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Never have more than 2 bars when inside house. Phone works fine making calls that charge your minutes. When using cell to cell or other free minutes, then no bars present and call is dropped. I watch the signal go from Sprint to Roam just walking from the kitchen into the den. This is insane, we (Maricopa) have the worst of everything here. Phone works just fine outside of the city. Sprint says they have a tower in Maricopa, yah right, which Maricopa? Maricopa CA? cause it aint doing squat in Maricopa AZ! Oh yeah, by the way, this website won't even take my zip code, it says it is not a valid zip. Really?

I have lived in Maricopa since 2004 and have never had any coverage problems. Never a call dropped or roaming. Have had a Sanyo M1, Treo 800w, and now the HTC EVO.

I only get reliable reception in the front room of the house. I can be anywhere else in the house and without moving go from full bars to digital roam to no service. If I walk from my front room to the kitchen or through to my home office, there is a 78.3% chance that the call will drop. That's just not cool.

Garbled, constantly dropped calls outside. NOTHING inside.

Coverage is better than it was before when I was here in march, but it still is pretty pathetic. Got 3-5 bars in my house in Cantara village, like 2 bars at the pool. Poor signal outside and around Harrah's and its non existant indoors.

Reception in this area with Sprint has improved over the years. East side of Rancho El Dorado is fairly weak, but other than that, Maricopa seems to be covered pretty well. Make sure you pick a plan with roaming included and then set your phone for Automatic roam (it doesn't come this way). The calls are not great, but are pretty good. I've found that the model of phone that you select plays a big role. I've found that the Samsung A900 and LG Fusic do a great job. Whereas a relative with Qwest (which uses Sprint's service) and a Motorola V710 has a harder time and their calls are more staticky.