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I've purchased a Palm Pre from Sprint, but could not complete the activation process because the phone went to roaming and I needed connection to the Sprint network to set my profile. I tried both inside and outside my home, without success. Now I shall have to fight Sprint to cancel the transaction and return the phone.
I can rarely make a phone call within a 2 block radius of my house with the phone up to my ear because my head apparently blocks the last bit of signal that makes it to my phone - Usually have to talk on speaker phone or ear piece and often drop calls or just switches to a busy signal - Talked to AT&T people, got a new phone, new sim card, reception went from little to none so I took my returned my phone and kept the new sim card but problem still remains - on another note, my roommate has the same phone and same service but has very little problem (doesn't make any sense) - after I lose reception, I often have to stand in the middle of my driveway for 20+ minutes and turn my phone off and on multiple times with about 50% of the time, I never get reception back and just give up - Makes me really miss landline phones
The signal goes from 5 or 6 bars to Zero! In at least 50% of the calls the call goes dead! I hate the service of AT&T wireless in Champaign IL. I used to have Net 10; it was a lot better signal than AT&T.
The signal goes from 5 or 6 bars to Zero! In at least 50% of the calls the call goes dead! I hate the service of AT&T wireless in Champaign IL. I used to have Net 10; it was a lot better signal than AT&T.
phone dropped calls constantly texts never go through all the way i convinced t mobile to drop me i didn't pay the fee either! i told them I lived in small town champaign but i've been complaining for a while!
Just switched to Verizon from Nextel and I am ready to pay to get put of my contract and go back two many dead spots and droped calls and more expensive
ok! so what do we do about it????? My laptop is slower that the pony express [with no horses involved!] And my phone, and both of these are company issued, sucks also. dm
I've had no trouble with my Cingular reception. I lived in Savoy (neil and curtis) for a year, then moved to the middle of champaign. No problems either way.
Sprint Reception is great if you have a Sanyo phone. I don't know why they work so well and others don't. My wife and I have had them for over two years and after the Nextel-Sprint merger the few dead spots we had noticed in some big stores (like Schnucks) improved greatly. However, while my Sanyo had survived numerous drops it apparently wasn't waterproof. I recently picked up a Blackberry 7130e which is great for email, but is a poor phone. I think the email is on the blackberry network, while the phone service relies on Sprint's. Several complaints of calls breaking up with the Blackberry in areas where my Sanyo always worked well.
