Bad reception in my house and I get many dropped calls. It seems to work for about 10 minutes and then suddenly drops the call. It happens with other carriers too when my friends come over.

Never have any troubles aorund UW or Wallingford / Greenlake / Fremont. 3-5 bars (out of 5) is standard.

Super poor reception in my house. I have to walk outside to have a steady conversation with anyone. I believe it's my phone more than anthing though. I borrowed my friend's LG phone and reception in my house seemed to be just fine.

Terrible reception at home, vmail sometimes not delivered until days later.

Absolutely terrible reception inside my apartment and not much better outside. This area is in the shadow of three huge radio towers and I suspect that has something to do with the bad / spotty cell phone reception on Capitol Hill.

When I was on ATT calls would drop after less that a minute, that is if they would even go though. AT&T was no help when I called them repeatedly. I bought a AudioVox 5600 which suffered disconnections just about as badly, however I have since started switching my phone to use the Cingular 31041 tower on capital hill which has brought my bars up to a 4 / 5. :) There is no Cingular reception in Redmond were I work, but I can easily switch to ATT out there since their network is golden in Redmond.

Calls would drop after less that a minute, that is if they would even go though. AT&T was no help when I called them repeatedly. I bought a AudioVox 5600 which suffered disconnections just about as badly, however I have since started switching my phone to use the Cingular 31041 tower on capital hill which has brought my bars up to a 4 / 5. :)

Very good reception / transmission inside an apartment facing west; excellent reception / transmission outside. Have had phone about six months and am quite pleased with it. The only time that I have been unable to make a call has been while on a bus heading south on the freeway from the Northgate Transit Center. Apart from that situation, T-Mobile service is excellent wherever I travel (Seattle / Tacoma / Olympia).

Have yet to find a weak spot in West Seattle on GSM. Areas that my TDMA phone was worthless work quite well with my GSM phone. I'll check out the other report on poor reception in West Seattle area, but think it's a fluke.

Never any reception in my house. Sometimes got one bar when I crossed the street towards the water. sometimes I had to walk a block or so to get any reception. Service worked great elsewhere in seattle.

I have never had a complaint with Verizon in Des Moines, anywhere in Washington state, or across the nation. I've called folks standing beside me, they being on T Mobile and ATT, and they frequently have crappy reception, even in their own backyards. I'm very thankful I didn't go with anything but Verizon. I also get reception when on Rainier. Being on the Nationwide Single Rate plan, I've had good reception in Alaska and Hawaii, near towns obviously, at no additional cost! I even have reception in Canada, but roaming charges kick in there, so the phone stays off.

Good to great reception (3-5 bars) everywhere I go in Seattle, with the exception of Karkeek Park/North Beach area- probably a dead zone for most carriers. Poor service (dropped calls, difficulty checking voicemails, phone doesn't ring on incoming call), consistently occurs on Friday nights and Saturdays, but overall I've been really happy with T-Mobile. Only big complaint: occasionally someone will call and leave a message, and the phone won't tell me I missed a call or have a new message until several days later. Grrrr... BTW: in almost two years of having service with T-Mobile I've never needed to call customer service (I use in excess of 1500 minutes a month). I consider this a good sign...

I hate hate hate AT&T. I frequently get the fast busy tone, despite have high signal strength, and my calls are dropped all the time. Customer service has been terrible, and despite my trying to be kind (it's not the operator's fault, after all), they've bordered on indignant with me. I'm switching to Verizon.

I get awesome Qwest reception downtown, on the hill, out in Madison, I have NEVER entered roaming in Seattle unless I'm goin through the metro tunnels (three floors beneath the ground... no one's perfect).

Just switched to Verizon from AT&T Wireless. I get one bar inside the house, and calls drop so frequently I can't give up my landline. Maybe two bars outside. Somewhat better than AT&T (the other party generally couldn't hear me at all), but for so much more money I was hoping for a big upgrade.

Verizon is suffering from the lack of network capacity. They offer a fairly good system in the greater Seattle area but the system during peak times will not reliably switch your call to the next cell location while you are on the move. I have spoken to Verizon 9 times in 11 months on this issue. Finally got a senior technician from Sunnyvale, CA to admit the system is overloaded and that reps who tried to convince me my phone suddenly stopped working right or that there were network "switch" issues being worked on were full of it. I have no advice. You cannot depend on placing calls with Verizon in almost any dense part of Seattle during business hours (after hours they seem to go thru fine).

Just as you make go west on Yesler from Martin Luther King, there is a dead spot. I have to make sure you get over the hill before you get reception again. Basically the west side of the Yesler Hill is covered by Eastside towers and they don't hand off correctly from the towers in the Central District.

I was a happy Qwest customer until around Oct 04 when they switched to using Sprint's cell towers. Now I usually get 0-1 bars in my condo, with frequent garbled converstaions and dropped calls. Probably switching to Cingular, since my friend's phone seems to work fine here.

We have several Verizon phones in our office at 23rd and Yesler and none of us have reception.

Switched to Nextel when a service man was calling his home office from under my house with full signal strenght. Also, seamless network all the way into Canada. They are more expensive but a fine example of you get what you pay for.