Nextel is terrible and only getting worse. It is impossible to talk to anyone anywhere in the city without droping the call. Pityfull, absolutely pityfull.

Nextel's great in the county, but is terrible in the city. I rarely get a signal anywhere in the city and if I do, it bottoms out after a minute.

I had Sprint PCS plan (there was no reception) before switching over to Verizon Wireless service plan after reading reviews but found the service to be horrible with frequent disconnect during the calls.

I bought Verizon Wireless service plan after reading reviews but found the srvice to be horrible.

Horrible, Horrible reception in my place of employment(Johns Hopkins Hospital). More often than not I have No Service at all.

My husband and I have similar phones and our T-Mobile reception in our neighborhood (close to downtown Baltimore) has gotten steadily worse over the past year. I have no coverage in my house and have to walk 1 / 2 block down the street to check voice mail. It is difficult or impossible to get information on whether a different phone would do better. We almost switched to Cingular, but checked Consumer Reports web site rates them worse than T-Mobile.

I have Verizon and have terrible reception. I used to barely eek out reception in my apartment, occasionally getting 2-3 bars on a good day, but now, can barely get one bar, and even then, calls drop out in the middle of connecting routinely, etc. Retrieving voice mail is an exercise in futility. My Verizon coverage, strangely enough, has actually gottten worse. Same location, same phone - but my bars are now pretty much gone, even within a few block radius. T-Mobile works best in my area, of so I've heard. Haven't tried Cingular / AT&T but am considering it, since across the board, the performance of Verizon, everywhere I go is increadingly spotty and unreliable, with drop-outs, echoes, and sudden drops from 5-6 bars to none with no warning. Verizon definitely is starting to show reliability problems for me. (Of course, at work, they installed a Verizon antenna, so it works there. To bad it stinks every where else seemingly.)

The service has several dead spots in Baltimore City and Baltimore County and drops calls on a regular basis (Multiple Times Daily).

2 bar reception at most, about half the time the phone won't even ring when there is an incoming call. Works well elsewhere but Hampden reception is POOR. Complained to Sprint PCS and was informed that "sometimes it happens"...

I just switched from the SCH-A530 to the A670. My older phone overall had better reception, but the service is still great. I get a great signal throughout the city, and wherever I travel. I rarely have dropped calls. Also, when I'm in a city's subway system, including Baltimores, I always get a full signal. I think Verizon is still the only company that offers underground cell phone reception.