Signal strenth is zero on the 4th floor of my apartment. Reception was also zero in my previous apartmetn in fairfax county... ... Goodbye ATT,,,Hello verizon

Signal comes and goes, and usually goes.

No issues. Has always worked fine for me

I get no reception inside my townhouse at all. Outdoors I get a max of 3 bars. I have lived with this for two years and will leave T-Mobile because of this in a few short weeks.

Sprint sucks. Drop out after drop out. Throughout Old Town Alexandria.

I have had my ohone for about 3 weeks and have the unlimited plan and pay about $130.00 a month for service since I do not use my house line. I currently moved to a new condo and have no service at al. I also have a T-Mobile phone that gets at least 1 bar but my Cingular is horrible on reception. Great phone but poor reception.

I moved from Michigan and haven't switched from Alltel because no matter where I go, my signal is perfect. I have been all over the DC Metro area and have had no problems. Unfortunately, Alltel is not available in the DC area, but great customer service doesn't make this a problem.My parents have Sprint and could barely use their phones at all when they came out for a visit because they had absolutely no signal. I don't hear good things about Verizon either. I really wish Alltel was located here so I didn't have to drive to Richmond to find an actual store. But if Alltel does move to the area, it is worth it to switch.

Good reception, very consistent. Good in general around DC and NoVA. Of course it drops in the Metro under ground (it's on Sprint's network, not Verizon's). Works well inside condo, even inside the elevator, excepting under ground of course. The phone itself sucks. Poor sound quality and painfully slow, even just to dial a contact number. Battery life is mediocre. We have two of these $20 flips. Originally we had the even cheaper, $10, Nokia Shorty bar. It was better in every respect, but it, um, kinda got left in a hotel room somewhere...

the house is a dead zone for the cell phone. cant get any reception in house, and not enough reception in yard to understand what the other person is saying. driving through the neighborhood is ok, reception is kind of spotty. waynewood is just a spotty area for cell reception, we've had problems with Sprint and AT&T in the past, and we have the same problems now with verizon. on more major roads (fort hunt, gw, rt1) reception is excellent, much better than with those other 2 providers. except in the mt vernon area of the gw pkwy. reception dies a little in there too.

For the section of Beulah between Charles Arrington Drive, crossing the Springfield / Franconia parkway (by the Healthplex), continuing to Steiway St. is a deadzone for AT&T / Cingular. In the Manchester Lakes shopping center you get spotting coverage outside of the buildings, but NO coverage within Bungalowes. My girlfriend has Verizon and she has full coverage in these area. AT&T claims, after several phone calls, that this area has perfect coverage (listed as excellent on their maps). I filed a technical issue with them regarding this, and they responded back within an hour saying the problem has been fixed. No it hasn't - my phone still looses service there as do everyone else I know who has AT&T.

Had lots of problems getting reception in this and surrounding areas. Even driving for a few miles didn't help.

worse AT&T, Cingular or whatever they wana change their name to next, worse reception worse customer service, I had Verizon for 11 years and I had to go Cingular coz we moved to a new office and cing the 1 phone worked some what, but not any where else I hope someone will sue them for that commercial erasing the bar and the fewest drop calls are the biggest B S. going back to Verizon

I have Verizon and have never had a problem.

Dependable good signal on T-Mobile. A relief after several years of disappointing ATT / Cingular / now ATT again service. ATT / Cingular service was good during the first 30 day period of the service contact, then became undependable.

My fiance and I moved into a townhouse in Old Town Alexandria in Nov 2006. We both have a Motorola V557 phone and absolutely no signal in our home. We've talked with customer support more than we talked to with family and here's the verdict. We've been told we have "the best reception" at our location, yet somehow, we're still unable to use our phones. After several rounds of exchanging our phones for new / refurbished phones of the same model, we still had no luck. So, the next step was to obtain new SIM cards, because somehow, both of ours were possibly flawed. Shockingly, that also did nothing to solve the problem. So, here we sit after 4 months of shoddy-to-no service with 2 useless cell phones and no real impending solution. Cingular may be good in some places, but if I have to watch one more "fewest dropped calls" commercial, I'll scream! Verizon is the ONLY way to go in the DC metro area as far as I'm concerned.

Switched from Nextel to the new Hybrid Nextel / Sprint phone. I cant decide which one is worse. Either no service in town or no service at home.

Although Nokia phone has always given better signal, as does Cingular (even in areas other services don't_)whole area is poor, signals dropping and gettin worse in last couple months! Are their too many people competing for a signal

Service is completly dead in or near Safeway. Minimal (1 or 2 bar) in Mount Vernon Square Apartments behind Safeway. Cingular service (with my phone and my wife's phone, anyway) blows throughout the Metro DC area.

Perfect reception with Verizon here!

Something must have changed in the past couple of months because I now get excellent connectivity in and around the house and in the general area. In the past I would have 1 bar or none at all. Even in the Belleview Safeway I can make / receive calls. Never could do that in the past.