I live near Leigh ave and Stokes and my Sprint reception is AWFUL. The AWFUL service stretches from Stokes (St. Elizabeth) to Fruitdale as well as Curci and Meridian. Not sure if it is the LG Creek Trail, but my services is awful with SPrint. :(

goes out of service all the time! full bars then drop to 1 then 0 ?!??! and coverage map says PERFECT

I get great reception and have only had 1 or 2 dropped calls in 2 years. Great reception. Great prices.

Descent coverage in house. ~ usually drop once per month or two at home.

unfortunately I only get bad service at home, the reported area. everywhere else around here has been good. maybe there's something in my apt bld's building materials blocking signals... .

Very weak reception inside my home my cell phone is useless I get less than 1 bar or my cell goes into roam mode.Sprint is bad I am glad this is my last month of contract with them.Worst customer service in the world

GREAT, I always have 7 out of 7 bars, inside my house, at school, in the gym, everywhere. And since three years ago, the new EVDO network works seamlessly across the area. I love Sprint!

In coverage area but get very poor reception. Approx 1.5 miles up Mt Hamilton Rd.

although I hardly get dropped calls, my reception at my house is retarded. On average I have about 2 bars. At times it will jump to 3 and dropped down to no bars. Being that my reception is low my battery will tend to drain quickly. The good thing is I rarely have dropped calls... about 2-3 a month. Sprint has made a big improvement around my area. I used to get endless dropped calls. I would call up and complain and they would rationalize saying that "oh its the structure of the building." in response to that I asked so why do I get dropped calls outside and they had no absolute answer. On the website I checked the coverage map of my place and it said best service. I think that this is quite misleading because they forget to mention that you have to be on roam to get the best service. i've only recently found out that I would get a full bar when I placed my fone on roam. But the disadvantage of being on roam is that you dont receive your voicemails and text messages so theres really no point. I dont think its fair that they concentrate on bigger cities like Los Angeles. If you look at their coverage map they've got like over a 100 new towers while we in the south bay only got like 4. I guess they forget that a lot of the people who work in the city live in the subarbs.

Unusable in apartment, not even ringing most of the time. Get two bars outside but signal strength is fragile, dropping calls if I take a deep breath. Pretty decent around the south bay in general, though. Just would be nice to be able to use my cell phone, you know, WHERE I LIVE.

I get very bad reception in the Archstone Willowglen apt. complex. The map shows good coverage, but for some reason neither my husband (who uses the Blade) nor I (LG) get signal here. Sometimes we roam, other times we don't. Other that that signal is o'k, but never in any unpopular areas. My friends with Verizon and Cingular usually have signal where I don't. I have a contract with Sprint and they won't let me out because I don't get signal at home. I'm very unhappy with them right now because of that.

Zero reception in the buildings of City Hall

best I can get at 2nd floor apartment is 1 bar, dropping calls in the middle of conversation, no rings, battery runs low very fast

Sprint coverage in this area continues to be poor despite the addition of many houses in the area. For me, Sprint coverage has remained largely unchanged for over 5 years. On the other hand, both Verizon and ATT / Cingular have expanded coverage out here. Guess you get what you pay for :(

Sprint is spotty at best around the country club area. The traffic light at the intersection is in a difficult spot and calls always drop. Cingular is ok (AT&T tower) but Verizon is better here. T-Mobile is useless.

Works OK. Better than Cingular by a long shot!

Treo 600 with Sprint PCS started out OK 2 yrs ago. but a technician said the 650 model handled problems in the 600 series -namely the memory dies and it crashes and dropped calls and no service is daily. I getreception at home but more freque4ntly than not while driving.

very spotty reception in the store

Good signal. Always get the max bars any room in the house. never get call dropped.

Barely get one bar. Most of the time it's no reception and slightly 1. Lots of dropped calls. I used to have a Samsung phone (non-Vision) and it was the same. My friend has a Nokia 3585i, slightly better reception (at least 1 bar) most of the time but similar to my phone, it drops to 0 bars as well. Hers also has lots of dropped calls as well. Coverage out there with Sprint is *very* spotty. Once out on the road, reception is much better, but in this area in particular reception is terrible. It could be from the mountains as this was pre Sprint-Nextel merger. My cousin has Nextel and his reception wasn't great either. Although some friends claim that Cingular is better. This review is based on a 2004 visit to CA. The San Francisco area has good reception, though (city area and around Fisherman's wharf). Sprint customer service wasn't that great either when I got back to NYC and explained my problem. Discovered of course, that you can call Sprint through your phone (*4 and say 'Credit for a dropped call'), but you're only allowed 8 credits per month when in that week alone I was visiting I had more than 8 dropped calls! Then they tried to sell me their 'Roaming Plan' (wtf-?!), when I was already in roam on my visit there. Of course, my contract is finally up with Sprint and I plan on switching.

Reception suddenly drops to zero and calls get dropped occasionally, but 4-bar reception always comes back within a few seconds.

I didn't even get to start the test. It already failed even before I started. Tried to call customer service through cell phone, did not even go through. Call drop #1, Call drop #2, Call drop #3... Oh finally... "Spring PCS - something, may I help you?" ummm... call drop #4!

It allways works perfectly... reception seems to vary though

Excellent signal strength, almost full strength with this phone.

I am marking this as "average" based on the number of signal bars. However, I must add that I get NO dropped calls, NO straight to Vmail, my wireless web still works excellent with one or two bars and voice quality is always superb.

I never was able to get a Sprint phone (three of them) to get good signal at my home... near Home Depot on Blossom Hill. This really sucked for work related calls... and it was embarassing when I had a job interview once and the call dropped 6-7 times... luckily I still got the job.

Once I step inside the house... the reception is absolutely 0.

I have another Sprint phone, Samsung A500. Both phones get only one bar of reception. My friend has a camera Sprint phone, the Sanyo SCP-8100, which supposedly should recieve atleast 2 bars more than what my phone gets and in this area. He only gets 1 bar reception. Too many calls get dropped and I don't recommend Sprint in any neighboring areas in San Jose.

Horrible in Evergreen of SJ. Do not go with Sprint if you live anywhere in this area. It took them 3 months to fess up that it's a network problem.

In house reception is average. Outside is good.

No reception inside or outside of my apartment building. Terrible area

The 85-280 interchange always always always drops my calls.