Just how bad is AT&T?

Epic Fail for me... I had the iPhone for all of 3 weeks and returned it because of massive problems with dropped calls and no/little reception in the Las Vegas valley.

The damn network even dropped my call when I was on with network support!

-PJ

I have 4 or 5 bars, and a 3G indicator, practically everywhere I go day to day (SF Bay Area and peninsula, south bay to the city). But all the bars in the world don't mean much if the service doesn't actually work, which it often does not: dropped calls, calls that take forever to connect, and incoming calls that go straight to voice ... all with 5 bars staring me in the face.

In this same locality, my former carrier Sprint had a couple low-to-zero-bar dead zones (including an infamous spot in the I280 corridor), but other than those, never ever dropped a call on me, in eight years.

I live near Atlanta and there are many times when my iphone has no service and I have had many dropped calls. It's definitely worse than my 3G At&t phone i had before the iphone.

I say its great now a days. It has become from good to best. I dont remember when i dint get network last time.
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I've always had good service with AT&T (been with them since Cingular). When we got 3G here years ago, service got even better. I get 4-5 bars in my iPhone 3G in my basement, which is 3 feet underground.

And 3G speeds kick ass. I have pretty much stopped using Wi-Fi at home because 3G is just as fast and uses less battery.

What about those of us who would truly love to own an iPhone, but outright refuse to buy one due to the ridiculously horrible AT&T coverage in our area? I was working on several iPhone projects for work at the end of last year, so I had several 1st and 2nd gen iPhones for about 4 months. I loved the phone, but the coverage was absolutely terrible.

The device that I want is an iPod Touch with 3G data and nothing else. I would pay up to $20/month for that, but I couldn't justify paying for the phone service. I would still need a phone on another carrier just so that I could make/receives phone calls.

I'm noticing a pattern...it seems AT&T sucks out west, but isn't so bad in the east...

AT&T is *horrible*. I live in Chicago and work in downtown Chicago, and I can walk places faster than my calls will go through, I can't text or call anybody because of lack of service in my home, and at work I can't make long distance calls because though I have 2 bars in my office, the service really isn't there. I'm tempted to chuck my iPhone, too, except that I just interviewed for a job in Dallas, and I hope the service is better there.

In the Denver area, 3G is un-useable. I drop 90% of calls when 3G is turned on. I drop only 15% of calls on Edge. I've tried this all over the Denver metro area and found it to be the same problem everywhere. What annoys me is I am forced to pay more for 3G speeds but I have to turn off 3G to make my phone useable.

I was on Sprint prior to AT&T and Verizon prior to Sprint. As soon as the Pre is out, I will likely switch back to Sprint due to reception issues.

Here in Tucson, I get 4-5 bars all the time-even out on the Northwest side and the foothills. Edge always works fine (I'm still using a 1st gen 8gb).

I had Cingulair pre-merger and dropped calls all the time. I haven't had a single dropped call on my iPhone though.

My wife has Verizon and gets terrible reception. Her phone is always dead because it is looking for a signal.

PST