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We have never had a dropped call on our Cingular phone. Not one. bars have been fairly high, however we never need to check because we always connect. We originally had Southwestern Bell Wireless, then were forced to the Cingular, and we have had great sucess. Now that Cingular is owned by a local company, there should be some testing of new services in the area too.
Reception throughout campus is extremely poor and no signal is picked up in many locations / buildings... Expect to try to stick your head to the closest window to try and get a few bars worth of signal.
Sidekick II with T-Mobile worked fine, no dropped calls. Sidekick equipment failed after 1 1 / 2 yr then I got the new t mobile SDA, horrible reception on this phone. By the way, I should mention that the keys of the SDA are tiny and navigation, messaging, and email is horrible because of these keys. As far as features... it has it all, bluetooth, EDGE, wifi, very powerful little phone, horrible keypad! Doesn't matter anyway, it is going back to T-Mobile as I am in my two week period. BTW, never sign a two year contract, it is a trap!
I live approximately 1 / 2 mile from the tall tower in O.P. Schnabel park, where the cells are located. I get pretty good reception inside my house, but sometimes I go from 5 bars to one bar for no apparent reason, and I start to lose my call and have to switch to my landline. I would really expect better reception this close to the tower. Perhaps Cingular isn't serviced by this tower, or the cells get full, and interference results.
Sometimes shows 4-5 bars but will not connect. Afternoons at 4pm a terrible static begins on my end - other person cannot even hear me. The worst thing is that I often do not get notices of voicemail until 1-5 days later. I sometimes find that my phone was 'working' at the time message was left but network sent caller staight to mail anyway. No reception in any of the lower levels of the medical center. Verizon rules in the hospitals - even can make and receive calls from the basements.
Reception is generally good except when entering my subdivision (Encino Ranch). The call does not drop; but, it is impossible to understand the other party on the line. Cingular coverage on Hwy. 281 between Bitters and 1604 is bad.
I usually get 3-5 bars average at the intersection of Huebner and Evers. So far pretty good signals and not dropped calls. Highly recommended over T-Mobile.
