I'm in the same boat as you. The New York service is terrible. I disable 3G just so I can make phone calls. The majority of the time it get little to no recepti

I'm in the same boat as you. The New York service is terrible. I disable 3G just so I can make phone calls. The majority of the time it get little to no reception for me, even in an open area. I would rather use the slightly slower edge network and enjoy battery life and reception. I remember why I switched to Verizon 4 or 5 years back now. GPS drops out nearly as frequently as my service. God forbid you go to a populous area. I was at shea stadium last week for a concert. Didnt have reception the entire show. Could couldnt make calls, send texts or use the internet. I also found the phone trying so hard to keep up a connection that my battery went from 80% to completely dead in 4 hrs. I'm confident apple will get the dodgy software bugs fixed in the next few months. As for AT&T... I'm not expecting much from them anytime soon.