I had Cingular for over 5 years and it has the WORST service here in Jersey. Constant dropped calls. I finally switched to Verizon, and it's perfect since August. Never one dropped call. Overall, Verizon is known for the best service, and T-moble and Cingular for all the minutes. But what good are those minutes if you can't keep a phone call b/c it keeps getting dropped? This is just MHO.