Cingular has vastly improved their coverage in Clark County over the last six months, adding around 14 towers during this time period. I believe that several more are planned as well. Most are in the southern half of the county, but a couple are further north. The Orchards area has been filled out well.

I have been nothing but pissed off at the horrible GSM AT&T coverage I have in the Portland / Vancouver area. This feeling is reflected by many of my friends. Dropped calls and garbled voice all the time. And on major freeways! I used to have TDMA with AT&T Wireless and the covergae was excellent. Do not make the switch!

Coverage shows 4G but its very poor, I get 4G a couple blocks away from home. PRL updates helped. the phone is better than the signal. Sprint has spreed itself too thin: Boost-Virgin-eats up bandwidth $190 per month should buy more than it does.

Have been with company for over 2 yrs. Calls will drop when near freeway. Worse when at home. Service will work for a few minutes than I am unable to recieve or make calls for about an hour. This repeats throughout the day. 5 minutes it'll work long enough to recieve the texts I missed but as soon as I call voicemail or contacts, my service fails! The rep onine tells me to use a landline to call my voicemaill or contacts. Unfortunately I have to go to a neighbor to use a landline! Is this why I pay the cell phone company... so I can use someone's phone to see if I recieve a call on my cell phone??! I'm Very irritated with Cingular right now!

Terrible phone service - nearly every call gets dropped at some phone. The service is very bad in Portland as well.

Drops calls, does not ring, hard to hear. This also happens when I am in Seattle.

Often 0-1 bar with Verizon. Calls regularly go straight to VM without rining. Dropouts are common. I have to go outside to make a call. Cingular was better in the area and given the Cell tower map that's no surprise. Major Cingular exception was there is NO Cingular reception at the Cingular store on 63rd and Andresen.

No Sprint and Verizon dont use the same tower... Most cell companys put there towers near each other like they fallow them around, unless your Verizon phone says extended network then its Sprint if your Sprint phone says Roaming it is Verizon most likely it might be another company but in major metro areas thats how it works

Constant drops in and around home with both Sprint and Verizon. Do they use same tower? How can I find out? Thinking of Cingular / AT&T.

Money in the bank! Let me tell you, if you're not with Cricket right now you're missin' out. Do you wanna save money? Do you enjoy the word "unlimited"? Does it make you feel fuzzy inside? I LOVE CRICKET!

I have been with Cricket for about 3 months now and wow, I thought the coverage was going to be the worst and I love it, I drop more calls with my Cingular phone than I ever do with Cricket. Also some might be scared of traveling outside there network they have this awesome deal called travel minutes and it works! Go cricket thank GOD for no contracts!

At least 80% of my calls are dropped, the other 20% have consistent break-up. This happens anywhere I attempt to make a call. This is due to the phone and not Verizon's lack of coverage. Throughout this nightmare Verizons CS has been just that a nightmare. They have consistently insisted that it's not their service, or the phone; what else could it be? I switched back to my StarTac for the last three monthe of my contract and I havn't had one problem with dropped calls or break-up, too bad it doesn't have all the features I need. If Verizon would have provided a little better service I would consider staying with them, as it stands it's time for a change.

Reception fails often. "Emergency Only" signal appears often here. Phone continues to drop calls and goes completely blank as if off. This AT&T GSM network is over sold and grossly inadequate. Cingular uses AT&T systems here, so don't even consider them. Hard to go wirless in this part of the world.

I have had AT&T TDMA and GSM and NEVER have I been more satisfied with cell phone service (outside of my Moto DPC550 flip in 1992) than I am with my Verizon phone and service. My friend has Sprint and he doesnt have the coverage I do and my sister has T-MO and can't keep up with me... AT&T... Don't even bother, they are aweful... and this area doesnt even get the advantages of Cingular since they are not even in this area. :( Verizon in Vancouver / Portland is the best imho

There is an AT&T Worthless store at that intersection and you get ABSOLUTELY NO SERVICE!!! Even with the repeater they put on the building!!!

Bad reception. 1 bar in my house and constantly dropping calls. I do not recommend T-mobile.

AT&T is terrible. Their TDMA coverage is better. I live in this vicinity and cannot hold a call. My wife has TDMA and her phone works fine. The crazy thing is that there is a AT&T Wireless Store at this intersection. An employee informed me (when I went in to complain about the reception) that they have a booster in the attic so that the demo phones will work in the store, otherwise there is no reception in their store. In 2 weeks I am going to try someone else.

Took a lot if crap because I was the only one they had to keep asking to repeat myself on a recent conference call. I called Verizon technical support and they told me they have a tower 1.05 miles north of my location. Optimum signal strength is -60 to -80 dBm for cell voice calls. I constantly have between -94 to -110. (Obviously, higher negative numbers reflect worse signal strength). The technician said my problem is that I am inside a building. Great! All I have to do to be able to carry on a conversation on Verizon is go stand in the rain. A little over a mile away from the tower and their signal is 30-40 percent worse than AT&T. The tech said something very telling -- wouldn't you rather have lower signal than no coverage at all. That pretty much sums up Verizon - great coverage map with low signal strength. I'd rather be understood on the phone than have a big map.

Usually one bar, if at all, sometimes two. Drops calls regularly. Misses calls all the time. Over all, bad.

Began with ATT Wireless which worked well for us. After 3 years, Cingular bought them out. We had a bad experience with Cingular in the past, so we were not happy with the buyout. Now we are unable to rely on cell phone connection at home. We must go outside, and even then calls are routinely dropped. Cingular says they are bringing in more towers. They want us to switch to a new phone (for a cost, of course.) We are waiting out our contract and will switch to another carrier, probably Verizon. Our first experience with Cingular was that they sold us phones and then LIED about coverage. We eventually got out of the contract without paying a penalty, but had to take it all the way to the company's president. Avoid Cingular!