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Keeps dropping calls on first floor of house. Second floor has better reception. ATT coverage map rates the area on border of Best to Good.

Very poor reception in the house. A lot of dropped calls and missed calls. Slightly better standing by the door, but still lose a lot of calls even when walking outside. Probably will be switching to Verizon; it's useless here.

Very poor reception inside the office. Good reception outside though

Inside our townhouse we get 1-2 bars, always dropped calls. Less than 1 / 4 mile away, perfect reception. A New Cingular tower is less than 0.5 mile away. The dead zone may be due to factors other than carrier.

We usually get 1 bar inside and have to go to the south facing window to get better (maybe 2 bars) reception. I've had instances where the signal drops to zero on Colts Neck at the dip in the road just before the entrance to the RCC at Hunters Woods Plaza. Many dropped calls on a daily commute on the beltway and the daily dropped call westbound on the toll road by Wolf Trap. Thinking of switching to Verizon.

We have a first floor unit in a brick and steel 4-story condo. Almost no reception in the middle of the unit, some reception close to the windows. 5 bars outside of the unit. This has been the same from back when it was Cingular Blue.

Horrible reception inside home, fair outside reception (back porch or front door). Calls come in and out upstairs on our top floor. Still, tons of dropped calls, no matter where we stand (in / out / up / down). Downstairs, we have to leave our cell-phones near front or back doors / window-sills to get incoming calls. Wish we had a service-discount based on how poor our reception is. Now I'm searching for an affordable cell-phone antenna booster for my home.

There's a Blue tower (AT&T) at South Lakes HS and receptio nis very good.

Absolutely no reception in Great Falls / West Sterling area. Terrible. No Service or occasional 1 bar and gauranteed dropped call. Cingular refused to do anything. I had to cancel my contract.

Cingular has no service at all inside Giant market with either a Samsung or Motorla phone, and we live just a few blocks away. You have to get very close to the door to call. We're switching to Verizon ASAP.

I live about 1 / 2 mile from the intersection in Boston Ridge. Outdoor reception is ok to excellent. Indoor reception is sometimes 3-4 bars out of 5 and other times 2 bars and calls dropped. Zero bars in the basement (walk out).

Extremely poor reception with almost 100% of calls being dropped within a very short period of time (less than 30 seconds). Cingular sent out a new phone, but this did not help. They've switched out the SIM chip and "reprogrammed" the phone on their end. They suggested that I power down the phone once a day for 30 seconds. This did not work. I've stepped down to a plan with fewer minutes, but I've still managed to build up thousands of rollover minutes because I don't use the phone anymore. It is totally useless (and so are all those rollover minutes). Cingular's last suggestion was for me to trade up to a different phone, but this would require me to extend my contract to two years. I absolutely refuse to give the company any more money on blind faith.

In my house, the dropped are calls increasing. Voice quality poor. Sometimes "No Service". I never had this problem with AT&T. I get no satisfaction from Cingular Customer Service.