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Very poor reception throughout the area where I live. I can basically only call from my room near the window, and that's spotty at best. In other parts of Charlottesville reception is slightly better, but not good, so I will definitely be making a switch when I can.

I am very disappointed with AT&T. I bought a very nice phone with all kinds of apps etc but half the time I cannot get reception around Charlottesville. When I travel I get great reception but at home (south edge of town) it is spotty. Around town reception is very poor most of the time. Some places great, some places poor, some places zero. This is not that big of a town. Why can't we get reception everywhere in these few square miles. I used to have US Cell and reception was much better. Not happy with AT&T.

Could not get any reception indoors. I rarely even got one bar. The only way I could make a call and not have it dropped was to stand outside away from any trees.

My phone drops almost every call I make. It is not just my phone because my husband has AT&T and his also does this and my old phone did this as well. I am unable to send pictures or receive pics or multimedia, as well.

In my office which is right on the mall and has many windows I have reception about half of the time and consistently drop calls and have calls go straight to voicemail. Verizon customers have not experienced reception trouble in my office, though I have not had a Verizon phone to test reception over a longer period of time.

No signal or very little signal. Floats back and forth from no service to searching to 1 bar.

AT&T in Downtown Charlottesville is unusable. I have been a customer of ACS analog on the Kenai Peninsula, cheapo no-name SIM cards in Europe, and Claro and Movistar in Nicaragua and Peru; no experience was worse than what I'm going through now, Summer 2010. My phone just doesn't work at all for days at a time. This has been a problem for weeks. Every time I reach customer support they say a technician will be at the tower at 5am to fix everything. Load of crap. F that s. DO NOT come to Cville without Verizon.

Located in Berkeley subdivision near Four Seasons. Excellent 4 - 5 bars inside the house.

ATT does not work on Garth Rd.past owensville Rd.and starts getting spotty once west of Foxfield. Someone that has Alltel has great coverage out here.

I get no reception at all in any number of locations. The folks at AT&T hav been attentive, but nothing ever gets resolved. They look at their maps and assure me I should be getting the calls I never get. They say things will improve sometime in 2009, but in the meantime I'm virtually without a cell phone.

Even if I get 2 to 3 bars, I usually don't get dropped calls and get all of my calls, etc. The only times I don't is when I'm in a big auditorium or basements (aka during class so I don't need to use it anyways). Sure when I was in new dorms, my service was craptacular at best, but now that I'm out in Dillard (and when I'm in Bice as well), I have great service! (minus elevators)

AT&T sucks! they are terrible and they will rip you off! They have the highest charges of all the carriers and their customer service is never available. Do not use AT&T

Live in Barracks West, just past Georgetown off Barracks Rd and getting a usable signal in my apartment is virtually impossible--I can't get reception downstairs at all and am typically on one bar (or less) upstairs. In general, I've found Cingular's coverage in Charlottesville to be spotty at best. Reception on major thoroughfares is decent for the most part, but once you leave them cross your fingers and hope for the best.

Cingular acquired all of SunCom's VA customer base with the Cingular / AT&T merger. They claim that they are looking into improving Charlottesville coverage, but no specific promises. Coverage around Cville proper is spotty with few areas of perfect signal. In many areas, you can't get a usable signal indoors. Even in areas of apparent average signal, dropped calls are common. Rt 250 just west of the bypass (e.g. Boars Head) has very poor if any signal. Don't know about Ivy / Crozet. Rt 29 north of town is pretty reliable through the developed area, and the Hollymead / Forrest Lakes area has average signal. Rt 29 south to Lynchburg has spotty coverage.