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Fairly good reception, a few weak spots here and there, but that's due to the phone. I eat people.

It shows full bars but the reception is not great. Although the phone has a bad reputation as the microphone is too easy to overdrive, I also get static / poor reception when listening to others who are calling from a LAN line. I occasionally get calls dropped. To get good reception, I have to go outside my apartment and walk one block south.

T-Moblie, unfortunately has a band of low reception that includes my house. I can only make calls in one room. Other areas of Champaign seem to get great coverage.

I work at Amdocs on Fox Drive. I don't even take calls on my phone during the day because they will drop or the caller will not be able to hear me. I get excellent reception and data rates (can stream 96kbps shoutcast audio without buffering) at my home in Urbana and throughout the downtown areas of C-U. However the weak areas are very bad. The worst is Kirby Ave. from Prospect - West. Calls are practically guaranteed to drop if I drive into this area while talking.

Outdoor reception excellent, but indoor is poor. I have been told it is due to the building having thick red brick walls, and copper window screens and roof sheathing... a sort of Faraday cage!

Sprint just plain sucks, at least with this phone. I finally just canceled the contract - 1.6 out of 2 years with this crap was enough. Reception was spotty, dropped calls even when the bars showed full signal. Forget about trying to use it while traveling - no reception while traveling from St. Louis to California along major highways. No reception up the Pacific coast until we got to Portland. No reception along I80 all the way from Portland to Somewhere in Iowa, then spotty reception back home to Champaign. Not a good phone to take on tour or vacation, unless you only need the PDA portion of the phone (making it a PDA, not a phone). As for Sprint's "web" service - sucks sucks sucks. Has NEVER worked right. Same with customer support / customer service (there was virtually NONE).

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!