Poor reception to drop call in house, surprised, since Sprint / Nextel building is jsut down the road.

Nextel repeater in my office building. Always works

Inside Apt: Chances are you'll have enough signal for it to ring, but you probably will not be able to have a conversation. Outside Apt: You should be able to have a conversation, still not very good reception though!

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 wrote a review of my Cingular service at this location on Aug. 2, 2005. I finally quit trying to resolve the horrible reception problems with Cingular and switched to Verizon. I will pay an early termination fee to Cingular, but I was paying them a monthly fee for essentially no service. So, by terminating early, I'm cutting my losses. With Verizon, I opted for one of the most basic phones they offered (LG VX-4650). The difference between Verizon and Cingular is astounding. I get perfect reception in my apartment at St. Johns Wood. No failed or dropped calls. And Verizon's customer service has been excellent (took 10 minutes to port my Cingular number over to Verizon).

Great Coverage, better be since Nextel's headquarters is located here.

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.

Strong T-Mobile signal all around reston. I work in chantilly and have expeirienced only a couple deadspots while driving on 28 between the toll road and 50. No complaints about t-mobile's coverage. Only warning is to be careful of switching calling plans if you're using their auto-billing feature, their systems can get really messed up.

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.

Perfect reception in my room, very surprising.

Just moved to Reston area boardering Oakton. Outside of my house reception is 1 to 3 bars. In my basement, reception is 0 - 1.

We live in the Brass Lantern Cluster and often need to go outside to use AT&T Wireless - sometimes no signal at all. Same problem with TDMA phone. No reception in Giant Foods at N. Village. Otherwise, OK in Reston, Herndon, and Dulles.

If you have Nokia 6820 and travel a lot like I do you will know that this phone has the poorest reception ever no matter who is your carrier. At first I thought it's not working right only in the US. But traveled to (USA, Europe, and Middle East) and meet people with the same model and they all have the same issue. Nokia will not do anything about it!

For the most part, verizon is good around reston and herndon area (at least as far as I have gone). There are dead spots. At my house (north reston, 20194) the signal is weak inside and calls drop frequently. Very frustrating. Could be just my location or my phone, though.

I've never dropped a call or had a problem with reception other than while driving close to the CIA center in Langley. AT&T does well in downtown DC and most surrounding areas. There are a few week cell towers namely around Fort Bellvoir and the Metro. Customer Service is good, though I have had a few billing problems. For my first few months on my plan, no night or weekend minutes were counted as such, and they were deducted from my weekday minutes. Customer service has taken care of this well and offered credit for the inconvience. I've had my phone for 3 months and have yet to pay a bill.