Why does my iPhone 3GS drop service?

My iPhone 3GS just randomly says no service is there anyway me or apple can fix this?

Heck, my i5 does that from time to time!
If you don't want to go thru the whole reboot or turn off/turn on brouhaha, I've had some success putting it in Airplane Mode and back out. When you turn AM off it will attempt to resync with the carrier and that usually clears up the lack of connection.

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    PancakeMo wrote:
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