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Mount Washington has no reception for Sprint, ATT, or Verizon. I've heard that MetroPCS has service up here.

I am so extemely dissapointed with the Sprint signal at home. I have zero bars almost all the time, my calls drop, texting takes forever to send and not to mention the Internet, can't even open up a page!. Ived tried calling Sprint customer service n they provide zero help at all. I think it's time to swap to tmobile, what a shame considering how nice the phones the Sprint carries are.

For two years I've gotten perfect reception in my building with all of my Sprint phones as of last week, I continue dropping calls

I used to get good Sprint 3G and 4G around west Los Angeles, but reception and data speeds have dropped dramatically

I can't get any reception on my Sprint Blackberry for three blocks, including in my own house!

I've had Sprint for many years, mostly because I have a low priced plan that they don't offer anymore. But I have had it. The reception is pretty bad in this area and I could barely make calls at home, if I could get any bars at all, it's choppy, and then it always drops the call. The most awful thing was when I needed to call 911 and COULD NOT GET THROUGH.

I get pretty decent reception with Sprint / Virgin Mobile at my home. Sometimes a little bit of fading and an occasional dropped call. Had AT&T prior to switching to Sprint / Virgin Mobile. AT&T does not work in this part of the neighborhood despite what their maps say. I was never able to use my AT&T cell phone here. Terrible reception, constant fading, dropped calls, when someone would try to call, call would go directly to voicemail, when trying to make a call bars would drop to zero and call would not connect. AT&T is pretty much useless here. A couple of my neighbors have Verizon which appear to work in this neighborhood too.

No signal at all. DEAD ZONE. Service was spotty lately and kept getting worse finally today it cut out completely. Can't place a call.

Sprint service in the residential neighborhood around this intersection this area has been abysmal for the last few months--two bars maximum dropping to ZERO bars and dropped calls. Service used to be fine but reconfiguration of the cell antennas must be the culprit making Sprint almost useless in this area.

Great coverage. Works well in hills and great in sfv. Gets absolutely no service in Griffith Park but no one really does. Always have full bars and great service anywhere west of la brea. Always have service in hollywood hills only problem is sometimes don't get 3g in my house but still have 4 bars of 2g which is fine for calls but slow for data. Miles ahead of AT&T no comparison and better than Verizon in the hills.

Since moving to L.A. I've tried AT&T and Sprint. Sprint's reception in Brentwood is sooo much better than AT&T's! I could never use my cell phone when I was home when I was with AT&T, but I have no such issues with my Sprint phone.

Reception super low and is no more than 2 bars sprint clamed thath they have and exelent Reception I have check more than one phone including palms they dont work

I have Boost Mobile and it's HORRIBLE. I live in Mar Vista and can barely ever get good consistent reception. It keeps cutting out at random areas of the house. I'm thinking of switching over to Metro PCS. Does anyone know how that reception is in the Mar Vista, Marina Del Rey, Venice areas of California (LA area)?

Boost Mobile reception in Mar Vista is HORRIBLE. I have to walk in certain parts of my house to get a reception and even then it still disconnects alot. I'm thinking of switching over from Boost to Metro PCS because they are offering that special for only $30 a month for unlimited calls / texts. Does anyone have feedback about Metro PCS in the Mar Vista / Marina Del Rey area? If I switch over it's got to be better than this reception with Boost, otherwise, I'll just stay with Boost.

AT&T was the ABSOLUTE worse service in West Hollywood. It too got no reception in my house, and I couldn't even drive down Sunset (west-bound) and have a conversation on the phone without multiple disconnections. The service was sooooo bad that I recently switched back to Sprint and picked up a Palm Pre. Being a Mac freak myself, I was really expecting a downgrade as far as phones go. You know what, the Pre is awesome. There are some things I miss about the iPhone, but there are an equal number of things I like more about the Pre. Ohhhh... reception. I have it now; in my house, on the road, no problems! Not only is the coverage WAY better, but my monthly cost is less. AT&T was awesome in other places I've been to (New Jersey, Las Vegas, SF Valley, San Diego), but as far as my hood goes, it SUX!

Great reception. Great coverage all over the Miracle Mile and most of LA. Very few dead spots. Much better than the comments I hear about AT&T... especially the iPhone.

Phone rarely works, need to stand in certain spots in the house to get a couple bars. Call constantly dropped and many times my phone is roaming! Counting down the days til my contact is up! hate it!

I'm on Keniston Ave between Edgewood and 12th. The house I moved into is a Sprint dead zone. Indoors it constantly fluctuates between 0 bars (flat line) and 2, mostly Walking out and north towards Edgewood I get 2 to 3 bars solid and 4th flickers in and out. Walking south towards 12th street, reception lowers back to 1 to 2 bars solid with 3rd bar intermittent.

