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I had Verizon but switched over to Spring because I saw that they had good reviews in this page and would save me some money. Well, all I can say is Sprint service is horrible. The data service is horrible in that it's super slow averaging about 200 kbps DL rather than the 600 kbps that they say most data users receives. I made several complaints and the latest one they said that the manager was going to call me back and it has been since 2 days and no call at all. I'm going to continue to call them until they let me off my contract or the service is up to advertised.

I've always gotten very good reception around the UCSB / Isla Vista / Ellwood / Goleta area. My signal fades in a few parts of downtown Santa Barbara and anywhere I've been more than a few hundred yards aways from the 101 in Montecito and Summerland, as well as in some of the larger / heavier buildings at UCSB. Recently, I've been experiencing 'network busy' signals but I think it's a problem with my phone. It's quite old (more than 4 years) and started to power itself off randomly around the same time the busy signals started. Despite the excellent signal reception I've received, I will most likely be leaving Sprint soon due to their unwillingness to extend the same rebates on a new phone to me as they advertise to new customers. (Effectively, it would cost me an exra $50 to get a new phone other than their bottom-of-line model AND keep my phone number. They're offering some models with a $200 rebate on new line installations but the same phones are discounted only $150 as an upgrade to an existing line)