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Only a couple of times reduced to 1bar but haven't lost complete coverage so far.

We've been using Cingular in this house for about two years now and it's had great coverage! A roomate moved out about a month ago who used Sprint and got pretty bad reception

I love Sprint. Everyone on base has Cingular and I had problems with them in the past. I receieved a $3,000 never paid bill from them while my husband was deployed to Iraq. Turns out when we turned off our service with them, they gave our numbers to someone else and kept billing us. Only we had moved and never got the bill. They sent us to a creditor and now my husband's credit is marked due to their error. However, Sprint is awesome. Works all over the base, even Rattlesnake Canyon where all of my friends on Cingular get cut out or dropped. Get great service inside all work buildings even at the range in the pits where everyone else gets nothing. Great customer service over the phone, however Oceanside customer service in store is terrible. Manager Grant over at the Sprint store off the 78 near Walmart has the worst customer service I have ever seen. He likes to lie to customers, walk away and talk about them loud enough so they can hear it, and then proceed to yell, curse, and fight with the customer once they confront him about his rudeness. I would still reccomend Sprint to anyone just don't buy from the store, go online or over the phone. They will not pressure you those ways since they are not making commission off of you.

Excellent reception in Northern Oceanside and South Camp Pendleton. 5 bars indoors inside apartment. Very good reception even inside three story building at Oceanside High.

Sign in the parking lot of 24 Hour Fitness says "future site of T-Mobile tower" to be built on roof. Sounds good for T-Mobile, and maybe AT&T next year.

Had T-Mobile with 1-2 bars and Edge. Been on Verizon for about a month. Nothing but 3G and no dropped calls anywhere in house.

Last month or so we have been getting 3 bars and sometime 4. Before that 0-1 here.

At the intersection of Rancho Del Oro and 76, the reception is always very good. We live on the side of a hill just south of 76 in the Mission Point area and the reception is almost always poor there (0 to 2 bars).

I have tried about 8 to 9 different phones. Most of them recieve about the same signal. Except for the Smartphones (Motorola Mpx200, Mpx220 and Audiovox 5600). Currently using Ericsson T39m... lets see if external antenna helps.

AT&T works reasonably well in most areas of Oceanside but they need some more cell towers to fill in soft spots of coverage around Douglas and North River road. There was a cell tower potential site sign near the intersection of Calle Montecito and North River Rd.and if / when it gets built would help out coverage tremendously, if AT&T sites an antenna farm there.