trying to switch to Credo. Sprint has never worked well in my apartment in Noe Valley. Now I am trying out the Hero HTC with Credo and it works fine. But the phone is driving me crazy with all of it's apps. and my hands are too big for the tiny touch key board! But sound is very clear.

If i'm lucky, i'll get one or two bars of reception on campus. This is the one place where I need a phone to work ALL the time for me, but it doesn't. Even my ATT phone had very crappy reception. Only T-Mobile and Verizon had reception that was good.

I've been working around here for about a month now. I can receive calls for the most part, but sometimes my reception is terrible and I miss calls. Txt messages go through regardless. Sometimes it takes a minute for service to kick in. Overall the phone is a problem in itself. Add the reception issue and this experience becomes irritating enough to consider swictching coverage.

Consistently no reception within the Presidio around the Washington Blvd.area. Occasionally I can send or receive a text at home, but calls are impossible unless I leave the Presidio to the south or walk about a half mile north.

Ironic that coverage always drops for me at this intersection... there is a Sprint Store across the street. But never fails, reception here sucks.

Reception just got horrible over the last week or so. Sprint said they fixed the antenna but it doesn't seem to have any change. I used to get 3-4 bars in my house now I get 1 bar with 95% of my calls being dropped!

I can connect one in three or four calls if I stand near the window. Data is even more spotty.

I have Working Assets (now Credo) which uses the Sprint network. I have great reception and have had good results all over the Bay Area.

I have about 2 square feet in my home in which I can use my phone. If I sit back or sneeze, the call's history. Also, I see people talking on their phones in places where I have no reception, all the time. Also, Sprint to Sprint calls sound like I'm talking through a tin cup.

I always have good service in the city. When it comes to customer service, they are average. The main thing is I dont get dropped calls like I used to on ATT. I have thrown two phones out of the car window when I had ATT, it was getting too expensive to have my calls dropped every 5 minutes. Waiting for the Palm Pre and staying with ATT. If Verizon had the Iphone, I would move to them.

Get 4 Bars in apartment consistently. Good reception at least in the downtown area.

1 in 4 calls gets dropped but can reconnect without difficulty. Reception generally pretty good in SF but dropped calls is a frequent annoyance with Sprint.

No reception at all in my apartment, or at best calls are dropped after a few moments. Reception is patchy on 20th between Guerrero and Dolores, and even on Guerrero between 19th and 20th. There's no reason I should have to walk a block and a half to have an uninterrupted conversation, without being dropped or cut off. Had a Sanyo phone prior to the Blackberry, and had similar problems.

Pretty useless inside my ground floor apartment

Sprint has pretty good reception in most places around the city, especially in Downtown (mostly 4 or 5 bars). Few low reception spots, overall where I use it, it works great.

overall good reception in the upper noe valley.

overall service is excellent, especially compared to competitors (ATT, T-Mobile in particular)... too bad the Iphone doesn't work on CDMA networks! I will have some distortion on some calls but usually because of trees / foliage. EVDO is decent too. I'd recommend Sprint if you are in San Francisco. Verizon is #2.

Service in my apartment (Castro and Cesar Chavez) sucks. Only two rooms that even have a chance, and these still frequently drop. Usually have to stand in one spot near window where bars fluctuate rapidly between one and three, and not move at all. Have to go outside for important or uninterrupted phone calls. Also basically no service for a few blocks on Diamond Heights. Had the phone "updated" but this helped not at all. Most of the rest of Noe Valley and the city are usually okay, but reception is often bad, so that I have to ask people to repeat themselves.

Up at the top of the hill on the west side. Reception is really bad on the east side of my condo, and slightly better on the west. I drop calls about 50% of the time. The only thing that seams to work is to stand on the back deck and not move (west facing deck). Then there are just periods of incomprehension rather than altogether disconnecting. I'd switch carriers in a heartbeat if there was one that worked better.

Calls all ways dropped sound is choppy at best.

reception on this free Sprint Motorola phone is always good. but on the other brand new Cingular phone in same location its always bad. how is that possible?

Data Reception was excellent for the first few months of operation last year, but since the first of the year I have not been able to stream my favorite public radio stations and TV news. Constant "insufficient Bandwidth" messages.

I can't talk in my own home without dropping a call. I've called Sprint, and they cannot do anything to help me. I may have to switch to another provider (I've had Sprint since 1998!).

I get five bars all the time in our basement apartment.

I have had Sprint for over 10 years now. About 4 months ago, my phone started dropping every call. I got so fed up with it, that I considered changing services. I called Sprint and they looked up my account. They said that they could update my telephone. I called back in a half hour and they gave me a number to call. My phone was updated and has NOT dropped a call ever since. I'm keeping my Sprint. I didn't even know that you could have your phone updated. If your phone is dropping calls, call customer service and Sprint will help you out.

Fine reception all the time.

Haven't had any reception problems. Voicemails and text messages always get to me straight away. Use in other parts of the city have been problem-free, too. In sum, drama free.

