i never get lower than 4 bars and when I lived in new york my phone reception sucked

Calls are like 1 of 3 words are missed. They are very poor in service / tech help, they do no care!

Ok, I am on a beachfront condo... .but who cares! I have been seeking an alternative to T-Mobile. Calls have always dropped in the tens of deadspots in countless locations. Is it the phone? Is it the service? Each would blame the other.

I call it the "Jupiter Triangle". On I75 as you near Jupiter, calls drop. Strange because there are three cell towers right next to the interstate in the exact area the signal drops... and after the dropped call, you immediately get 5 bars! When is Alltel going to get a corporate store in West Palm? Long overdue for the "nations largest coverage area".

Nextel says that the are getting better, better at what, dropping calls and giving you no reception. This company has been going down hill ever since the hurricanes. The best thing I licked about this phone was the 2 way, but that has gone also. It makes no sense way you have to pay your bill for service that doesn't work? Now that Sprint bought them out they say thay are better, but they are wrong. I have spoken to customer service and they told me that Sprint towers are not compatible with netel. So there you have it the company needs help. Hope who reads this makes a good decision on the company they get. Good luck to all Nextel customers.

This company sucks after the hurricane. I have called about 20 times in two and a half month and the reception still sucks. They tell me everytime I call to make a ticket up with them so that they can check the towers. They leave me messages that its all taken care of, but the phone only gets good reception for about two days, after that it sucks again. I Suggest that you stick to a different company. Good luck!

I have been with Nextel for 3 to 4 years and they have never failed me. I came from Cingular which back then was absolutely horrifying. Their costumer service was terrible. If I had a problem they told me oh well, there was nothing they could do about it. Now, with Nextel costumer service is always to set things right. Rather with credits to my account or free phones. They are great

I have had my service with AT&T and then Cingular for 3 or 4 years and the service has gotten terrible in the past 6 months. I'm considering changing to T-Mobile

I like the phone, but Virgin Mobile has no signal where I live. Missed calls, unable to surf unlimited because of the poor to non-existant signal.

Although I have been maintaining 3 to 5 bars, calls are not working in both direction and those that do get dropped for the last two weeks. Sprint tech support says they are having trouble with the closest antennae to this location. They say it may be hardware or software but they are looking into it. This is downtown West Palm Beach, how does this company expect to satisfy customers when they are just looking into the problem for 2 weeks now. It's pretty useless to have a phone service that is currently not working for the 53 employees of my work plus the 100's or more that work and live in this area.

Metro PCS does not have the best reception. Most of time on my Metro PCS cell phone I usually only I have about two bars. I also can't leave the palm beach area with out my cell phone serching for sercvice.

In community of Golden Lakes Village... Blackberry phone on Boost / Sprint is two bars, very unreliable. IPAD 2 3G Verizon averages weak two bars, rarely enough to download many web pages or Email if inside a init. Some locations get a stronger two bars, and function slowly at downloads.

I have a Verizon Broadband Card which I use for my internet and this location gives me about two bars but if I drive up to around Okeechobee Blvd.and The Turnpike it jumps to five bars. I noticed there are no towers near this area and most are close to the Turnpike. I did see what appears to be a new cell tower that looks like a giant flagple with a American Flag and Eagle at the top. This new tower is located at Benoist Farms and Okeechoobee Blvd. I am unsure which carrier this tower is for and wondered if anyone else knows?

We need a tower added to the Northwest in the Perserve (the city apperved it over 10 years ago) or to our Southwest where The City of West Palm Beach just approved it

We have had Cingular for 2yrs now, and they suck! We have all the problems everyone else complains about- dropped calls (those commercials make me sick!) no signal, late messages, phone not ringing, etc. I am currently looking for another carrier as well as another phone. This time I am trying to do my homework before I am stuck again. We have had a poor experience with Nextel, have friends who suffer with Sprint, so... We are considering Verizon.

I get ONE bar at best with Verizon, but most times get nothing. Quick rundown, avoid Nextel, Cingular and Verizon in South Florida. T-Mobile leases 40% of it towers from Cingular, I am told. Sprint seems to be the most reliable, from what I read on these boards.

I have dropped Cingular and switched over to Sprint since they have a better rate for the plan that I wanted. With Cingular I used to gets "Missed Call" messages when the phone never rang or I would get an alert that I have a message. This alert would come through on a Tuesday for a message that someone left on the previous Friday.

Wow... what happened to Nextel? I used to defend them and they turned on me. Lose reception every time I hit Okeechobee around Andros Isle... very frustrating since I drive that road several times per day. Not too mention they were the worst during and after the hurricanes and every day around 5pm I get "all lines are busy" ggggrrrr. Dropped them last week after 3yrs and went to T-Mobile for $30pm less and received a free new Razr to boot. After researching and seeing T-Mobile has led the pack in the customer service ratings each year figured anything will be better than Nextel. Remeber... if you're thinking of purchasing Nextel do the following "SPRINT" to another carrier!

Although I only get 3 bars on the Treo 650, the reception is very good even indoors when it drops to 1 bar..

Fringe area. Goes from Cingular to AT&T to extended range within a 20' radius. Need to reposition or add a wider range trans / rec. A loaner GSM did the same. I guess a yagi antenna with a building repeater is the answer for here.