I too am fed up with Sprint in Nogales. It is not like the old days. On the Nextel side you have to call out 3 times just to connect properly. Sprint is obviously causing this trying to get people to switch from Nextel to Sprint. On Sprint Cdma side like comments above my service has several dead spots now in Nogales and Rio Rico, whats funny Sprint Service is horrible inside of Sprint store on mariposa when they have thier airwave off. No service in hardly any store here. Sprint has stated they are performing network upgrades, they have said this for 2 years now. I have had 2 phones on Nextel and Wifes on the Sprint side for 12 years. Sprint sayes they are shutting down Nextel now. Good I will not go to Sprint side I will go to Verizon instead I think they have 20 towers here compared to Sprints 2.

In Nogales and Rio Rico, Sprint has certainly went down hill here. The service is notably worse in most of Nogales. No longer is it a reliable source of communications. I pay $145 a month only to get service that goes in and out even under one of their towers. They have replaced my black berry 4 times saying its the phone. I used my position in the legal field to dig deeper. I found out Sprint has pulled equipment from 3 locally owned sites and sold their Nextel assets to TowerCorp in Irvin, Ca. Sprint only has one tower in 85621 zip now located on Crawford hill. This is leased from tower corp. The closest tower to this one is in 85648 zip the Rio Rico location is only 1xrtt the low end of 3g. Adding to sprints troubles and overloading is Virgin Mobile, Boost CDMA, trac, net 10 and a couple of other prepaid are all sharing the same equipment. What really got to me is when I found out Sprint contract customers are not prioritize on data side here. I presented and faxed my findings to sprints legal department and they let me out of my contract of 8 phones. The Nogales Sprint store has lied several times to me over the years, con me into new phones, convinced me to get a Sprint airwave, talked me into a Sprint home line etc. I have moved to a GSM carrier and no longer have any issues.

ATT has confirmed they have switched to a single "Super" tower in Nogales. The Tower is located at I19 and Mariposa west. Most of downtown Nogales is in the blind spot of this tower. Rio Rico has suffered also they now feed off of the I19 exit 34 tubac site. If you insist on ATT in Nogales you need to have "Viva" Mexico plan for coverage in Nogales Downtown. Meadow Hills Subdivision, Visita Del Ciero and all surrounding high spots should fair well with new set up however, Rio Rico and Vista del Ciero have experienced loss in signal due to land owner conflict on Mt Benidict. Rio Rico Residents in low lying areas will find data in and out because phones will try to switch between Patagonia Tower and Tubac. ATT sayes new coverage is complete that my only option is to switch to the "Viva" Mexico plan but I never go there. To ATT's Credit they did let me out of my contract with no termination fee. They also mentioned that no 3G or 4G will come to Nogales any time soon because there is no Fiber Backhaul for them at current tower site on Mariposa.

AT home I can sit in the same spot and go from 5 bars to none in seconds. Then I get put in roam. I'm a truck driver and have driven in all 48 contiguous states and have had problems with sprints reception in all of them. Including large cities such as Atlanta, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix,Dallas etc,etc I;m currently looking for a new service provider.