<p>Hey, for anyone who's at UCLA now, what cell phone carrier do you use and how's the reception with it? I know that when I was there I couldn't get any reception inside the materials science building w/ my Cingular service, but it seemed to work fine everywhere else.</p>
<p>I have Verizon. I worked really well at the beginngin of the year, but it seems to have gotten worse. In the dorms it drops calls all the time, on campus its pretty good.</p>
<p>I'm using T-Mobile. Reception isn't that great indoors. I usually get 3/7 "bars" when I'm sitting at my desk in De Neve, and I have to go to the window to get good reception. Outside I usually get 7/7 bars on campus, in Westwood and downtown LA. When I went to NorCal, the reception was more sparse; I had 7/7 bars on the Stanford campus, but only 1/7 bars on the UCB campus. The only reason I didn't pick Verizon was because there wasn't a Verizon retailer in Westwood, while there was a T-Mobile one within walking distance.</p>
<p>type-o, get it upgraded. i use verizon and it has no problems until like last month i got a ton of drop calls, so i went to a verizon store to get it upgraded and now it works fine. verizon supposedly has a monopoly over good connection at ucla.</p>
<p>I was thinking of going t-mobile so I could go to one of those shady asian retailers and get a really really good deal on a nice phone w/ mp3 + PDA capabilities so I wouldn't need to carry around an mp3 player.</p>
<p>Oh I didn't know you can get it upgraded. Is it free?</p>
<p>mine was free. i think it was because i've had my cell phone for under a year.</p>
<p>alright i've had mine since August... thanks</p>