Great service. Never had a problem with Sprint. I would recommend them to someone who wants the best service with the best value.

Sprint has great reception at Fashion Island! No problems making / receiving calls, messages, or using data anywhere in the area... indoors or outdoors. Couldn't ask for anything more!

Verizon is absolutely great in Newport Beach and Costa Mesa, as it is almost everywhere else. I really want an iPhone but everyone I've talked to around here says, "The phones great, but the service is not", so I guess I'm stuck with my 3-year-old RAZR on Verizon for now.

I travel all around OC and I have come across only a few pockets of areas (toll road, canyons) where there is no service. Verizon dominates OC in coverage yet, still, I want to change to another carrier because of Verizon's oppressive restrictions on the customers' use of technology, i.e. Bluetooth, ring tones, etc... . I am torn but coverage takes priority... .for now!

I love Verizon's coverage. I rarely loose a call unless I am speaking with some one who has AT&T. I thought of switching because I wanted an I-phone, but had bad experiences with AT&T in the past. So I settled for a Droid (the first model) which is okay. Can't wait for the I-phone through Verizon. Watch out AT&T!

spotty though, some parts will have 5, some parts will have 3, certiain spots will have 0 could be the old phone though

Reception is reasonable sometimes and acceptable outdoors, but oftentimes indoors it is very minimal. Calls are typically not dropped, but I am often told that I'm not coming in clearly.

Many many dropped calls in the OC area. Verizon attributes this to a weak service area. Their weak service area just lost them a customer. Have been with Verizon since they were Airtouch. I am paying the early termination fee and moving to Cingular!

Calls drop every few minutes. Terrible service. Verizon and Sprint seem to work well here, but AT&T is useless.

Can't make phone calls inside, period. I drop at least 50% of calls regardless. It's terrible. Can't wait to switch to Verizon when the Iphone comes out. I never have more then two bars anywhere! It's a complete treat to have two bars.

Many many missed calls. It seems like the signal pulses from no bars to one bar. Cingular when here was much better. AT&T signal SUCKS

I can't get decent reception at home, school or work. It's worthless having a cell phone.

After AT&T bought Cingular forget it. They told me they are not allowed to put in anymore towers because of some restrictions in newport beach. BULL AT&T less bars less places. I could not be more disappointed with their service.

Was very happy with Verizon until I moved to this location. Almost impossible to make calls in the house. Switched to ATT and reception is much better although not as good as the Verizon service was just 2 miles away.

None to poor reception inside and poor reception outside. Lots of missed rings

Trying to decide if I should switch to Cingular... ALOT of drop calls! Driving me crazy... Will recharge battery all night, then on first or second call; showing 1 or 2 bars! Purchased a new battery.. No change... I am changing servers, but do not know which is best.. Any recommendations for Newport Beach area ???

The range of reception is from 0 to 1. The signal ceases altogether indoors. This level of signal strength has persisted for three years now (AT&T before the absorbtion by Cingular)

Makes the extra minutes on my plan useless at home.

I bar if you are lucky. ATT has the worst service Throughout the entire Newport Beach area. I am very lucky to have one bar!

Poor service always. AT&T drives me nuts, every time I try to make a call I have to go close to a window or the call drops because there are no bars. I am switching to Verizon if my work allows me to. I'm going to switch even tough my work pays for the service, rather pay than put up with this scam. AT&T why don't you give the people in this area a reason not to hate you, why instead if blowing $4B trying to buy T-Mobile don't you put up towers so that people have better service?