It's not bad compared to where I used to live. I can always make and recieve calls. I'm better at the front of the house than in the back. Sometimes I will get 4 bars, but mostly I get a solid 3. I can hear callers fine, but many people tell me that I fade in and out. Customer Service SUCKS - they told me they cannot guarantee service INSIDE a structure. Are you serious? My contract is almost up and I may stick with them seeing that Cingular GSM is getting poor ratings and Verizon refuses to offer 7PM nights.

I get pretty good reception everywhere... except my home / office. Drives me nuts. I get better recption at the top of the Summit Six chair in Tahoe than at the top of Potrero Hill. I was ready to switch, but after reading some comments, hard to decide. If I worked anywhere else, I'd stick with Sprint for sure.

I been with Sprint for 4 years now without problems...

Sprint customer service sucks. Unfortunately, I get good coverage, otherwise I'd change. After reading this site, I'm a little weary of other providers for my neighborhood

I have had Sprint PCS and experience excellent coverage in the Bay Area. It does fade when you get up into the mountains, or off the major roads in the wine country, but very few complaints about dropped calls or missing coverage in my day-to-day life, even indoors - phone even works in many elevators! Was thinking of switching to a GSM carrier for better phone selection, but having second thoughts after reading the reviews here.

I thought I had REALLY bad service with Sprint until I read all the other reviews of other services! Maybe I'll stick to Sprint. 95% or more of the time I have no problem making or getting calls and they sound good. It's that the dead spots are just plain weird. Within 10 feet of any BART station (above ground within 10 feet) I get no coverage or I'm on analog roam. There are also many other odd spots like that where I get nothing or analog roam and if I step 10 feet away I get full digital. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to where the spots are. There are several downtown. Also I get pretty much 0 coverage outside of cities. If I'm on the freeway at all, or in wine country anywhere, I get nothing or analog roam. I stood out in the middle of the road once to make a call from a winery. But, the phone works great in LA and Honolulu. It's strange. Customer service is pretty good. No complaints. Maybe I'll stick with Sprint. If the place I'm standing is dead at least I can walk 10 feet and get a signal!

Sprint really sucks in a lot of places. It has dead spots all over the city and not just in the hilly areas. I would absolutley not recommend them -- find a carrier that sucks less (they all suck).

I have had Sprint PCs for almost 2 years and every single time I an anywhere around Pine Street, I drop calls (no bars) Going up Leavenworth, turing left onto Pine St. it drops. Going down Laguna to California to Gough turning right heading down to Pine St, drop calls from California all the way to Geary St. Live on Laguna and have poor reception in my apartment, in the garage, in the lobby. Also, when coming across the Bay Bridge, drop calls if I am on the right hand side of the Upper Deck past the tunnel but usually can hold onto the calls if on the left hand side of the Upper Deck. Lower Deck is sketchy. Seems like East Bay coverage is better than SF overall, but haven't tried all over the East Bay.

The Sprint guys told me there is an antenna above (or just behind) the Castro Theatre. I get great coverage in the neighborhood. I live with 3 people who also have Sprint with Samsung and LG phones: they get 4 bars at all times. A neighbor had T-Mo and he used to get in the street to make a phone call! He is now with Cingular. I get perfect coverage all over the City and in Palo Alto, where I commute every day. Sprint may not be the sexiest carrier, but they have very good coverage.

I haven't yet found an area in San Francisco where my Spring mobile phone doesn't work.

Horrible. If I get a signal, the calls often cut off in the middle of the call randomly. I'm looking for a better carrier.

I've had Sprint for over 7 years and have never had a dropped call. The reception at this location has always been perfect. I've rarely had any reception difficulties in the city, East Bay or on the Peninsula. I'm very satisified with Sprint.

Switched to Sprint from Verizon, where I could not make calls from home or in the Castro district. Sprint has worked well for me in most of the city. I also commute to Walnut Creek each day, and reception is good the entire route.

Sprint has been steadily getting better in San Francisco, and I've had them for 4 years now. Still the occasional dropped call from my house in TI, otherwise no complaints at all.

Good reception all over the neighborhood!

Can rarely make / receive any calls on this part of the island. The only hope is to do so outside or by walking around the island till you find a place where the signal is favorable. Unfortunately, Sprint seems wholly unaware of Treasure Island's existance when you try to call and find out whether they have any plans for any towers on either Treasure Island or Yerba Buena Island at any point. Unfortunately, it seems most carriers are not much better on Treasure Island...

Sprint used to work well all over my home and in most of S.F. Now I routinely get several bars of reception but when I try to place a call I get "No Service". I also get dropped in the middle of calls. Worse, it seems that the Treo does not take well to these "No Service" problems: my phone freezes most of the time a call drops and occasionally crashes. This all seems to have gotten worse in the last month or two. I wonder if it has something to do with the Sprint / Nextel merger?

