Full bars, always. Cell tower (which is not on the map on this website) is right on Sterling Station Road. The tower, however, is low. Once I get into the Village of Fair Haven, reception is spotty and miss or drop calls occasionally on Main Street. Traveling to Syracuse and Rochester have been fine. Reception for Verizon along 104A, 3, 481, 81, 104, 390, 590, all fine.

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.

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.

Barely ever lose reception and I usually have a good 5 bars or so. However, back roads around here are horrible with reception.

3-5 bars,Iam actualy writing this review on my phone.

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"

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

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.

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.

We routinely get 2 bars and occasionally 3. Both voice and data service is dependable here although a booster helps when using Verizon's broadband wireless modem. Depending on which room we are in, inside house the reception can occasionally be less than perfect but overall, we have no complaints. We dropped the land line a year ago and "went wireless". So far, we have no regrets.

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

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.

This phone works well in the city but not outside. More towers are needed in this area.

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.

No reception inside. A little better outside. Nowhere around our house is very good.

Reception is better outside, but sometimes shaky in doors.