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I have had Sprint as my carrier for years without any reception issues until now. I bought an iPhone 4 S and in my houseI have dropped calls, 1 to 2 bars. My phone has been tested and it is not the phone it is the carrier. Frustrating.

High frustration... low reception. Sprint service is pathetic in both voice and data. I lose reception while sitting in my living room. Call quality is choppy. Data transfer is lethargic. It takes an average of 70 minutes to send a picture message with 4 lines of text. The CompuServe service on a dial up connection I had 12 years ago is lightning fast compared to Sprint's non existent 3G / 4G service. Customer service is disgusting. Don't even think of going to the Sprint store on Broadway and Craycroft. You'll get nothing but overpaid idiots to aggravate you even more. Huge disappointment. Sprint... the Excuses Network!

I have nearly no reception at home. I drop about 80% of calls even with finicky Airwave hooked up. Two other Android phone models have the same reception at my home. Reception near UMC is iffy (average / below average). Thing is that I have perfect reception in the boonies near Prescott, AZ so I know it is not the phone's fault. I don't understand how Sprint can have such poor reception in a large city. I had better reception with Verizon in Tucson in 1998.

Have lived here for 11 years and been with Sprint the whole time. Only issue I have is having to wait 2 years to upgrade my phone. My service has been what I consider good. A dropped call every once in a while but overall, good.

Been with Sprint 14 yrs last 1 1 / 2 have been the worst. Worst service ever cant even make calls at Sprint store. They sent me Airave did not help at all! No exageration out off 99 droped calls I would say 98 our on my end. Cant get customer service to realize problem. I personally think if other Sprint customers were experinceing the same service I have had to endure that Sprint would have been gone from Tucson. For new customers stay as far away from Sprint as as you can to avoid possible issues that Sprint cant seem to FIX.

I have excellent reception everywhere... .sprint service is inexpensive... customer service is great and my phone is amazing... what more could you ask for? Verizon and AT&T are crazy expensive... .tmobile is being sold and no more improvements are being made on their networks cause its gona be sold to att... .there it is... .SPRINT RULES FOREVER!

Using a 3G / 4G USB card. Only getting 3G here and speeds are.1 Mb / s down and up.

Have had Sprint for approx. 11 years and overall, have had really good reception throughout Tucson and out of state as long I'm in a big city or intertate. I don't get any reception on Mt. Lemmon or farther outside of town on small roads. I have friends with Verizon who do get reception in Summerhaven and around the Mtn. Also dont get any reception on Snowbowl where T-Mobile and Verizon phones do. I have been pretty satisfied with Sprint even with this old phone and customer service has been fine to deal with over the phone. The Sprint store itself is very unhelpful but have had good luck with Sprint kiosks inside Park Place. If you have any problems with billing / phone, you are much better off calling into Sprint or trying an affiliate location. Sprint Corp store only wants to sell as they lose money spending time helping existing customers if a new customer walks out. I use to work for Sprint. Thinking about changing to Verizon as they have nice phones and seem to have a better coverage area but plan pricing is $60 more then what I have with Sprint family plan. Pretty hard to leave Sprint because I haven't had many major issues aside from a few coverage gaps. Clear as a whistle inside town though.

Performance decreased over past two months. Heard it may be due to loss of towers in / near Tucson. Two bars at best in home. Flips to roaming without reason. Even when talking to technical support, they requested another number to use to talk because of poor reception, missed words, dropped calls. Hate Sprint customer service.

I can only complete a phone call if I am outside. Reception improves as I travel away from my home.

I have to go outside our near a window to use my cell at work. I get No Signal to 2 bars depending on if I am near a window or outdoors. I live at Broadway and Pantano and get 5 bars inside my home. From reviews and talking with friends, it appears Verizon offers the best coverage in the Tucson area in general.

I live in an apartment complex and depending on the day, I am / am not able to receive service to my phone. On bad days, I have to leave my apt, walk around the complex until I am able to receive a decent signal. I also run into many dead zones around the Tucson metro area. I'm not talking about the middle of nowhere locations, I'm talking about downtown / middle of Tucson. My contract is finally up next month... looking for a new carrier! :)

i have been with Sprint for 11 years and in tucson for 6 years... I used to have problems around marana hs but no longer. I get good reception everywhere. but I was trying to find another carrier to see if they have any good deals on their models of phones... but given their ratings on this site I think I will stay with sprint. thanks but no thanks.

Can't get reception in the house and usually reception is spotty even walking down the block away from home. Usually have to drive a couple of blocks away from Richey Blvd.to get consistent service. Most of the time when home, I have to set my phone to roam just to use the phone. Switching to another carrier as soon as my contract runs out because Sprint has too many dead zones in the middle of the city.