Very intermittent service with Sprint at this location. Usually no connection, and if you are lucky enough to get one or two bars, they disappear either before your call goes through, or within the first 30 seconds of the call. This means you really can't take advantage of Sprint's "free included nationwide long distance calling feature" because you can't make any calls from home. Also, no calls ever come through to this location, and people have shown me (on their own phones' call logs) that they have called, but either have gotten no voicemail or a recording that there is no service (as if I have cancelled my service). Two years ago, Sprint promised there would be new towers and improved service in this area within a year, but their technicians now say (two years later) that there are NO PLANS TO BUILD ANY NEW TOWERS IN THE NEAR FUTURE. The problem lies foremost with Sprint (not building more towers and / or repeaters) and possibly the City of San Francisco (for not allowing construction of more towers / repeaters).

Much than Cellular (which is what I had before) Same as Verizon

Always have great reception in my area. I have had Sprint for 8 years. On Upper Market near the top, calls are always dropped or no service. On the 600 block of Corbett St. there is one bar at most that fades in and out. You must stand perfectly still to make or receive a call -- even though I am looking straight out at the whole eastern half of the city.

This part of nob hill is nearly a dead zone for Sprint PCS, at least for my Treo 650 and my other Sprint phone. I'm not exactly sure why, but it is nearly impossible to get reception in this entire square block. Otherwise, I've had very poor reception overall with my Sprint phone in SF.

2 bars in front of house and less in backside of house (further away from Diamond Heights Blvd). 0-1 bar in Diamond Heights Safeway.

Great reception at home and around the neighborhood.

I have been hearing nightmares about other carriers. I have had Srpint for 5 years. I have ugraded my phone on every contract renewal date. Hate to say this in front of those having problems, but I have never, repeat never had a dropped call in 5 years. Reception is always available regardless of my location. Sprint has been and continues to be a great experience. Good luck.

I use all over the city. Always works, except on certain parts of the Bay Bridge.

I have no problems inside my 2nd story apartment and haven't had a dropped call yet. About a year ago I put a reception booser on my battery that has helped.

i get great reception all through san fran with sprint, but since I have been in NYC for the last few weeks my phone gets horrid reception, but I think it could possibly be because my phone is old and battered. this phone has gone through a lot and made it with no fuss... ..i like Samsung phones a lot... .and even though Sprint has bad customer service, I like thier service, but still tempted to switch. the only thing is that Verizon requires a deposit of 400$ from me to get service... ... .so I rather stick with Sprint and not have to pay that altho I do like Verizon phones better.

Phone cuts out in the middle of coverstations even when standing perfectly still.

in bernal heights, my reception is very good except it consistently cuts out on york street just before holladay. reception is poor in twin peaks, midtown terrace (probably due to the tower). dropped calls occasionally occur on 280 north just north of daly city. overall, I have been satisfied with Sprint service around the bay area.

In buildings I need to stand outside.

Very poor reception. It's difficult to have a conversation and I have to continually ask the other person to repeat what they've just said.

Signal constantly drops. Very poor reception in my home. So bad that I can't actually talk to anyone. Good reception at work and fine in the city and on the freeways.

Sprint reception and transmission has been quite reliable at this location and generally good around town. Calls get dropped occassionally along Dolores south from 19th to 30th. All in all, I'm reasonably pleased with Sprint both in the Bay Area and travelling nationally. I've tried many services and they all have weaknessess; Sprint seems pretty good. The current worst in this area is AT&T GSM. (Their analog service was terrific but expensive.)

Sprint PCS drops calls from Eureka Valley / Upper Castro and south through Diamond Heights and Glen Park. They really need to beef up reception in San Francisco. As a result, I need a new carrier because that is my commute route.

Reception fades in and out and calls are lost when I walk around my house. Very unreliable service.

Usually don't have any problems with Sprint in the city.

I have had Cingular, T-Mobile. AT&T (the worst), Nextel, Verizon (can you hear me? NO) and now I have Sprint PCS. Pretty much I've had a taste of all the phone carriers. So far Sprint has the BEST reception out of all of these carriers. I thought Verizon has the best network? I thought wrong... What is this "Can you hear me now?" They can hear me if I have tons of dropped calls from Verizon. AT&T? Oh man the worst. All I can say is Thank you Cingular for taking over. But all I can say is that Sprint has the best reception out of all.

Reception works at one end of the apartment, but not the other. I live at Corona Heights and face out over Eureka Valley, Twin Peaks and Sutro Tower.

sprint service seems generally pretty good travelling all around the city for me and my old phone sph-200. it's perfect in my apartment at taraval / 40th. i'm disappointed to hear bad reviews of other carriers in my area, because i want to switch carriers to get a better deal and a new phone.

As good as all the others I've tried (T-mobile, AT&T TDMA, Cingular)

In general, Sprint's reception is not very good at Bernal Heights. Note that your calls will be disconnected at the corner of Cortland and Mission.