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1. Sprint 1.63 8 Sprint Towers Map
2. T-Mobile 1.6 10 T-Mobile Towers Map
3. Verizon 1.56 16 Verizon Towers Map
4. AT&T 1.55 20 AT&T Towers Map
5. Nextel 0.75 4 Nextel Towers Map

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Carrier / Rating Location / Comment Date
AT&T
5 Out of 5
5 Out of 5

Phone Model:
Cingular SYNC (Samsung SGH-A707)
New Hampshire Ave. / Adelphi Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20903 Wed Dec 03, 2008

This is a bad area for cell phone use... While there are "5 bars" on the display, I get dropped calls all the time. Sometimes I will try and try for 20 minutes to make a call from my home upstairs, then go downstairs and have no problems at all. I use AT&T because its cheap. Also, I would NOT recommend the Samsung SGH-A707, IMO it is a crappy product. Thanks

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Verizon
5 Out of 5
5 Out of 5

Phone Model:
Motorola E815
Georgia Ave. / Spring St., Silver Spring, MD 20910 Fri May 25, 2007

I'm not sure why everyone else has been writing with 1s and 2s for reception for Verizon Wireless in the Silver Spring area. I suspect that it may have to do with inferior phone models. I have never had less than 4 bars anywhere in Silver Spring, even in the basement garage of my apartment building with a Motorola E815. Driving around the Washington Metro area, I never have less than 4 bars anywhere, even anywhere on the Beltway. Just my 2 cents.

T-Mobile
5 Out of 5
5 Out of 5

Leisure World, Silver Spring, MD 20906 Sun Aug 20, 2006

We moved into Leisure World with Sprint service and found we generally have 1 bar of reception. My plan is old, phone broke, so we went to Simply Wireless in Wheaton Plaza and they helped us locate a provider with better reception from our home, which is where we mostly use the phone. Despite the coverage map we were shown, T-Mobile has fully 5 bars in our location. Great!

T-Mobile
5 Out of 5
5 Out of 5

Phone Model:
Samsung SGH-E105
Viers Mills Rd. / Newport Mill Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20902 Mon Dec 27, 2004

Good reception around my house. No reception in Rock Creek Park. Have lost calls in various places in and around the DC area with frustrating frequency. Voice mail notifications come sometimes days later. Won't work in many buildings. Rarely works below ground. Going back to Verizon soon.

Sprint
4 Out of 5
4 Out of 5

Georgia Ave. / Hathaway Dr., Silver Spring, MD 20906 Thu Jan 03, 2008

Great coverage indoors too - no problems at all. Unfortunately I just cancelled insurance coverage on my Sprint phone and lost it - so now must deal with possibly switching carriers - as I prefer a prepaid plan.

Sprint
4 Out of 5
4 Out of 5

Phone Model:
Samsung 920
Cape May and NH, Silver Spring, MD 20904 Tue Nov 20, 2007

better than it used to be - fewer dropped calls in the past several months

Verizon
4 Out of 5
4 Out of 5

Phone Model:
Kyocera SoHo (KX1)
Eastwood Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20901 Tue Aug 02, 2005

At the house, good reception inside (except basement), outside very strong signal. Previously used ATT TDMA, did not work well inside, had to go outside near the street to make a call.

AT&T
3 Out of 5
3 Out of 5

8506 Fenton St., Silver Spring, MD 20910 Wed Sep 28, 2011

Despite 3 bars present, I couldn't call, just sent messages. Neither could I phone of my boss

AT&T
3 Out of 5
3 Out of 5

Phone Model:
Sony Ericsson Z500a
Charles Road / Bennion Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20906 Sat Jul 21, 2007

Since my November review, we have been told by a Cingular / AT&T customer service rep. that one of the towers in our area is "severely degraded". This is apparantly the reason for our extremely unreliable service. Since that time, it does not appear that any effort has been made to fix the tower. Our call reliability was once excellent but has continued to steadily worsen. Regardless of the number of bars we get (and it fluctuates widely - from 5 to 0, to 3, to 1... -- all within a period of a few minutes), the only constant is that almost every call drops the signal at some point, either on the caller or the receiver's end. In fact the conversations are exactly as depicted in the Cingular commercials! Extraordinarily frustrating! We have had enough and are actively seeking another service provider.

