Works great... except in the basement of my house. can send and recieve texts but calls are spotty. As for the throughout the neighborhood, never had a problem and glad I switched a few years back.

Absolutely no reception in the basement and very poor reception in the rest of the house. Usually only 1 bar if I am lucky.

Can get no service in or outside of my townhouse. using this website I see Cingular has 4 antennas very close to my house I will be switching. My sister has Sprint and has the same problems

It is so bad I am switched to SPRINT and I now have no problems... Nextel is terrible in the Metro DC area...

0-1 bars on my street. Reception goes to 4 bars on Rt 28 and stays good into Reston, but this neighborhood is very hard on Nextel. Since the Sprint merger I get about 3x as many dropped calls when I can get a signal at all.

I used to love Cingular so I gladly upgraded my older phone to the new GSM phone about a year ago. The call quality has improved but I drop one out of three calls I make on it and coverage is spotty, it will show that you have 4 bars in an area, but as soon as you try to make a call it drops to 2 bars. In my opinion the problem is GSM. If you have an old clunky phone but get good reception, KEEP IT.

Have 3+ bars in this general area. In my own basement even have good reception.

Even in my townhouse basement I get 3 bars usually. Outside it's a solid 4.

When I first moved here a year ago, there was ZERO reception. Now I have 5 bars and am at -80dBm. That's about as good as you're really gonna get! Arlington, Va also recently added some towers as I had the same problem there but don't now. Kudo's to T-Mobile!

I am a student at westfield Hs and the sinnal inside the scool is poor to none. I loose signal around the cox farms area and the virginia run area varies.. my neihbors house has 4 bars... I have 1