AT&T

My location is not even a mile from this crossing. I can't use my phone in the house, and sometimes not even outside or in the local street. Cingular shrugs it's shoulders and says there is nothing they can do.
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Occasionally my reception will be clear, and T-Mobile has a funny habit of showing more signal bars than I think they actually have. T-Mobile is the worst about dropped calls, but if you don't get your call dropped, it's usually pretty clear. West campus generally SUCKS no matter what cell service you have. If you can afford it, get a land line for more reliability.
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Just signed up with this service. thank god I have 14 days to cancel. Terrible reception inside my apt. and I live up high on a hill. Totally drops calls and when it does complete a call, if it completes a call, then the static is so bad. I gotta find a better network.
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I actually have 3phones, the Treo, a Motorola 440 and a Samsung 427 and get great reception on all three. Such good reception that I have never had to deal with customer service so I can not comment on that. My service with ATT and now Cingular has always exceeded what appears to be other peoples experience.
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Poor to no reception in east austin near Manor and Airport. Never ever let anyone talk you into going with Cingular. Absolutely the worst compnay I've ever dealt with in my entire life. Have had multiple Cingular users at my house with a variety of phones and no one gets a useable signal at my house or anywhere on my street, yet Cingular claims it's the equipment, and that I should buy a new phone. Crooks! Steer clear of these low life jerks and go with anyone else. You would have better luck with some yarn and plastic cups.
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Sometimes, just sometimes, I get 1 bar... OK, almost never! Now, how can coverage be so bad and I'm virtually in the middle of the city??? Less than 5 miles from downtown Austin! Cingular's respnse??? "Sorry."
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Nothing but hills here... ... .you'd need a tower on every hilltop to get down in these ravines. Signal drops to zero near Hull Cir. and again at the Bee Creek bridge (The High Road). T-Mobile is the only carrier that gets even two bars halfway consistently near the bridge, and even though calls break up occasionally, calls seldom get dropped. I've tried Cingular, AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon... ... .don't find yourself in this area needing to make an emergency call on those systems. You will die of frustration well before you can bleed to death. Dropouts are also frequent on the south side of Red Bud also, starting within a quarter mile of Bee Caves Rd. Cell phone frequencies are high enough that they are fairly line of sight... ... .if you can't see a tower with your eye, it may not see your phone, making an idyllic location near the creek a poor place for yapping on the phone, especially if power lines are near.
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I cannot use my cell phone at home. Reception goes from 4 bars to 0 bars in the house without moving the phone. I can use it at one point in the back yard. Works great in Dallas and Houston, though.
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I live in San Antonio and Dr.to Austin 5 nights a week to work. My reception is always good. The only time I have trouble with reception is when I am talking to a friend who has Sprint( he is constantly dropping calls).
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Basically NO service. If I have to make a phone call, I have to go borrow my room mate's T-Mobile.
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