We live on Pickering passage and get reasonably good coverage most of the time from here to Olympia and Bremerton areas with only a few dead areas. Three times in the past two years my bars dropped to 0 or 1 at home and each time I have called Nextel Customer Service to report the problem. It was fixed within an hour or so! Don't know what they did, but obviously they have a way...

Little to no service. Calls frequently drop. Service to area not consistent or reliable. Head to the lake and you may get some service but 9 out of 10 times the call will be dropped. Head up to the road and you have a 50% change of making a call? What is wrong? Verizon keeps tell me, that their service is "improving"? To what might I ask? It's so sad that you have to call from a hard line just to talk to Verizon about no service on your phone!

Little to no service. Calls frequently drop. Service to area not consistent or reliable.

We have to stand out in the middle of the street to have reception. There is little to none in our house.

Got good reception when I lived in Oly, but what service wouldn't. Moved to the water and lost it all. When the phone switches to Analog it won't dial out or ring in. I found a two square foot area that I can stand in - right on the cliff to barely make a call (2-3 bars). I can put the phone in one window of the house and it will ring in, but I can not talk on it. A friend came out and her Cingular phone dialed out while standing in the living room. What happened to test phones in this industry for us rural users?

Previously with ATT as carrier I got poor to moderate reception in the Timberlake Development, after the Cingular purchase of ATT the reception dropped to NO Service.

T-Mobile map on the web says 1 bar of reception, but didn't get anything.