I never get more then 2 bars. Only works near the windows and outside walls. No reception on lower floor of building.

Dropped calls when driving on LaLoma Rd west of Ave. 64.

Just switched to Sprint after learning they work in the canyons. COuldnt be happier.

Sprint works great everywhere for me. I have a 3G aircard with them as well. THis past month I canceled my home phone and home internet and now am completly wireless, and saving about $80 a month!

I get coverage in most areas. Though I have had a few dropped calls in certain areas when I'm inside, but is MUCH better than when I had an iphone with ATT, that was just a nightmare.

Recently switched from T-Mobile to Sprint. Reception on Sprint is 100X better than it ever was on T-Mobile.

Love my Sprint phone. Seems to work everywhere I go.

Sprint works great for me all over LA. Love their customer service too.

Sprint is the only carrier that works in Mandeville Canyon, and works in almost every other canyon in LA.

Never had any major issues with Sprint in general, especially in the canyons they have great coverage. Great value, great reception. Love my new Rant.

No voice or data service whatsoever when I'm home. If I put my phone in the right spot I can send a text message...

Spotty reception. Little reception inside apartment. Dropped calls outside of the building.

5 bars in Apt. with no reception - deception. Dropped calls are de rigueur. Student at USC shows 5 bars and again reception is spotty. Today I switch to another provider. I' m frustrated with Sprint service.

After 5 years of perfect reception at my house as of three days ago I get zero bars and no cell service. I have a phone that is less than a year old. It works everywhere else in the city, except where I live. This is something that just started. What can one do to regain the cell service that was there for so long?

No coverage whatsoever inside the Millennium Biltmore, especially in the main galleria. Coverage improves only slightly when you move towards the outside walls / doors, but even then calls drop regularly.

2-3 bars, which even when sufficient to complete an outgoing call, isn't sufficient for person called to actually hear me without breaking up. Same problem downtown LA at Fig. and Wilshire office building. Nothing inside; somewhat better outside. Weak reception -- brand new phone much worse than old one -- anyone use Working Assets / Credo, the green company?

Terrible indoors and out. Dropped calls, searching for network messages. Works everywhere else in town it seems, except where I live.

if you go inside a building or house it will drop the call or break up

Dropped calls all the time inside my house. I get better service when I am out of town--Las Vegas hotels much better service than in Los Angeles.

really poor reception in old concrete buildings, ie: 1930's The only really nice thing about Sprint is their software is sooo easy to hack, I have everything under the sun for free, games, apps, gps.

I sometimes can have a complete conco with out dropping it, other times I can slam the phone against the wall! I will be on the phone and it just blanks out on me. the worse part is that it'll try to redial and it says that I'm roaming! agony!

Sprint reception bars don't matter. My wife and I get multiple dropped calls per day!, even when at 5 bars. Multipppple calls striaght to voice mail. We are always having to repeat what we say - sound quality is horrible. Even happens when we call Sprint customer service - their solution was to say that our 1 year old phones were too old - LOL. Dropped calls happen all over Los Angeles / Santa Monica - so it's not a location / tower problem. We are sorry we ever switched to Sprint. The quality of the voice is horrible - sounds like we're talking over tin cans. I borrowed someones phone (Verizon service), and it sounded so clear. We cannot wait to switch back to Verizon.

I can usually get through and carry on a conversation.

This thing was dead. I would recieve voice mail the next day from all the people that would call as soon as drove to work.

The room I was renting had parts of some walls made of concrete. The reception would fade in and out if I moved around. It wasn't easy to find a perfect spot to stay in to have a long, frustration-free conversation.

I get pretty good reception most places in L.A., but almost none at all home in Bel Air. Considering switching carriers to ?

We have Sprint--good quality reception. Unfortunately, the customer service is terrible. Truly, truly terrible. We've had tons of problems with fraud, and Sprint has been awful about resolving our issues. We've wasted countless hours on hold with Sprint, and are frequently disconnected. We have been with Sprint for one year and we still have one more year left on our contract. We'll come back here hoping to find that others have good quality reception on Beachwood (north of Franklin) from another provider. If you do, please post!

