Had Verison for years and put up with poor reception where I needed it. Have had ATT for 2 years and now I get it at work Osewgo at Pmile point, Pennellville and Woodgate, NY. Now aren,t we supposed to buy our carrier baced on where WE WANT it, not on mation wide, or Metropolitan use? Make sure you do the reserch and use others phones before you pick your carrier. All the rest os Bu--S--it.

I've had Verizon for 5-6 years in both Rochester and Syracuse. Their coverage is flawless. I've never had a problem with it and I never drop calls. Too bad they don't have the iPhone though. And their data plans are expensive. But, as I said, the coverage is perfect.

Don't get why people here complain about Nextel. Works great!

outside reception is excellent (6bars) but inside reception is about 3 on the upper floors. I get 1-2 bars in my basement and it often cuts out if i'm not by my window.

Right by the liverpool high school gives you great reception. This comes in handy when texting and IMing your friends durring classes at the high school.

Great coverage at work! No really problems getting or placing calls.

AT&T wireless and wireless internet reception on both the Sierra Wireless 881U network adapter (4 out of 5 bars with no external antenna - external Yagi on the way) and my Sony Ericson phone (5 out of 5 bars) cell are very, very good or excellent. I never have dropped calls on the phone and I get ~ 30 KBytes / s internet download transfer rates with the internet adapter when it is showing a signal strength of -72 dBm and four bars. I suspect / hope the transfer rate will rise yet more when I get the external antenna.

Verizon wireless opened a tower in Richfield Springs in the spring of 2006. This gives good to perfect coverage for the village and the surrounding area. This is Verizon Wireless only. Disreguard comments about this are before 2006. It was a very poor area for all cell phones until this tower was activated.

Reception is generally pretty good, but Customer Service is really the pits!

I can get 3-5 bars at home but poor reception going thru West Monroe on Rt 49. Friends with different providers get very poor or no signal at my home.

I am still sharing a 2nd cell line with a family member in Orlando who has T-Mobile. Since I have a wireless router, I purchased the Nokia 6301 so I could talk to her. The wireless part of the phone does allow me to make and receive calls, by connecting to my home network's wireless router. But it's range is extremely limited and is affected by walls, lights, etc. The router is a WRT54G-S and it works fine. The phone, on the other hand, seems to be using something more limited. The family member has been with T-Mobile for 4 years and will finally switch to another carrier when the current contract expires. The coverage in Florida is fine if you're in a major city, but if you hop on a thruway and travel somewhere, expect problems. We wonder why T-Mobile isn't expanding more?

I have seen heavy improvements from T-Mobile in my area. It's still in need of work, but you can tell it's getting better. T-Mobile is finally worth getting.

Depends on the day- drops calls often. It seems to depend on cloud cover, wind, snow, etc. Sometimes it's fine, other times, it won't work whatsoever. "call failed"

Even though I only get 1 to 2 bars, the LG VX8300 is able to allow normal conversations inside and outdoors. The only problems I have had, have been with interference from fluorescent lights while I am walking around the house. So I usually sit down away from fluorescents and it's fine. We are upgrading to the new LG Chocolates (8550 models, not the old model) and I will get to test the reception tomorrow, when the phones arrive via FedEx. Was with Cingular 3-4 years ago and couldn't receive anything out here by the lake. Same with T-Mobile. I had a Samsung T509 and was on T-Mobile's Family Share plan with a family member who lived in Orlando. Could never talk to her inside, and only sporadically outdoors - depending on weather conditions. I always wondered what a clamshell phone with an external antenna would have received.

reception outside is ok, inside is horrible. sometimes I have 3 bars but then it cuts out. very unreliable.

Was a Cingular customer for 5 years. Was told this year I had to upgrade or pay an upfee and still possibly lose the little reception I had anyways. Got new phones with new technology. They were worse. Reps from the store purchased were terrible, their superiors were as unreliable as the phones. Worst phone company around. Now a satisfied Verizon customer. Great Northern Mall store is the place.

Have been living here for 1 year now and cannot get reception with Cingular or Verizon. If I travel a few miles down the road I can get a signal. I can get a call to last about 30 seconds before the signal is lost. Very disappointing in this area. I am getting ready to switch providers but I don't think there will be reception from any of the providers.

Reception is very poor all through Altmar. At my home, reception auto switches from the Sprint Network to roaming. Can sometimes receive one bar at home. With Sprint, I receive between 0 and 2 bars when traveling between Altmar and Oswego on either Route 3 or 104.

Almost no reception - sometimes it improves outdoors.

I have this phone and it goes dead mid sentence. In addition, if I am on the phone for more than 10 minutes the call gets dropped just about every time. I had AT&T and loved it and the Samsung phone I had. Never had any problems and maybe one dropped call for 25 every successful calls. I rue the day my husband switched over to Cingular.