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.

This phone has recieved superbly at this location for the past two years. This fall however, no change in bars but all calls in or out are gone the phone just tries in vain to redial. Thanks ATT / Cingular.

Nothing. Feeling like I have to get a land line.

I switched from T-Mobile to Sprint because of cheaper family plan. Big mistake. I get 0 bars indoors making this phone essentially useless. I'll be switching back ASAP.