AT&T
Multiple Dropped calls, don't understand. I always show good signal but phone shows "call failed". Very frustrating since I just got rid of my land line.
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This phone needs to be outdoors for reliable reception. Signal strength can be as high as 3 bars in the open. But indoors it drops to 1 bar or ZERO! You need to mount the phone on a table and jack in an earphone. Your mobility is reduced but you can avoid dropouts. My Blackberry has a cool stand that allows you to keep the phone stationary.
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Great reception with Cingular, former AT&T Wireless and T-Mobile in this area indoors and outdoors. Coverage is so strong that I can use my internet in my laptop using my EDGE data card indoors. From the map, you only see one tower in the whole area so you'd think the coverage is lacking. Apparently there are microcells mounted on a nearby private apartment building as I've seen them. I believe they belong to a private company that provides the major providers coverage on their equipment.
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Almost perfect on base. In some areas of the PACAF building you will lose your signal but I haven't found a carrier that can deliver in all areas of this huge multi-walled building. Many time you will get a message alert even if you don't get the call in the building which doesn't happen with some other carriers. This way at least you know you have missed something. Otherwise Oahu coverage is great as is coverage while traveling on the Mainland.
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OK out in the open but if you are in many of the buildings you will lose your signal.
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Very good reception, best yet. I think it is the service not the phone as much. I have had problems with the phone, but after almost three years my phone is still working. TMobile gets my vote, wish that International reception was as good, maybe that is asking for too much.
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My sister has T-Mobile and for her to call out from walmart she has to borrow my Cingular cell phone. Cingular is the only one to have perfect reception throughout the store. Having the ability to call and make contact with your spouse when shopping is a big help. Places where Cingular don't have reception, other carriers are the same. Cingular has more places of good reception in hawaii than any other carrier.
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I have lived in this area for a long time and rarely have problems. I talk on the phone and drive quite a bit and there is only one dead spot that I know of at the end of Wanaka Dr. Good service.
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Just when you drive under the Papakolea Bridge, the cell signal cuts out.
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I have had Verizon Wireless for 5 years. They are FANTASTIC. Great, customer service, and GREAT coverage too. I take that back. Not just GREAT coverage but AWESOME coverage. No exaggeration... I am able to get coverage in various parking garages around downtown Honolulu - Melim Tower, Harbor Court - in their elevators too! - and I even get coverage in their fire exits too. Overall, I've been very happy with Verizon (equpiment, coverage, etc.) for the entire 5 years I've been with them.
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