Afte many years of getting good rececption, the last ten days I can not receive calls in my downtown office. Sprint has no clue. I assume that they are having problems with a tower. But who knows?

We have 2 palm Cento phones in the household, it would be safe to say that 80% of our calls get dropped. Wish we could find a phone or service provider that worked better. My friend has Verizon and her phone doesn't work here either.

Poor reception part way up Burnett. Many lost calls. Sprint map shows okay reception at this point. (I'd hate to see a poor reception area.)

For reasons I don't understand in a business building at this location, the cell phone coverage is very poor forcing the user to go outside to receive or make calls.

Ok reception in this area, but poor in the Craycroft and Broadway area.

Service is not bad everywhere but at home it does not exsist. CS has improved and they even sent me a new repeater device that is suppose to amp the signal. It only works if you are sitting directly in front of the repeater and then you will only get 2 bars. I hear Verizon works well in this area, may have to switch.

I used to get excellent reception with Sprint at home and in the neighborhood. The past 4 months service has really changed. Now my calls break up and drop constantly in the house. Many times, the phone doesn't even ring, it just goes into voice mail. Service is also terrible in the neighborhood. A friend mentioned my problems started about the time they started working on I-10. Anyone else having a problem on the west side (Grant / Silverbell) that started about then?

Horrible reception. Can never complete a conversation without the call dropping at least once---and my house is up on top of the Escalante Ridge! No barriers!

Inside La Cholla airpark my Sprint coverage is hit and miss. Essentially my phone is useless at home.

Many dead spots in this area. Cannot use the phone inside my house, and minimal connectivity on streets. Could not recommend Sprint in pretty much all of Oro Vally.

Guarenteed dropped call within one block of my home. Very spotty reception within the house.

Have had Sprint for over 3 years and get decent coverage around Tucson except at home where you might get one bar. Reported this to Sprint and was told that this area is a known black hole and there was no fix in site.

I always get dropped calls in my house. But reception outside the house is OK.

Every time I go on Ajo and pass thru the Big Cat Mt. area Sprint drops EVERY call... without fail.

Sprints service in this area is suspect. My wife and I are constantly dropping Sprint calls. Thinking of switching to Verizon as they have better coverage out here.

Sprint has horrible reception. Never more than a bar or two in Tucson. Dropped calls one out of about every three calls. Most of the time I will not even get a call it will go directly into my voice mail (which will not alert me for sometimes an hour). Not recommended in this area. Also had the same issues if not worse in Southern California when traveling with the Sprint phone. They also charge for minutes they should not be and its hard to catch it unless you add your bill by hand.

Sprint was quite satifactory (not great) when I lived / worked in the N.E. United States. But, now having moved here to Tucson, I find I am frequently cut off. I also experience a high level of call latency (delay between talkers). I'll probably switch soon, but I do have to concede that Sprint does an OK job with the PCS data side of things. In otherwords, I use my phone as a modem and it works quite well for the price. Lastly, signal strength on my phone seems to not be much of a indication as to how well my call will sound.

Moved here from Chicago where Sprint was great - Tucson has little to no reception all around the city. Constantly dropped calls or could get no signal to begin with.

Dropped calls at home residence; must go into backyard to ensure no dropped calls. All family members (4) experience dead zones along First Ave south of Orange Grove to River Rd, Campbell south of Skyline to River Rd, Skyline east of Orange Grove intersection to Swan. We formerly had Verizon, which was better in terms of reception (but billing issues). My suggestion: if you live in area or frequent the area, look too another provider. We most definitely will once our 2-year subscription ends.

Sprint reception is great all around the Northwest side. Downtown is good. The number of bars gets a bit weaker towards the East Side of Tucson, but I never have dropped calls anywhere in the Tucson area.

Dropped calls everytime at Houghton / Irvington, why at this intersection? Otherwise service is not bad.

practically no reception anywhere in or outside house

Very spotty reception. drops calls in several locations

Varies between 0 and 2 bars. Frequently drops us out unless we go out on the patio. Am thinking about changing. Probably to Verizon.

Frequently dropped calls. Virtually no reception in this area (consistently) over the past year

Worst phone service I've ever had. Drops 1 out of about every 4 calls I make even when I'm perfectly still in my own living room. I average 1 to 3 bars at any given time.

I get no reception inside or outside my home. Service for the next few square miles is very splotchy, I can't place or recieve calls while driving until I reach Swan and Sunrise, or Skyline and Campbell on the other side. Once in town the signal is fine. I was told that my home was in their coverage area when I signed up. Customer service has been very poor, and have offered no solution.

I don't have many complaints about Sprint reception around Tucson. It can get spotty in the foothills (e.g. on Sunrise past Swan), but in town I can always get reception, even inside buildings.