Terrible reception in apartment, dropped calls constantly. Have to go on my balcony to keep a phone call going.

Just switched to Virgin. Had no reception inside house and a nblind spot on Wheile Ave. Virgin works fine from my basement office.

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.

Worst. It is a waste no reception no nothing

Very poor reception inside the office. Good reception outside though

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

I have one bar barely inside at present. It was better last week. Dropped calls today. I have a throw away Virgin Mobile that has 4 bars all the time inside. Verizon phone works well outside but inside lately it is a pain.

On Jan 27, 2007 I had posted the Sony Ericsson z520a review (1 out of 5)... Since my company switched me to Sprint (which has major offices about a mile away from my intersection) my cell phone reception has been 100% amazing -- even all across the the entire Reston, Fairfax, and WashingtonDC / Virginia / Maryland area... Good work, cellular provider Spr1nt!

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.

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.

No reception. Maybe a bit poor but basically none.

No reception inside my home. Different phones - all from Verizon have made no difference. The reception on my street just stinks! Can you hear me now Verizon? After several indifferent responses from Verizon call agents, At&T here I come!