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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 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!

Horrible Internet wireless inside home. 1 bar at most and many dropped connections; speed is often less than dialup and even less than 10kbps. This is with top of the line PCMCIA card and an external antenna.

I get one bar sometimes and then no bars. Depends on time of day, could be related to the number of people using the tower. Using phone mostly in a basement office. As for the phone features, love it, comes with an FM radio and camera.