walls than the other higher cellular frequencies much the same as bass goes thru walls better than treble from your neighbor's stereo.

I live in a second floor unit and I only get 1-2 bars indoors next to window when not using phone. In order to speak on the phone I have to open a door or window to get a signal. I've had someone using a Motorola phone with AT&T service in my apartment and it worked fine in the living room with the patio door closed.

3rd floor apartment, no reception inside. Thinking of switching carriers.

Varies from no reception to 4 bars (and back) without being moved in 26th Floor window office.

Have static on received calls 25% of the time... ready to switch to Verizon...

Couldnt be any more happier with Verizon. A lot better then Sprint and AT&T.

I always get 5 bars in and around oaklawn, Uptown, downtown. Including Central Expressway and Tollway. Only bad areas in metroplex are some parts of Highland Park and all of Hillcrest Ave. from Lovers Lane to LBJ 635.

Sometimes I get dropped calls, otherwise seems to work well.

Apartment on the first floor - phone is spotty indoors even near the window (bars fluctuate and chop up your conversation) Reception is better outside.

We great reception with T-Mobile in this area, even in the basement garage of our building. 5 bars all the time. I have found a few dead spots in other parts of town, however.

very good reception around my are. but in some places I'll be lucky to get 2 bars

inside reception stinks. has across 3 phones from tmobile. Hope 3g would help. can't get 3g unless I go outside. ATT no probs. Tmobile needs to invest in some infrastructure or some agreements.

I drive from Park Cities to Addison everyday to and from work. I always have 4 full bars, and my data connection stays on 100% of the time. I NEVER have had a dropped call, not even once since I joined verison 5 years ago. I use my phone about 2 hours a day, and still have yet to see my phone say "1X" or have less than 3 bars. I have unlimited data plan, so I always have my messenger program running, and it never logs out, or misses any messages. this is the best phone / service I have ever had.

Very poor reception, I always get dropped call. It has been like this for many years. Nothing to do with the phone, tried it with many phones on T-Mobile. Also service has gotten noticeably worse in the last few months in general the clarity is not good.

Highland Park I have witnessed always tends to have lousy cell service both for my Nokia and on my previously owned nextel, however I have people telling me they get great service so, it may just be my phone or my luck...

The signal always gets weaker and weaker going east until you reach Central (US75), then it cuts out. Same thing on University heading west towards Central. At least there are lots of radio towers there to explain it.

McCommas and McMillan This will mirror many of the previous comments about poor service in this area for almost all carriers, but Cingular / AT&T in particular. When I moved to here in 2005 my brother had lived here a while already and had warned me about the spotty coverage, but I didn't understand the scope if it until I saw it for myself... .I haven't had cell coverage this poor -anywhere- since 1998 or before. Bars jump up and down, but they are rarely an accurate indicator anyway. Coverage does seem to be worst at peak usage times, which would validate that the towers and their amplification capability are extremely overloaded. When that happens, every single connection to that tower suffers. Even when calls are connected, they never get better than 'grainy', full of pops and dropped words. Reception is so much clearer at my office (Arlington has better coverage than uptown!), I had to set up separate volume profiles on my phone for home and work. Looking at the tower map on this site, it's clear that there's a large area here with almost no (registered(towers). Bordered by Highland Park on the W, loop 12 on the N, White Rock Lake (or further) on the E, and Lemmon on the S. I don't know if it's zoning or what, but nobody seems to be in any hurry to cover this area better.

good reception inside condo

I work in a basement of a building and always loos complete reception with Nextel.

Never had any problems inside my townhouse or outside.