T-mobile is horrible I pay a little over $100 for an unlimited plan on one phone. Takes on average 15 mins to open a web site, days to send a picture. My phone spends more hours during a day searching for signal. I get NO service outside of wichita falls, only get decent service in large cities. Hate T-Mobile ready for my contract to ne over.

Been with AT&T for several years with excellent signal and reception. Very old, but not cheap phone, and still works wonders. Voice, text, never missed a call, and voice quality is excellent. Yes, more expensive, but when you want to count on your phone, you get what you pay for! I have tried Virgin Mobil, Sprint, and T-Mobile at the same location. All of these are a joke this far out of town compared to AT&T. AT&T maps do not even show good signal coverage for me and still works great!

Had to take the phone back. Terrible dependability, esp inside at my house. Missed calls while driving and even in the mall, the bars would fluctuate wildly. Switched to the Gravity2 and had the same problem, even after changing out SimCard. Now am back to my old 490 and am glad it at least works reliably. What is up with the 3G and the "smart phone" technology? My old dinosaur out performs both of the newer phones.

I recently switched from T-Mobile because of their service to the south west part of town is margional to non-existent. My new provider, SprintPCS, seems thus far to not only provide reliable service but also Sprint provides much better call quality than my previous provider. Calls to my phone here at home actually ring through and that is something new for me. The Sanyo SCP-3811, even though it is a basic one, works well. We need to remember that phones work only as good as the network on which it operates.

Lost calls and / or cannot complete a conversation, only hearing every third word.

Cannot complete a call without it being dropped or reception so bad you cannot complete a conversation.

Reception is so bad that you cannot hear enough to understand what the call is about. About all you can do is go to a landline phone and call the person back.

No problems here. Service is great.

Sprint sucks in so many ways. I am testing Verizon right now, and it works great! I am about to switch tomorrow to Verizon. Buy one Get one free on BlackBerrys and the Droid Eris.

Been with At&t / Cingular for 16 years. Loved AT&T in AZ but here, in Wichita Falls the reception is below average at best. AT&T is the only major carrier with no 3G service here. And, they won't tell you when its coming. I'm out of contract so, at the end of December I'm firing them and will go with either T Mobile or Sprint (I hate Sprint). Verizon is too expensive for similar plans. I've been disapointed with At&t, however, their customer service at the retail stores is excellant. I just wish their commercials were factual about 3G. Verizon is killing them with the map thing. Come on AT&T your customers deserve 3G.

I consistently get strong signals from USCC's towers all around town. I even get one or two bars inside buildings where you generally get zilch from the GSM providers. If you drive around town, theirs are the gigantic 200 foot tall 4-legged ones that look like oil derricks, like the one at Barnet and Seymour Hwy. and the one near Lake Wichita dam. They don't use the monopole towers like other carriers.

This Samsung is like all the others. Almost perfect in reception and the best phone I've ever had. A huge improvement over the Verizon / Lg phone I used to have. Never once heard of anyone having a problem with a Samsung, unless if its the users fault. I used to work for a cell phone company and this is the best phone, and service, Im extremely satisfied.

I am very impressed with the Sprint network. Its so much better than Verizon and other companies inside the buildings. All my friends loose their signal inside the buildings except me. Very very good, I highly recommend!

new cingular-gsm- 2 bars if lucky and near a window. although this is a little better than last year. still pretty poor. they need a tower in the msu area

I was a former AT&T customer and switched to Cingular a month ago. I have better reception than before. In my home office, I formerly had 1 bar and had to stand next to a window to talk with a person on the phone. With Cingular Orange, I have 4-5 bars and I no longer have to leave my chair to talk to people( although I stillfind myself pacing around the house on a call out of habit).

The closest cell tower in the center of city is only 21 meters above ground level. Then all other towers are positioned all around outer radius of city with the next closet being about miles 2-3 away which is a 154 Meters above ground level. The 21M tower seems a very short.

Its a huge area and the problem needs to be addressed and taken care of badly. Please Cingular put up some GSM towers in this area. Its been a couple of years since I first experienced this high frequenency of bad reception and it was after I switched from a TDMA to a GSM. Inside and outside of my last two residences I'll have 3 bars before making a call, as soon as I push talk it drops down to 1 bar. I contantly have trouble with both sides of the line being unable to hear a complete sentence ; its like, "hey, wh ___n __? u d___ _lr___ __is ev____g?" It also does a very good job at disconnecting my calls because the cell's bar count was ZERO. I'll must say it's very troublesome, annoying and inconvienent. IF THIS SITE NOTIFIES CINGULAR OF THESE POSTS, THEN PLEASE MAKE SURE THEY ESPECIALLY GET THIS ONE SO THEY CAN FINALLY FIX IT! THANK YOU.

I live near Burkburnett Rd, by Sheppard AFB. I get full bars all around my house and the base. Reception is excellent. Inside my work building downtown, I get maybe 2-3 bars, but still works good. I don't travel much into rural areas, so I can't comment on rural coverage. T-Mobile coverage has been very good in Wichita Falls,TX. Only a few minor deadspots here and there.

I can actually see the towers from my house and never am able to get more than three bars. Incoming callers cannot hear well, and phone is ALWAYS cutting out. I have to maintain a land line for them to call back on. Kind of defeats the purpose of this phone! I'll never buy a Samsung again.

We "upgraded" from our AT&T wireless TDMA plan to the Cingular GSM plan to get a new phone and better coverage, and more minutes. The result has been very disappointing. Depending on where we are in the house, we get 2 bars to no coverage at all.