Northbound on Rosa Rd.from Regent Street, reception is usually lost as one descends the hill.

Cingular service is good in this spot. US Cellular would drop calls and signal strength was low, 1 bar or none. US Cellular also did not work at the Airport, how Cingular performs there remains to be seen. Most of the East side of Madison seems to be covered well.

I get horrible reception inside my apartment, and along Muir Field for about.25 mile south of Raymond Rd. Too bad... I had excellent reception with my crappy old AT&T phone, but since AT&T merged with Cingular, I had no choice when I wanted to upgrade my phone.

I've had Cingular for 5 years and love their customer service as well as my phone's reception. TDMA was only fair with my old phone inside buildings, but GSM is great with my current phone. One daughter has the same phone, with no complaints; my wife and other daughter have Samsung X427Ms, with no reception complaints. (One of the Samsungs sometimes sounds muffled to the listener for about 20 seconds.) I have great reception everywhere in Madison and Monona (53716) as well. In fact, I've had great reception everywhere I've gone in the U.S.

I've had Cingular for 5 years and love their customer service as well as my phone's reception. TDMA was great with my old phone, and GSM is great with my current phone. One daughter has the same phone, with no complaints; my wife and other daughter have Samsung X427Ms, with no reception complaints. (One of the Samsungs sometimes sounds muffled to the listener for about 20 seconds.) I have great reception everywhere in Madison as well, including inside University buildings (53706).

Extremly BAD!... Don't use Cingular if you want to have a aperational Mobile in Eagle Heights

I rarely was able to get reception in around the Madison area while using Sprint. I had to switch my service just so that I could make and receive calls.

We constantly lose the signal on our phones. It's very rare to get through a conversation, or even order a pizza, without dropping a call. It's embarrassing and frustrating. About 50% of our calls go through and even then the reception is usually spotty. We're disgusted with US Cellular and, despite our complaints, they've done nothing for us. We're about ready to forfeit our cancellation fee and move on. Now I'm just trying to do my research so we don't get burned again.

Awful Reception if you live in or around Norris Court (Near Paterson and Ingersoll, b / t Johnson and Gorham). If you get AT&T Wireless then reception is fantastic, I'm talking ALL SEVEN BARS-- but AT&T is not available anymore after Cingular bought it. Sounds good though, right? Cingular bought out AT&T and will get AT&T's towers and reception will be great! WRONG! I've been waiting months for them to integrate their towers but they have yet to do so. Cingular has basically swallowd up more customers and done NOTHING to improve their service to customers (they give you free minutes and perks when you complain but reception continues to suck). I ask you, Cingular: why are perfectly great towers not being utilized! I should add that you do sometimes get reception from AT&T's towers but ONLY AFTER your phone call is dropped! It's ridiculous. Cingular has given me so much pain and trouble. Sometimes I stand in the corner of the room waiting for my phone call to drop just so I can get better reception. But there's another catch! After you get the great reception, do you know what happens? Soon after the phone goes out of its way to switch back to the crappy Cingular towers. Amazing!

Cingular service is horrible along the Gorham and Johnson corridor on the Isthmus. DO NOT get Cingular if you expect to use your phone between Tenney Park and the Capital.