My wife and I suffer from almost non-existant coverage inside our townhouse. I even have bought the Verizon Network Extender (Have a mini-cell tower inside your home... that was the pitch line) and still get crappy reception... The phone will have three bars but when someone starts talking... it is a garbled mess. We even replaced our phones thinking the phone was the issue. Does anyone have any advise?

I don't know what these other AT&T users are complaining about; I've always had service wherever I go throughout the woodbridge, lakeridge, or entire nva area basically. On the rare occassion that I do have one bar is when I'm at a croweded area indoors ie the mall. Even then my calls / texts / internet usage are pristine. AT&T rocks.

My house is a complete dead zone - 0 bars, "no service" message, all the time. But service is perfect in the front yard. Can't wait for Apple to come out with an iPhone for Verizon! I'm in Woodbridge, Marumsco Village, a few hundred feet off 95, about 2 miles south of the 123 exit, where the water tower used to be.

All of the Sprint cellphones get 2,3and4 bars in orangewood drive

Phone reception is poor in the lower 2 floors of my townhome. 1 to 2 bars max! Phone calls always drop as I enter my garage. I also get limited phone reception on the Pentagon reservation. I see may other people talking and texting on their Verizon and AT&T phones with no problem. I've been with Sprint since 97, but I'm really considering a switch...

Excellent service. Full 3G even when indoors.

Can't make calls from my house without being cut off again and again. It's a little better outside, but they still drop.

Though I get decent 3-5 elsewhere, my nearest tower is to my south at the County Building. Seems that its also the Police tower as well, so maybe thats why I get 0-2 at home outside and 0-1 inside.

Amazingly, I have had the same carrier going on 5 years now. I used to live over on Dale Boulevard / Minnieville Rd.in Dale City and I would only get 1 or 2 bars inside my house. If I stepped outside I would be lucky to get 3 or 4 bars. It was never anything major, so I didn't cancel my service. I moved over to Woodbridge along Rt. 1 behind Marumsco Plaza about 3 years ago and was surprised that my signal strength actually got better, even after upgrading phones about 2 times over the past few years. Indoors I usually get 5 bars, have perfect call reception, no dropped calls, and no delays with sending or receiving texts, IM's or emails. I do find that when I walk into certain stores my signal drops dramatically or I do not have a signal at all, but I think this has very little to do with T-mobile.

There are many times a day that I say I can't stand Cingular / AT&T coverage. I am on my second phone and I still get a lot of dropped calls and even though I am near Washington D.C., Cingular has many holes in coverage. I am going to dump Cingular as soon as I and dump them. You call this cell service?

I've never had any problems with service in my area. Whether it be in or outdoors service and reception is of high quality. Bars tend to fluctuate some traveling on 95 but never completely lost signal.

I just rented a house in Ashland community. I have 1 bar and cannot place calls from the house all the way to Rt. 95 (about 1-2 miles) and, like magic, have a full 5 bars. Wish I knew this before I signed the lease.

I had a a Cingular Motorola for many years, but the reception was lousy in the house. If you moved at all, the call would drop. Spotty service along 495 in northern va and on 95 south. I recently signed up with Verizon and I have had excellent service throughout no. va. No dropped calls or dead spots so far.

With Cingular, my reception is perfect at my home. Going down Hoadly Road, it craps out at Hoadly Rd.and Dale Blvd., but that is about the only dead spot around. When I visit my friends in Montclair, the reception is really bad to absolute zero.

The service goes in and out and you loose your call half way through. It is not the phone it is new. The service sucks. Dont ever get Nextel they stink with customer service and service in general.

I only get one bar in my house, but 3 bars outside. Amazingly, with one bar I get crystal clear reception with no dropped calls. Traveling up and down I-95 results in strong reception through Alexandria. Take Minnieville south from Old Bridge and you lose all T-Mobile reception very quickly.

Don't use Cingular in Port Potomac. Terrible reception!

I rarly loose service. Most of the tim I have about 3-5 bars.

Reception is very bad for whole 22191 zip code area. Like no bars

Former AT&T customer sold to cingular. Reception is 2 to 5 bars most times, which is enough to make a call but it changes rapidly without me moving. As others have said 5 to 0 in a second, just long enough to drop the call. Also, I sometimes simply won't get incoming calls or messages and messages can be delayed for up to a few days. I was hoping a better phone might improve the situation but from reading the other reviews it seems unlikely.