AT&T

No reception in spite of many Cingular promises and a map that shows coverage. Finally a Cingular tech admitted my coverage was "weak". It is so weak that I can't use the phone in my house or on my block. Have to go at least 2 blocks to make a call.
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We live in an apartment and have really poor reception on both our Verizon phones. Occasionally, I am able to tilt my head just the right way and my phone temporarily works okay, but moving 2 inches to the left and I lose the call or it breaks up. Sometimes I'm able to walk outside on our porch and reception is better, but around home and sporadically throughout downtown Denver, we have really bad luck with reception on our Verizon phones.
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Very very true about the sometime getting no service, mostly in houses
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I get pretty good reception around town, but I get a lot of dropped calls inside my house, and no reception inside some office buildings.
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I have had problems at home since I switched to Verizon last year. Reception breaks up constantly - have to repeat myself and callers need to do same. Verizon had me reprogram phone several times but did not help. Now working out of home most of the time so this is a real problem. Verizon sucks in this entire neighorhood. Finally, after much work, Verison confirmed that this area has a known service and reception problem - why don't they tell you that up front! - and that they have a new tower scheduled to go in at 17th and Logan but said it could be 6 months to 2 years! NOTE: they have agreed to let me out of my contract because of this! FURTHER NOTE: With the new EV phones, the bars for reception are USELESS unless you have two sets of bars, one for voice and for EV. My understanding is only a few phones have the dual bars - since most of the SOBs just put one set on the phone you don't know what kind of reception you're getting for voice - the bars are useless.
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Drops almost every call inside the apartment. Sometimes I can stand in the doorway to the bathroom and talk for ten minutes. Bars indicate decent reception, but the call gets dropped without notice.
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No Service. Cannot complete any calls EVER... DROPS EVERY CALL. Both phones usually show full bars, but often drop to 0. Won't work even out on balcony, leaning over edge. Poor, but usually usable reception standing on Acoma St. / Fair around city. / Spotty around the country. Often drop calls while showing lots of signal. Is this a bandwidth issue?
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I get limited very limited, if any reception at all, in this location. Usually I have to leave the hospital to use my cell phone.
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Horrible reception and frequent dropped calls in this zip code.
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Very poor signal strength outside, signal drops to 0 to 1 bar inside house, no signal at all in basement. All voice calls have to be done outdoors. SMS text messages do work well indoors for both receive and sending. Go 2 blocks south, or 4 blocks west, and the signal improves to 5 bars and voice calls are good.
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