We have exceelent service with Srpint. No dropped calls and 5 bars. But I want an iPhone : (( and AT&T had no reception at all when we moved in.

well folks--here is the real lowdown! Sprint does really suck it is a good company good reputation--however when I called and expalined to Sprint that I had poor to zero service at my house I was told--"we do not guarantee that your phone will work in your house" so I say--what company who spends countless millions of dollars worldwide on advertising and maketing to promote their product as the best---well, I do not think it is necessary anymore---i am not blaming the representative with whom I spoke---but I do blame and hold at fault the Sprint company for poor customer relations and miserable service to the consumer

I made the biggest mistake--switched from Nextel to Sprint. With all other carriers in the LA / Mid-Wilshire area I couldn't even get reception in my own home. Nextel was the only company that had clear reception, excellent call quality and few dropped calls. Switched to Sprint ONLY because I liked the features of their phones and I assumed they were on Nextel's network. WRONG move. No one can ever hear me and I can barely hear my callers. Will switch back to Nextel or try Cingular.

There was one occasion when I actually had to make a 911 call but could not do so for about 10 minutes. Thankfully it was a neighborhood watch issue and not a medical emergency. However, this is still far from acceptable. If you're thinking about Sprint for this area (which is mostly residential condos and single family homes), consider the following. There is a school about a block away from here, Short Ave. School. If your child was being followed or needed to call someone for help one day, knowing what my experience was like, are you comfortable trusting Sprint to be the carrier?

Flutters between no bars and 1 bar irrespective of whether you're indoors or outdoors. Approximately 20% of the time, the phone goes stupid trying to look for service and eventually winding up in analog roam mode. The most irritating thing about Sprint service in this area is that incoming calls simply don't come through... about 10-15 minutes after and incoming call was placed, the phone will chime to let me know I have voicemail. I don't see why the phone couldn't have just rung when the call was made so that I could simply answer the phone... as opposed to having to check my messages and call someone back 15 minutes later.

NO RECEPTION at all. Poor reception all over West Hollywood.

No reception. Sometimes I get two bars, but when I pick up the call drops. I can't call out. Sprint told me they were adding towers... I looked at the areas- the added towers wont make a difference!

Sprint... Its no good. I get a bar if I am lucky in my place... out side a bar maybe two. Also, during a conversation at home, a call drops usually more than once... I hate that>>>!<<< Well, it is to be expected... all throughout the city Sprint drops calls... like about two a day... unacceptable. Ever look at these companies profit margins... they make a lot of money, with infrastructure costs to boot,... they need to stop being so cheap and get some decent reception in the Echo Park area... we are paying customers... well, not for long with Sprint... Bye-Bye... You Lose>>>!<<<

Horrible Reception at 1055 Wilshire Blvd. Drops calls all the time. Sprint needs to do something about either the reception, or stop selling Motorola Razors.

Reception was fine for 18 months. Now all of a sudden, I can hear callers just fine, but they complain of popss, crackles, and 'cyborg voice' Incredibly frustrating. Service was fine and now 100% degraded.

Only carrier that I am aware of that works. Customer service stinks.

Pretty much every call gets dropped after a few minutes. Sprint sucks, been living here for more than 2 years and it just gets worse and worse. I can't believe I've actually been paying for service for so long.

Drops calls every few minutes. With another phone is a little better, goes from 0-1 bars to 1-2. I noticed that if you don't hold the phone to ear it's better.

I have lived in this area for the last three years and cannot use my cell phone! It appears from the above comments that I am not alone. This is a densly populated area of Los Angeles and we should be able to get cellphone reception!

Insane. I just moved to this sublet and I get ZERO reception. Occasionally the phone rings when I get a call and if I try to pick up, the call immediately drops. I tried contacting Sprint about it, they said they'd check into the reception and I've not heard a word. It's going to cost me $300 to get out of my contract; it may be worth it. My cell phone is just a paperweight now and no one can get hold of me. Great. BTW, I came from Los Feliz (on Rowena) and service there wasn't much better.

Generally mediocre reception, especially indoors. A lot of dropped calls in my apartment- I'd say on average every 5-10 minutes.

I can talk on the phone for about 1-2min at a time before calls get dropped. Sprint finally admitted there was a problem in the area and let me cancel with no early termination fee.

Update to the Oct 12, 2005 posting: Service has been pretty good since that month of roaming, dropouts, or no reception. My phone gets 4 bars most of the time, but does look for service on rare occasions. Sanyo phones do indeed have the best reception. Two friends on a Sprint plan with new Samsungs have been by, and their phones don't get as strong a signal. My next phone upgrade will remain a Sanyo. A neighbor was frustrated with the Sprint reception problems around here and switched to Cingular, but her service is very spotty. Glad I stuck it out with Sprint. Knock on wood.

Garfield High School Bad reception with Sprint unless you hold the phone over your shoulder with the antenna up like it says in the manual. Missed calls will not show up on the phone. Excellent reception with Verizon everywhere.

