Chicago sucks too. 3 bars everywhere if you're downtown, northeast around lincoln park/lakeview, or west around old town or wicker park. So...anywhere you'd actually want to hang. I usually get a few brief drop outs on the bus. It's still not unbearable by any means, it's just annoying knowing the speed isn't where it could be.
I didn't know you could talk and play games at the same time. I don't like phones though, so my conversations are usually brief, logistics type shit. That might have something to do with bad reception causing me to always have to repeat myself.