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I rarely get reception in my home. If I am lucky enough to even get a call through it is certainly dropped. Very frustrating

Just switched to Cingular from Verizon. Had perfect reception all the time with Verizon, can't remember a single dropped call. Switched cause Cingular was a bit cheaper but haven't been impressed with it: Dropped calls, voice fluctuation, static. Frequently I have to repeat dial cause first calls don't seem to want to go through, I guess they want to make sure that I'm commited to making the call. Anyway, I'm still within my thirty days, I'm switchin back.

Terrible coverage, especially inside my apartment. Tons of dropped calls - makes me wonder about those dumb commercials (fewest drop calls?? not in my neighborhood)

I get more calls drop on Cingular than I get completed. They have sent me 7 phones now because they always tell me that their network is good and I must have a bad phone. I had 3 Motorola MPx220's, 3 Audiovox 5600's, and 1 HP iPAQ 6515. Service is lousy on all of them. Conversations are always garbled.

Although I regularly get 4 to 5 bars on the phone, once I dial and start talking, this will drop down to 2 or 3 bars. Frequently calls are dropped or broken up. Cingular customer service is very rude and unhelpful generally. One rep told my brother in law that although they have 1 / 3 of all their towers down for maintenance at any given time, their coverage is still 100%, which just isn't true in practice. Cingular's customer service feels that that if something is wrong it must be the customer's fault.

Flaky reception outside near buildings or houses. Although perfect when you're driving open roads. Extremely poor reception indoors, regardless of whether you're near a window or not. Missed and dropped calls, cutouts. Sometimes it will seem to work fine, but no overall dependability. The old TDMA network works much better however. I'm almost out of my contract, YESSS! ~

Very poor reception inside my home. Often it'll drop down to 0 bars. I never get over 3 bars inside (and this is a single story apartment with fairly thin walls). I also get a "Network Busy" message about 75% of the time after 9pm no matter where I am in Utah. Even on BYU campus the coverage is spotty. I can sometimes get 5 bars when I'm outside and away from any buildings, but I never get any reception at all if I'm inside a building and more than 10 feet from a window no matter what floor I'm on. Traveling on I-15, I usually get fairly good coverage, but if I go more than 10 miles off the freeway, it cuts out again.

I get very good reception throughout the American Fork / Orem / Provo area. I haven't hit any bad pockets yet. The receiption in Springville isn't as high (probably 2-3); but I still was able to use my phone without any problems. My older Nokia phone, however, didn't get a signal at all. My Kyocera Slider phone and Cricket plan does have digital roaming; so there are times that it does indicate that it is in roaming mode. So, when I am in bad pockets, it might be picking up from another company's tower? I've been very happy with my phone and with the wireless service.

Nextel reception is amazing. It works in the canyon, at Sundance you name. However, they charge way too much for service. If you go over your minutes they will charge you at least twice as much as AT&T and Verizon. If you need reception in tough to get places this is your company but if you think the great reception is cheap you are wrong. Overall, great reception, super expensive service.

I actually get better reception than my friend's Verizon in some locations. Driving through Provo canyon, my service doesn't go out at all, while my friend's Verizon goes in and out.