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I've had Sprint since before katrina. When the storm hit, AT&T service stuggled but my phone and my wife's phone worked. It allowed us to text and talk to all.

My Sprint phone usually works fine. But when it doesn't, I force the phone to roaming, and it works great. And I pay no roaming charges. LG 350 allows you to force the phone into roaming mode. Get a phone which includes digital and analog roaming (Sprint and Verizon include this on some phones), and which lets you force it to roaming mode; and a plan which give you free roaming; and you'll always get a good signal on your phone. GSM phones have no analog (i.e. AT&T and T-Mobile). Nextel works only on Nextel towers (no roaming at all).

My Sprint phone fluctuates between 0 and 2 bars at home (Franklin and Gentilly area) inside AND outside. Calls are constantly dropped, causing me to get a home phone. Otherwise, my phone gets good reception everywhere else in the city and even on the outskirts. I have an AT&T laptop card which also gets very poor reception in this area (inside AND outside). The card gets good reception most other places until west of Laplace.

I have lived in new orleans for three years and originally had Nextel service, but due to the sorriest service I have ever experienced I decided after eleven years to break away. I have had other services for my personal use (nextel was always business) going on fourteen years it seems I have tried them all. So I switched to Sprint to try something totally different but being they had merged with Nextel they were exactly as sorry, and now that they have outsourced their support to India good luck on unstanding any phone conversation with either networks. Lets see... ... ... ... ... ..whos next?

Ever since Katrina, Sprint coverage in my home area has taken a drop. Hopefully it will improve.

Overall, service is good. I found it essential living in a concrete walled building to have a phone with an external antenna, instead of the built in one that you see with the base Nokia model. The typical Sprint dropped calls applies here, but I seem to get it a bit less. What I get most is the "never processed calls". You dial a number, push send, the timer begins and there is nothing. You hang up and try again, and it goes through. Overall, I have found the Sanyo base / mid phones to be better than the base / mid Nokia phones

I have had so many problems with my Sprint service here: hundreds of dropped calls etc. Other services are stronger in New Orleans