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My friend had the HTC Hero from Sprint, but had no 3G service. I went with him to switch to Verizon this weekend. I was on AT&T and was also thinking about switching over. I found out it was buy one get one free so I went ahead and switched. I love Verizon. I get service in more places then I did with AT&T. 3G all over, too.

Can't complain about the phone signal here. Have had great reception here for a few years now and I don't even own a land line any more.

I get great service with Verizon here! You cant get ANYTHING with Cingular / AT&T! Not even a bar!

Great signal! Compared to Sprint 3 years ago, Cingular has topped the signal. I agree that coverage is bad in some spots (Airline / Texas intersection and I-49 North / South), but overall pretty good. Perfect signal inside my home as well.

I bought T-Mobile when I was in Miami, FL. Then I moved to Bossier City with the same plan and used it for about one and a half year. YES, in some places there is no coverage, but I spent most of my time in town so no prob. If you live out of town, say Benton, don't get this line. Best line, if in metro area; best rates, decent phones; and my first phone line. i am getting Verizon or AT&T cuz I am planning to stay in this city for four more years. probably verizon.

Get great service with Alltel in this area. Most places I go to throughout town has at least one bar. I have only been to a few places with no service, and those places were inside buildings.

I wish Cingular would just come out and tell people we know there are call volume issues in this area, we apologize, we are working to fix these issues by the the middle or end of summer 2006, Cingular reception is fine, in terms of bars, its the call volume and the handing off of towers thats they problem, towers can't handle the volume of calls and therefore reject handoffs. Problem is with customers, is that their expectations are based on service that was provided before trying to merge all the Att&T customers and networks with Cingular networks, that puts a huge strain on a network especially when you make a call and the it goes to jackson miss, due to the switch shreveport is on. Thank god they are building a switch which should help with call volume. As to those of you who have problems, yes Cingular knows and yes, it doesn't matter what phone you get you will have some service issues. So please stop coming in the store and yelling at reps about issuses they can't control and try to be nice about the problem and atleast let a rep attempt to help you. I see so many customers get upset with bad attitudes that it makes the rep not want to help them. if you come in with a bad attitude I will say that you probably will leave even more pissed, because most reps will not assist you in the manner that you would like. And please assume that customer service will tell you anything to get you off the phone and send you to a store, were you will get a shock when the reps tell you something different, don't act surprised. Unfourtunately customer service can and will mislead or tell you different things due to inconsistent training, Customer complain about what reps on stores due, but its the reps for the most part who are constantly uptodate with information and not customer service, thats a sad but true fact. in closing, be fair, act like an adult, keep and open mind and you might find that people are willing to go out of there way to help you

My reception has been perfectly average, just average, nothing special or bad just average. Ho hum, what an average calling plan too! Must have been designed for me speciffically, because I'm just so average. Signed, Average Joe (the white guy with the average name). Except for the antelope vomit on my dash, its all very average.

I get 3 to 5 bars but still lose calls and most calls are so fuzzy that I can't understand the other person. I did not have this problem with a Nokia 2100 with ATT Wireless GSM but now have major problems with switching to Cingular's GSM with Samsung E317. The migration to Cingular was terrible and I will not go with Cingular next time, unless something changes. I am very unhappy at this point.

I live right across from the base, and I don't get good service with Sprint at all. I can live without 3G, 1X data is good enough for most of my data needs. Outdoors at my residence I go from 1-3 bars, and indoors my phone has to be by the window to hold a signal. It's unfortunate, as Sprint has pretty good coverage in general throughout Shreveport / Bossier. I guess i'm in one of the few dead zones.