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Very poor reception! Will say I have 3-4 bars, but will not let me make a call. Calls consistently drop or fail. Will get texts hours after they've been sent and wil never be notified of missed calls.

AT&T coverage has been bad for 1 1 / 2 years I've had it here. We've given up reporting the dropped and failed call attempts and use internet calls on the computer when we are at home in this neighborhood.

Very poor reception. Sometimes my phone shows 3 bars, sometimes says "Searching." Drops a lot of calls. I often use a VOIP app to call people using my wifi.

No Bars inside my house. drops on me everytime I make a call. Reception gets a tiny bit better if your outside but thats not saying much. Roomates have T-Mobile and they get good reception even in the basement!

I've had AT&T for 5 years and think they get great coverage provided you don't have a cheap phone. I unlocked a Samsung Memoir from T-Mobile so I could use it with AT&T and don't remember the last time I dropped a call. The call quality is amazing as well and it's as clear as a landline almost all the time. But once again, AT&T's quality is directly related to the phone you're using in my opinion.

Service here sucks, Upper cottonwood Heights. 90% dropped calls.

I get great reception here. once in a GREAT while a call is dropped. Some of the people I talk with on the phone say the reception is muffled. This could be their phone model though, because not all of the people I call say this happens. but all around... I have had no problems with At&t. and I travel extensively.

I'm not a big phone user so got the cheapest nationwide plan possible, planning to use the phone primarily for free long distance to talk with the folks once a month. But my calls get dropped every 15 minutes or so, regardless of closeness to interference sources, etc. Matter of fact they get dropped anywhere in town. Worked well in DC, though. But I don't live there.

In my one story house, I have 2-3 bars of service while I am on my 3G phone, and the call will just drop. It happens about 40% of the time. Cingular, you need to do something about this area right in South Salt Lake City!

Reception in buildings along this section is 1 maybe two bars. Signal just doesn't penetrate buildings

Cingular is the only one at my school to get the best reception,verizon is ok, and I know for a fact that one of my friends has t mobile with a Nokia 6101 and no service what so ever.

Cingular is absolutely HORRIFIC. The majority of the time I cant make a call because there ZERO coverage, if a can make a call I better hurry and talk fast cos it wont last! Im going to try Verizon

Cingular drops calls all the time. Phone acts more like a pager than a phone. I get messages but phone does not ring. Reception is lousy. I have problems all over the Salt Lake area and the Cingular network. I travel to AZ and WY and have the same problems. I am changing wireless carriers today. Cingular has the worst wireless and customer service.

Have no trouble here. Other colleagues must go outside the building to make a call, I have 4 to 5 bars inside and seldom drop a call. Have had this phone for about 3-4 years.

About half of all my calls are drop within the first minute. It would be very nice to have a tower in the area.

There is a dead spot in our area. What are the chances of Cingular adding a new cell phone tower somewhere around Calif. Ave. and Redwood Road?

Reception in my house is one bar at best. I am constantly being notified of new voice messages without the phone ever ringing. If I have an important call to make, I have to drive to a better location. I've tried different Nokia's, and originally was with AT&T. Nothing works. Friends and family with different services don't do much better.

Complete dead zone inside buildings, right in the center of Salt Lake metro area. Poor to no coverage outside. Situated between Interstate 15, Interstate 215, and Hwy. 201.

Just reading over these reviews, it seems that Cingular has been the blunt of a lot of criticism. I have had Cingular for over a year now and absolutely love it. I had Verizon before. I honesty haven't experienced any of these things that other people are saying about dropped calls etc... Cell reception is only 50% the provider. The other half is the phone itself. If you have a good phone, you should have no problems. I recommend Siemens / Benq for reception quality, although you'll have to get these phones from Ebay or someplace cause Cingular doesn't carry them I'm a big fan of Cingular. Don't be swayed by biased opinion.

Cingular sucks... plain and simple. They also keep lying to me on the phone as I have been billed several times for a contract I don't have. Bad service, bad reception, bad provider.

So many dropped calls. I rarely can complete a call from my home. GRRRR!

Cingular GSM is a total waste of money of junk in Utah. Single cylces and down constantly and often drops off all together. Switched to T-Mobile and service is great now. Have yet to find a dead spot with T-mobie. I would never recommend Cingular to even my worst enemy!

Phone calls drop 3-5 times in 10-15 minutes. Garbled.

Very poor reception (if at all), even though there is a tower fairly close. Customer service usually recommends upgrading the service to a more expensive plan. I'm not sure how that would help.

The Cingular GSM service works great, as long as you are not in UTAH! This is the worst service I have ever seen. The GSM service is not ready for use in the Salt Lake area. The signal constantly drops to no bars. The service gets worse when you enter a building, that often there is not service in buildings. Buy any service you can find besides Cingular GSM!!!!11

If I'm in a building I might as well grab a flashlight and start sending light signals. If I'm in my house in West Valley, or any where in that area, I keep a camp fire lit to send smoke signals. This service is LOUSEY!

Th s is ab ut ho a typi al co rsation o th Cingular (GS n two k sou ds. Unless y u hap n to be at Pinn cle Hig and apart nts - in w ich case you would 't ev n be able t m ke a call. You get the idea. AT&T and now Stinkular have been promising for over a year to improve their GSM service, but they haven't, and aren't going to. Generally, it works best if you write a note, tie it around your cell phone, and throw it in the direction of the intended recipient. This is why the smaller, lighter phones work better for Cingular. Avoid at all costs.

Calls at this address might get 1 bar consistently - it is right off I-215. If one turns in the wrong direction, the call drops into oblivion.

A very predictible dropout spot. It's as if you have to break the speed limit to avoid dropped calls! This is right above the Cottonwood Corp Center cluster of bldgs at 6400 S-I-215 exits.

I've had the razr for a few months now and have yet to drop a call. Cingular really is "raising the bar." I'm sick of hearing people complain about the service when they always get the cheap, plastic, free phones. I've had Verizon and Sprint and I choose Cingualr over them all.

Cingualr GSM is soooo baaaad. I get no reception in my house and have nothing but trouble all over the Salt Lake Valley. I have called customer service several times with zero luck. Cell phone companies should not be allowed to be in business if they can't provide the service. It is horrible. I have two years on the contract. What a waste of time and money. I would never get cingualr again.

cingular is the worst; it's back to voicestream for me. terrible reception quality... gsm Cingular service and quality are terrible

I have the nation plan with cingular. My sim card is older then other sim cards, so I never see "Cingular Extend" I always see who is giveing me service. When I first moved here June 2003 my phone would first goto AT&T then reliezed thier was no reception, and go over to T-Mobile tower. Since the merger talk happen, and the buy out been getting closer, the AT&T has went from no reception to 3 out of 5 reception.

Moved to SLC on a Cinglular Nation TDMA plan. Even though Cingular does not have direct support here I am receiving Extended Service (probably through AT&T.) It is a hit and miss. Most of the time I have no issues out and about Metro SLC. I am however in an Extended Network and sometimes I don't get incoming calls but rather just a voicemail alert. Reception is also a hit or miss depending on if you dial another TDMA network or not. Reception can be poor at times inside a building in the SLC airport area. Shadow / roaming zones up I-80 near Magna between SLC International in Toole and up I-15 in North Davis / South Weber. Poor / No coverage in the Weber Canyon recreational areas. Will be researching local alternatives once contract expires for a better consistant service.