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I have metro PCS and anywhere I go in the Lakeland area my phone works all the time. I never have drop calls at all ! Only thing is that metro is local service provider. I hope that soon that they will have more metro towers in outside areas
No reception inside the building. Sprint and Verizon users can make calls, I can't ! very frustrating, and if my phone does ring and I answer it inside the building (happened twice) it promptly drops the call hanging up on the person calling me.
T-Mobile is one of the few providers that get any bars on the first floor of my office - and T-Mobile has full bars. It has great coverage throughout the city. I can get calls, emails, internet, etc while my co-workers have nothing and miss call after call (Cingular is worst - they get no bars and callers are told their phone is not in service)
With Sprint, I can get reception when I stand on top of the pipe racks on the back of my work-truck. I have recently purchased a Boost-Mobile (Nextel prepaid) for backup. Between the Sprint and the Boost-Mobile, I have access to a cell phone nearly anywhere in the area. I wouldn't recommend anyone to depend on only Sprint for the Lakeland area.
Nextel has very spotty coverage in Polk County. I just changed from Cingular because their charges for roaming were so high on trips to South Carolina. Nextels coverage is way less than Cingular. I get "No Service" in lots of places in Polk County where Cingular had signals. I think Cingular has good coverage, but really vicious billing although I must admit they didn't hit me with early cancellation of $200 because I hadn't actually signed a contract. I'd be interested to know if one of the fixed price cell service providers like Metro has coverage in Polk County.
Sprint PCS is aware of very problematic coverage. Customer service and technical support are of no help, rude and arrogant. I just dropped Nextel for the same problems, i.e. no coverage, poor tech and customer support. From what I have been reading I don't think any of the cell companies really care about quality service, customer and technical support. Oh, and they even charge you an EXTRA $2.50 upwards for detailed statements, even the online detailed statements. I'm totally disgusted with Spring PCS and Nextel
Good reception all over town, even works well inside my house, I have no complaints and will stick with verizon.i was with another company that ended in PCS and theyre signals were lousy! so I been with Verizon for 3 yrs and change