Virgin Mobile
3 Out of 5
3 Out of 5

Phone Model:
Nokia Shorty
16th St. / East-West Hwy., Silver Spring, MD 20910 Tue Apr 03, 2007

I've lived in a top-floor and a bottom-floor apartment in this area. Reception on the top floor is perfect; on the bottom floor was marginal. On the bottom floor, and in the basement of my current apartment, calls would simply drop if I went into the hallway. I've never had a problem with reception outside, however.

Sprint
3 Out of 5
3 Out of 5

Phone Model:
Sanyo PM-8200 (SCP-8200)
East-West Hwy. / Grubb Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20910 Thu Jan 18, 2007

Been with Sprint for 5 years -- never experience dropped calls. Reception is so-so in some areas but I can always get through. Phone has terrible sound -- used to think it was the reception but come to find out, it's my phone. I wish you test out phone sound before you buy.

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AT&T
3 Out of 5
3 Out of 5

Phone Model:
Sony Ericsson Z500a
Bennion Rd. / Charles Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20906 Sun Nov 26, 2006

I am a former AT&T customer who was switched to Cingular when the companies joined. Previously, I was very happy with reception in and around my house and around the area (4 or 5 bars almost all the time - even walking along the edge of Rock Creek Park) -- until Cingular began its "fewest dropped calls" ad. Ever since then, we've had very frequent dropped calls and MANY one-way calls (where EITHER we can hear the caller OR the caller can hear us!) Don't know what the problem is, but we are becoming very frustrated. Perhaps a tower has been removed.

AT&T
3 Out of 5
3 Out of 5

Phone Model:
Palm Treo 650 (GSM)
Randolph Rd. / Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20902 Sun Apr 02, 2006

Cingular has decent reception in this area at times. It tends to get overloaded at times and calls will not go through or come in. Additionally, the service is hit or miss. Sometimes there is a delay in receiving a voicemail notification. Also, the service is very temperamental as you start traveling around, working in some places and not in others. Overall the signal strennth is not very strong anywhere (even though my phone indicates that it is). The service is mediocre at best, and I would npt conitnue on with them if it were not for the fact that they use GSM technology, and this saves me money when I am traveling outside the USA.

T-Mobile
3 Out of 5
3 Out of 5

Phone Model:
Motorola V300
Georgia Ave. / Connecticut, Silver Spring, MD 20906 Sat Dec 25, 2004

From the reviews I've seen for Aspen Hill area, seems like many people have problem with their reception. Personally in my opinion, I've never complained with T-Mobile's reception in Aspen Hill area. It works just fine. I never had any dropped calls.

AT&T
2 Out of 5
2 Out of 5

Archstone Wheaton, Silver Spring, MD 20902 Mon Apr 04, 2011

Drops out completely at times - won't send or receive messages and won't send or receive calls.

Verizon
2 Out of 5
2 Out of 5

1220 East West Hwy., Silver Spring, MD 20910 Fri Sep 11, 2009

Calls dropped intermittently - not sure if it is the new building that blocked it..

Verizon
2 Out of 5
2 Out of 5

Phone Model:
Samsung A930
Georgia Ave. / Bel Pre, Silver Spring, MD 20906 Sat Jun 06, 2009

We just moved to the area from NY, and since moving here, we've experienced more dropped calls than we have in the last 5 years. The Verizon rep tells me it's because of the storms, but we had plenty of storms in NY with no interference. We're looking for a new service, though it seems from the reviews that it's not a great area out here.

AT&T
2 Out of 5
2 Out of 5

Beach St. / Wexford St., Silver Spring, MD 20906 Sun Aug 17, 2008

I do not get very good signal here.

Verizon
2 Out of 5
2 Out of 5

Phone Model:
LG VX4650
Peach Orchard / Kingshouse, Silver Spring, MD 20905 Wed Jun 14, 2006

spotty in rambler sometimes we have to go outside to get good signal

AT&T
2 Out of 5
2 Out of 5

Fairland / Rt. 29, Silver Spring, MD 20904 Tue Aug 24, 2004

Trouble has only been within the last few months. Reception in this area has declined; once outside the immediate vicinity, reception is fine.


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