Major USCC Dead spots! The entire city works had gread reception with USCC except Johnson St., and Gorham, in that neighborhood. Always drops calls while passing through there. Also, when near the Midvale Blvd. south of University Ave., 0 signal strength. I know this because my doctor's office is there. Sometimes the phone will go to analog, and drain your battery. I'm assuming this is because of the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) hypocrites. Those are the people who complain about cell reception, but don't want cell sites in there neighborhoods.

Dead zone. All calls are lost when passing East Washington on Stoughton Road.

Very marginal signal in downtown Madison. My 2-yr contract just expired and I'm so ready to dump Verizon!

Cingular SUCKS, I regret switching over from US Cellular.

An occasional blip of several bars on a good day; otherwise very poor reception in this neighborhood, particularly indoors, even at the open window. Original CIngular (not old ATT) -type service.

I get less than two bars at home - and that's when I'm sitting in the chair by the window. The service also fluctuates, as if it's switching between subnetworks or something, so I get cut off a lot, even when I'm sitting still. I live in a brick building, so that may have something to do with it, but still... Reception elsewhere isn't bad; my boyfriend lives on the near west side of the Capitol in a wooden house, and I've never had trouble placing or receiving calls there. I also get 3 bars or more in the elevator at work. Still, not being able to take advantage of free long distance at home because of crappy reception sucks. My contract is up in May, and I'll find another service provider then. In theory, my plan was one of the best values out there, but I'm paying too much for features I can't use because the network is bad. Also, I agree with other posters that Cingular's customer "service" is lousy. I've been left on hold for 45 minutes before, only to have the person on the other end of the phone yell at me because I asked her to repeat something that she mumbled at me in the first place. :^(

Strong reception always, with the exception of inside campus buildings. Otherwise, reception is always 5 bars and calls are clear and never drop.

No signal indoors. Can mak a call on my balcony if I try about 3 times and stand perfectly still

I have never had any drops and usually very good reception everywhere downtown.

When I lived in Florida, my AT&T / Cingular reception was abysmal. I've had nearly perfect reception ever since I moved to Madison. However, the past week or so it's been a little less stable than usual and I read in another poster's comments that very recently Cingular somehow deactivated its old AT&T towers in the area. That's unfortunate. Cingular's customer service, however, is absolutely horrible. Horrible, horrible, horrible.