System Busy messages are uncontrollable. I hate cingular!

Depending on where you are in Germantown MD, you may get from 2 bars to a full bar count. What you may wind up doing is forcing the phone to look for and then use the AT&T signal in that area (to avoid the roaming). 15 miles from DC and I am in roaming.

I travel this area frequently to and from home to avaoid the highway and can guarantee you that if I am on the phone, the call drops for at least five minutes and I am totally clear of the area. I hate Nextel, but feel bound because of the free incoming calls.

My Nextel service stinks. I am sick and tired of the decending quality of service. Nothing but garbled direct connect and no service on my screen. I think Verizon is the only option.

i have been experiencing drop calls in my house ever since I bought this phone in January. Before I switched to Sprint I was with t- Mobile and it worked perfect in my house I have called customer service several times but the problem remains.

Since last Sunday 10 / 10 / 10, Sprint has no service at this location. No calls can be made or received. No access to voice messages either. The same cellphone works in other places perfectly fine though. I have called customer service multiple times, they have no idea what is going on but one of the reps admitted that recently they have had outings in this area. Overall, very poor customer service. I will change my carrier as soon as I get a chance.

Poor to no reception in house.

Bars don't count in this area. Sitting in one spot, I'll get a read of 1-2-3 bars in 10 seconds, and calls get dropped (too many times to count) anyway.

I rate the reception average because it varies between 5 bars and 0 bars while I'm standing still. Whether in my office (which has big windows) or driving, a call can be dropped at any time. I miss calls all the time because the phone doesn't ring and a minute later it chimes that someone left me a voice mail message. The treo chimes when it switches between digital and analog and sometimes it does it so much I turn the sound off and miss calls that way. Its not the phone, because I have 5 phones on my account and 3 different models and they all do this. I've been a Sprint customer for a long time and the reception used to be much better. The problems began about 1-2 years ago. If I didn't have 5 phones and a long contract I would change carriers, but I'm hoping they work our their network problems.

Drop in service pretty regularly. Sometimes it just goes haywire and spends the day switching from analog to digital.

Signal strength is usually 1 bar and sometime no reception. I miss many calls everyday. Most people told me I am out of reach. I am thinking to try Verizon. What is your advice?

So far so good. No dropped calls. Recently switched from Nextel and I'm a much happier camper.

Signal strength is good outside of house, usually 4 bars. Inside of house is 3 bars depending on what room you're in. I received an "Echo" effect during one call in the building that I work in, otherwise; this phone works very good.

I can not get any type of reception, maybe a bar if that in the house. It is crazy, I have to go on the deck or stand right next to the window, or even go out the front door to get a reception.

When you are out side you have great reception, but dont even think about going in your house. You would be better with a land line phone.

Since going back to Verizon, I've had nothing but good reception. With T-Mobile and Cingular, reception and signal strength was not good. I could only get a few bars with my T-Mobile in certain rooms in the house, my home is made of brick. My Verizon service lets me talk anywhere in the house now including the basement where I could never pickup any signals.