It's pathetic when you have no signal in your own home. The connection also drops out in various suburbs as I commute to work. I'd hate to get a flat when I have no signal! I don't know if the problem is the phone or the service, but Nextel put their name on the equipment so they should make sure it works!

dead spots on ike bet austin and loop. Sprint is horrible

I was with Cingular for a while and rcvd disgustingly horrid customer service due to them over-billing me every other month. I switched to AT&T and everything was wonderful until I needed a new phone. I knew of the merge of course but thought that I would not feel the effects within my contract - yeah right. I was forced to go with Cingular to get a new phone, or pay the $175.00 fee to get out of my contract with AT&T…(I’m sorry, I thought that this was a free country). So at this moment I am in the third week of my 30 day “buyers’ remorse period”, on my second phone with another phone and different model on the way and no signal for three weeks now. The only thing that Cingular is raising is their customers’ BLOOD PRESSURE!

Anywhere in this area, indoors and out, I get horrible service. Usually I vascillate between 1 bar and 0 bars, and therefore drop pretty much every call. Indoors my phone almost never rings because it has no signal.

Can't use phone t all indoors zero bars

Occasionally I get one bar on Analog / roam mode that will last for a few seconds, but usually No Service, inside or outside the building.

This is the location of our home. It is highly unusual if we can get a single bar... usually we get a "no service" message. This makes our cell phone entirely useless at home. Reporting to Cingular does no good. Our previous phone was a Nokia and we could actually make an occasional call with it from home.

This area is dead 99.9% of the time. This continues 2 or 3 miles to the west. Have complained to Cingular but to no avail.

Half the time I get 'No Service' - If you do get service for a minute consider the call dropped immediately afterwards. Same near my house at 88th Ave and 100th ST Palos Hills and Hickory are horrible areas for Nextel coverage. I've spoken to customer service on numerous occasions and they admit lacking badly needed additional tower(s) in the area. Same deal with Sprint and AT&T Cingular and Verizon over here. Stick with T-Mobile - the only carrier that has enough towers in the area

i wish Verizon or someone would put a tower between mt.vernon and salem. if you live in my area there is no need for a cell phone unless your in town