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.