Cingular is horrible. On a map you can see that most of the cell towers in Gainesville area are owned by Cingular / AT&T, but every other service works better on the towers. At the last 3 places I've lived in town the service was unattainable- It was really common for me to take a long walk or drive just to get messages and return calls. The first of those places was less than 300 yards from a Cingular tower. The second was line of sight with a Cingular tower on the nearest tall building. The third was right near campus and would have a perfect signal all day long but I could never send a call, got alot of fast-busys, many missed calls and delayed messages, and I would actually get crosstalk like with a land line that's miswired. At my new location service is slightly better (not as bad as campus or SW 23rd st), but every day I lose service completele for about 2-3 hours intermittently. The phone will go from 5 bars to 0 and the phone cannot even call 911. I have had 3 phone models- 1st was replaced 5 times, 2nd was replaced 8 times, 3rd is on it's 3rd replacement. Full coverage and signal but constant "network busy". Tower routers have actually caused my phones to not be able to hang up on calls- I have turned a phone off by pulling the battery and when it powered back up the call was still on the line and my friends line wasn't letting them hang up either. Dr.5 miles in any direction out of town and you will have perfect service, even in the middle of a swamp. Dr.across NW 16th ave towards 8th Ave and you will lose every call- EVERY CALL in that spot gets dropped no matter what, but you will have a full signal the whole time. Cingular needs to hire a couple of tower technicians because it seems they are just putting these things up and equipping them with the weakest, cheapest, most ineffective networking hardware available. If you report exact locations of dropped calls, dead spots, or just randomly f'd up stuff you will be snubbed- CSRs wont even write down the information that you give them. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY WITH CINGULAR- the only service that will drop your calls, messages, and even your phones IMEI number from their database.

Calls dropped frequently when entering the Tuttle Causeway (I-195) on the Miami side's bridge. You will get disconnected while going over the bridge in most instances. I wouldn't recommend initiating or continuing a call until you have gone past the bridge.

i get nothing here its completely dead

For 2 years we've been stuck with T-Mobile. The first year we couldn't make a call anywhere inside our house except standing by one window. After numerous complaints to T-Mobile they suckered us into buying two new phones that worked WORSE than the first two. But because we were stuck in their nasty web of long term contracts there was nothing we could do. Tonight our contract is up and I just smashed my phone into 10,000 pieces. I plan to take these pieces in a small bag and dump them on the counter of my local T-Mobile store. Right after I ask them if they want their phone back. Maybe I'll video tape it. That would rock.

Normally zero bars; occassionaly 1 bar in house. Unacceptable Audio Quality.

I have continually called Cingular over the past 3 years and they keep telling me they are working on improving reception out in the Estates. I can sometimes get my cell to ring but am not able to have a conversation on the phone as I get little or no signal.

Have to walk about 150 ft. east from the front door of my condo to get one bar.

Have been with Cingular for many years and loved the plans and their customer service. I thought when Cingular and AT&T merged there would naturally be better service because of More towers... Wrong! From cr121 to I-10; I95 to lem turner have always been able to call but now I am constantly receiving "call failed" messages immediately upon pressing send button. Mornings are worse... overloaded circuits perhaps? I am paying for phone service but cannot use it when I NEED TO.

no reception inside home and very little outside just moved from west bradenton were service was decent but here nothing.

No signal. Need to go to I4 to use phone. This is worse than TMobile which at least would fall back to Analog...