I live a few blocks west of Lincoln and Manchester and I have no reception inside my house. I can get maybe 1 bar of choppy conversation outside. I had the same problem with my Cingular service. Maybe I'm in a dead zone!

Complaints about slight breaking up. Can hear clear on my end though.

All the way up Stone Canyon Rd.I get good reception with SPRINT. In fact no other cell company can provide service in this area except SPRINT.

It makes me laugh to see some Sprint employee must have left the note dated Nov. 15, 2005 that says the coverage is "good" in this area. Calls are constantly dropped or won't go through. Reception bars vacillate from 0-1, both north and south of Pico. All in all since the Nextel Merge Sprint coverage in Los Angeles has plummeted--many dropped calls. Coverage used to be OK in LA-I have been with them for 4 years- but now coverage.."hello?" 'Hello?" "did I lose you?"... you get the idea. Customer service are useless liars. Go with Verizon in LA. Friends with Verizon report good service throughout LA area.

I have horrible reception where I live, and often lose calls. I'm considering moving to either Cingular or Verizon.

I always have PERFECT reception here at home. Almost perfect reception all over LA County. I took the Amtrak train up to Santa Barbara, had a connected call the entire time (except for under the tunnel of course.) Same with service on the train all the way to San Diego. Sprint has excellent coverage in Southern California.

At my house off Museum Drive, almost no coverage - my phone doesn't even get analog roam, my gf's roams only while on the back porch.

I live in Ktown, Sprint sucks inside my apt. All calls are dropped within 2 minutes or less. My phone roams frequently and sucks the life out of the battery. Outside my apt, reception is better but still poor - calls are about 3-5 minutes until I hit a dead zone. I'm switching soon, though from reading all the complaints, I'm not sure which carrier can give me just one more bar and at least 10 minutes of talk - or at least enough time to order a pizza.

Terrible or no reception the last two weeks. Often roaming, dropped calls, out of range, or phone doesn't ring. Can't even dial *2 to call Sprint. Need to use a landline. Each Sprint tech gives a different explanation, some plain idiotic. A major adjustment had to have been made recently since reception was excellent in this location the past 2 yrs. A neighbor said Sprint told her that since the Sprint / Nextel merger, there has been reception and coverage problems in So Cal. Coverage still seems fine everywhere else except where I live. Been with Sprint for 8 yrs but I am looking to switch.

Sometimes get one bar within my condo. Often can only get Digital Roaming ( Xtra cost, of course)... ..and this is one block away from the Sprint store. I tell them that reception within a block of their store sucks... .and they don't believe me.

All calls dropped when heading north on Crescent Heights Blvd. at Sunset Blvd. Sprint states this is not a problem area but I checked the area on several different Sprint customer's phones. This is a fairly new problem area. Seems Sprint cut down on towers negatively effecting coverage.

All calls drop as passing through Park LaBrea apartment complex on Hauser Street. A few years ago this was a common problem. For about the last two years there was reception in this area. Now for about three months all calls are dropped. Sprint insists there is no problem in this area.

Reception bars on phone jump from 3 to zero to 1 to 2 to zero and so on constantly. Almost all calls either don't connect "out of range" or if connected are dropped. Reception used to be fine in this area. Sprint "customer care" pretends to "reconfigure the software" when complaints are called in which obviously does not fix the problem

My wife and I had Verizon and we could barely get calls in our house, halfway up Beachwwod, with many droped calls or straight to voicemail. Tried T-Mobile - same or worse. Tried Sprint! and got pretty good reception! - Phone works all over our house, and my wife and I talked all the way to her work, where previously she allways hit a dead spot on the Verizon network that droped her calls. If you live in the Hollywood Hills / Beachwood Canyon, then Sprint is the phone service to get. I even get a good internet connection on my phone now!

SprintPCS towers are in the Beachwood Canyon hills. Excellent Reception. No dropped calls.

I have strong signal, but when I answer the phone, I get a "network signal faded" screen and the call cuts off. Everyone in my building has the same problem.

Used Cingular when I first arrived and the reception was not very good in any dorm or classroom. I asked around and the GSM services (Cingular, T-Mobile) don't seem to work as well on campus. I changed to Sprint and I get at least 2 bars in most sections of the campus. Verizon also works well.

No reception at home (off Silverlake Blvd.near resevoir). No reception at my last house (above Altadena Dr). Drops in Old Town Pasadena, Beverly Blvd.near Larchmont, basically everywhere I go. Works great at the SPrint store (where I spend A LOT of time waiting for them to let me cancel due to non-coverage).

Entire Park La Brea area is troublesome for Sprint. lucky to get two bars anywhere, and if you are indoors phone will lose network all the time.

