Worse signal with 3Gs??? What's going on??

Have my new 3Gs at work for first time. When I was on the phone in my office The other person could not hear me!! I looked at the signal strength and it was on edge at 1-2 bars and when I walked around would sometimes jump to 3G or get worse. I dont remember having this issues with my 3G. Is the reception worse on the 3Gs? Could I have a bad phone?? Any suggestions or ideas appreciated.

Well, I put up with the worse signal for a long time and then gave in and started reading the forums. Should have done that first like I usually do but I guess I was ********. My problems started like this.
iPhone 3gs came out the same week that our rural area started testing 3g coverage. I waited a bit thinking that my problems were network "testing" related.
I used to get better coverage with 3G phone when I would just use my EDGE coverage and have 3g turned off. So, I started to turn off 3G to see if it would work like before. No luck.
Then I started having times were I would switch from 3g tower to EDGE tower, vice versa, and I would get no data transfer and would have to restart phone. I called Apple and they told me to reset my network settings when it did that. Lame fix to an obvious problem. I don't have time to reset or restart (which btw takes forever with iPhone).
So, to my solution as off now, scotch tape. I searched and read about it and figured, heck, what will it hurt. I went straight to putting two pieces of tape on the back of my SIM card and so far I do have better signal. I will be testing this out when i get home and see what happens. When I went from 3G to 3GS phone my signal went from full bars to one bar. AND I CAN SEE THE NEW TOWER FROM MY BACK PORCH. I'm talking like a quarter of a mile from my house. RIDICULOUS!!!
Hopefully this works out in the long run. If not, I am taking this thing in for a new one. And, if this phone goes to Verizon, I will gladly pay the $350 for my wife and I to cancel our contract and go back to Verizon.

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