[djdj]

T-Mobile here in Orem, Utah. This is one of their oldest coverage areas (since 1996) and get 5 bars just about everywhere I go. Dropped calls are virtually non-existent whenever I'm in town.

I've had phones with Verizon and AT&T here as well. Verizon's coverage is excellent. AT&T's uses both 850 and 1900MHz and is generally somewhere between barely adequate and awful. Sprint's is barely adequate as well. We also have Cricket covering this area and their coverage is generally quite poor, with dropped calls being pretty typical.

[djdj]

T-Mobile here in Orem, Utah. This is one of their oldest coverage areas (since 1996) and get 5 bars just about everywhere I go. Dropped calls are virtually non-existent whenever I'm in town.

I've had phones with Verizon and AT&T here as well. Verizon's coverage is excellent. AT&T's uses both 850 and 1900MHz and is generally somewhere between barely adequate and awful. Sprint's is barely adequate as well. We also have Cricket covering this area and their coverage is generally quite poor, with dropped calls being pretty typical.

[Brad Adrian]

My AT&T connection rarely lets me down. I guess it all depends on where you spend your time and what kind of services are most important to you. For example, I seldom venture very far away from metropolitan areas or major interstate highways. So, coverage usually meets my needs, especially when it comes to high speed data connectivity; my pushed e-mail is delivered immediately 99% of the time.

[The Yaz]

I have had Sprint for two months now with a Treo 800W. Coverage has been acceptable in NJ and even on a vacation drive down to South Carolina, the data speed did not drop below 1X. I've only run into two dead spots so far and they tend to be in parks off the highway system.

When I first got the Treo, people did comment that I sounded much clearer than on my old phone (Motorolla on AT&T Wireless).

Steve

[JesterMania]

I'm with Rogers and I find the signal varies depending on the phone, at least in the GTA. With my Motorola SLVR L2, reception was terrific whereas my Nokia N95 is most often 1-2 bars lower in reception. I hope the Touch Diamond will yield better reception as I will probably be getting that as an upgrade once Rogers gets this device. Either way, I don't think I can give up a smartphone even if it means sacrificing some reception due to many other benefits.

[Torque]

Originally Posted by Pete Paxton

Here's the reason I ask: Last December when I switched to AT&T, I was told that the coverage in my area is considered "good." Even on their website coverage map it's considered "good." I would say that 90% of the time I cannot place a call from my home. I often see "No Service" on my device. Luckily I have a land line (which I wouldn't have if I had better coverage) and I also have WiFi so I can access my email, wirelessly sync my PIM stuff, and surf the web. But it's still frustrating that the reps and the maps show coverage that I'm just not getting. Other devices with either T-Mobile or AT&T are the same here. My wife's phone with Verizon does fine. I find my coverage is spotty. So I ask you, how's the coverage in your area? Are you happy with the over all coverage when you go places? Can you still get coverage in department stores?

My carrier is AT&T and the coverage in my area sucks. I live and work in the Atlanta, GA area, which is Cingular's home territory (before AT&T assimilated them) and I get random dropped calls all over town and dead spots. Up the street from where I live there is an entire quarter mile area dead spot that includes a shopping center and up from that is a housing development where I have zero bars. I shudder to think that if I lived there, I'd have to pay a disconnect fee and hope that my credit wouldn't keep me from getting service with another carrier. The only reason I remain with AT&T is the rollover minutes. I don't spend that much time on the phone and it helps to have the rollover minutes when i need them. If they ever do away with the rollover minutes, I will be seeking a new carrier.

My contract is up for renewal next year and unless they provide me with a compelling reason to sign up for another two years (a free smartphone of my choice would be compelling enough, but I doubt they'd do it.), I won't be renewing my contract. As long as they have rollover minutes and no other carrier offers anything similar, I'll still be with them but they have competition for my business. If Sprint still has that "Everything Plan" and they are willing to subsidize the Treo Pro for me, I'll bounce. Unlimited Everything is what I really want and I seriously doubt AT&T would ever offer that.

[Jason Lee]

AT&T all the way. I've been with Cingular/AT&T since they go here (just after the became Cingular).
I had the Old AT&T, switched to Nextel because they were the first to have packet data service, switched to Sprint because they were the first to have usable data service, then finally to Cingular because they had coverage and usable data service!
I was sick and tired of only getting coverage on most highways (sprint) or only getting coverage in 3 cities in the whole state (Nextel). T-Mobile has been in my area for quite some time but they never worked much out of the down town area... Of a small city. hehe.

Where ever I travel AT&T has been there and between here and there. Works great for me. I get full bars at home and around half, or better, in the concrete bunker I work in. Great 3G speeds in both places.

[harty83]

I'm on ATT in the Houston area. I get great 3G coverage even in the Houston suburb areas. However, when I visited VA in the Blacksburg area, coverage sucked and 3g didn't exist. I talked to a guy an ATT reseller spot and he said that yea, coverage sucked in the area and wouldn't improve till the put up more towers "which they are working on."

I miss the great coverage Verizon provided, but they do not have a decent selection in PDA phones with decent data packages.

[buckyg]

So far, ATT is alright for my business cell and Tilt. That is, if I don't go too far out in the country. Our families are in small towns in the Midwest US and ATT/partner coverage can be iffy, but it is getting better, very slowly. So my wife's staying with Verizon for now. I'd say in terms of phone coverage, they've got better overall coverage than ATT outside cities here.

[samw5]

I'm on AT&T and been with them for a while now. I live in Baltimore MD and pretty much always stay along the NE corridor (DC to Boston)... while staying withing large metro area coverage is surprisingly pretty descent.

I recently switched to an iPhone 3G which does exhibit random disconnects but my work 8525 doesn't seem to have too many issues...

I'm very satisfied with AT&T, not precisely because of coverage but other factors (phone, customer support, works overseas...) and am completely against every switching to Verizon...
I've had extremely bad customer experience with them (despite subscribing for several years) and would rather obtain one of those GSM signal booster for several hundred dollars before switching to the service...

[wspears868]

I have used both Verizon and Cingular(AT&T) and the results are time dependent. I started off with Cingular and its coverage of my area of Essex, MA was marginal (2 bars or less). When I switched to Verizon (my company has a Verizon acccount & added a signal booster within the building), the signal at home was originally about the same. The last year or so has seen a major improvement in the signal quality and I can now send and receive phone calls from the first floor which I never could with Cingular.