Almost never get dropped calls, rarely have reception problems in the 2 years with my phone and service. I drove from Portland to LA on 2 occasions and never lost reception. Inside malls... connection takes longer but is still acceptable. Has worked all over LA and even at the beach. LOVE IT... IMA GEEK! No service on 7th and fig downtown!

Never get reception in the mid-wilshire area, park labrea, 3rd street, 6th street from fairfax to occidental.

I get pretty decent reception at home, close to where the 2 fwy becomes Glendale. I get no recepion by the silver lake resevour or on Rowena near the "coffee table" Most areas of Los Angeles I can get a decent reception. I like you, do you like me?

Sometimes my phone will show 1 bar, but at other times it will show 2, 3, or 4 bars. It is not consistent. Irregardless of the number of bars showing, reception service is extremely poor all over my house lot and nearby neighbors. Scratchy sound; dropped calls, etc. Sometimes, my phone will not ring at all, but will beep me later to notify me that voicemails have been left (hours ago). Occasionally, while my phone is idle, it will "beep" and a "No Signal" message will appear on the display. I habitually keep my phone switched off while at home - and I must get in my car and drive out of my area to a market parking lot in order to retrieve saved messages and to make and receive calls. In contrast, I've had friends serving in Iraq call me from their cell phones onto my hard-wired home phone... sounding clear as a bell.

I switched from AT&T to Sprint about two years ago and it revolutionized my cell phone use. AT&T was, compared to Sprint, a rookie company in the field of wireless technology. Sprint has figured it out because I have very few dropped calls, I never have breakup or static on any of my calls and I get reception almost EVERYWHERE! The only place I don't is in the silver lake hills but still, even there it's rare that I don't have at least 2 bars! Never had Verizon but heard they were running a close second.

ERGOLAD: My tests with Sprint so far have show that their signal strength is weak to non-existent. However, when a signal is found, unlike Cingular, it proves to be more consistent. I've noticed that a signal of 1 bar on this particular model of phone is no indication of any kind of reliable signal. Throughout the rest of LA coverage has proven to be fairly good. Plan Prices are OK but the lack of a cost effective forwarding option to cover the hole here in service make Sprint impractical for me. Discussions with Sprint support and technicians that service Silver Lake report that this is a known low coverage area in the network and there are no current plans to improve it.

Sprint updated my phones software and PLR / PRL whatever that meant... and still no signal! According to them it is a terrain issue. Hmmm streets and houses like any other part of LA! A switch of service is pending. I have to find out what tower my phone is pinging to for the quality ROAM service that takes over.

I believe there is a cell site on top of the roof of my office building. I get reception in the elevators all the way down to the 2nd floor garage. Full Bars in the building as well.

Sprint has got the Silver Lake area covered. There customer service has improved so much over the past two years. They are the only company besides Verizon that use CDMA (instead of the primative GSM system) in the PCS frequency. I get the clearest calls, it sounds like im using a land line phone. This company is so advanced in terms of technology. They have the fastest internet on your phone. And I can connect my phone to my computer using a cable I bought and get FREE High Speed wireless internet acces while im traveling! All the spots that my friends say there is no service, Sprint has got it. The ONLY place there is no service is around the Silver Lake Reservoir. I called them to report it and they said they are working to get coverage there. The lady said that on her computer it says they are running into community and city property issues to install cell phone tower right next to the Reservoir.

No reception in this area (1 bar at best). Unfortunately I live here. I sitched to Verzon and it's a little better but still only 2 bars and it loses reception farther inside my building.

Sprint really have very bad reception and i think sprint really sucks sometimes cuz even when the phone is on and it has two bars, the phone doesn't ring at all.

I canceled AT&T because they always dropped and had rude customer service. I had Verizon for 2 years and they were okay until I moved a block away and couldn't get service in my building. I switched to Sprint and it was unbelievable that I could even talk deep in my garage. A tower must be on top of my condo.

Coverage is terrible in this area, especially inside buildings. Sprint has told me they don't have good coverage and are not planning any new towers in this area. Do not get Sprint if you live near the intersection above.

Able to make call from 3rd floor apartment. Drastic improvement over AT&T TDMA service. T-Mobile / Cingular has problems with service in my apartment. Verizon works well.

I hate to admit this since I am sick of Sprint PCS customer service and ready to switch. While I am testing Cingular, Nextel at this location and Sprint PCS has the best reception.

Network is constantly going in and out with the handset resting. Just a horrible reception.

Service hardly works at home. Constantly going in and out while standing still. Lots of problems for carriers here due to the airport being a couple miles away. Just a horrible reception.

I think they installed a new tower or something because I now get reception in all parts of my apartment building.