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Can't make or receive calls in my house. Sometimes works in yard. I get a more reliable data signal. Used to have T-Mobile which worked great here.

Very spotty coverage. I lose calls inside home. My phone will not ring frequently. I recover or discover I have messages that I know I could of just answered if my phone would just ring. It is not in my settings, I've checked numerous times. I hate this service carrier, however I am not sure I could trust another. I think it is just a reality of cell phone coverage in this area by all carriers.

Sprint works very well in the private community of North Oaks. They have the closest tower of all cel phone companies, just on the north side. I had Verizon and it was always hit and miss. Sprint is a must in North Oaks.

Almost perfect. Calls sometimes drop going from McKnight to 61 but great reception everywhere else around town

I've lived in MSP for about 10 years, and had Sprint the whole time, and I only know one spot where my call gets dropped and it's on the U of M campus near a giant magnet, which I think is the reason why and the hole is only for about a block, other than that, I've had AMAZING coverage all over the city / country, and I'm quite the traveler, and I've always had great service and coverage from Sprint. I'm tempted by the iphone, but stay with Sprint because I know they have great coverage here, and along all the highways around here.

I get decent service in our house and good service outside in the neighborhood. My boyfriend has Nextel, and he gets awful service in the house, even though our phones supposedly use the same towers.

In building I get 4 or 5 bars, outside I have 5. I have not had a dropped call in the twin cities. At my house about a mile east I have 4-5 bars inside as well.

Extremely poor inside, better outside. I have to walk about two blocks south to get great reception

Reception has been great all over the rest of the Twin Cities, with the exception of inside my house. There seems to be a dead zone on Saint Paul Ave between Edgecumbe and Montreal. I get 1 bar at best when inside my house and have to walk out into my driveway or front yard to make a phone call. If I attempt to make calls inside, they will drop within 2 minutes. On occasion, I get hooked up to a digital roaming network and can make calls with 4 bars of service. Unfortunately, as soon as the phone gets a whisper of the Sprint network, it reconnects to it and I'm back to 1 bar at best.

I've only had 1 or 2 dropped calls in a year. so iam happy with sprint.

Get 2 bars but they only care about major hy's and not city streets or homes. My EVDO works good though data is better than voice

Had Verizon could not make a call from my driveway. switched to Sprint and have not had a problem since.

Renewed my contact with Sprint with a new Sanyo 3100 phone and I'm disappointed that the reception is not as good as my last Sanyo phone. Dropped calls and no connect. Didn't do my homework before I got the phone. Won't make the same mistake again...

I've used Sprint for several years in Mpls and was very satisfied. However, I moved to Eagan and found that I can't even use my phone in the house.

Virtually no reception on the hill area of the U of MN St. Paul campus (near the water tower). There seems to be a dead zone that extends from the Borlaug Hall / Ecology Building west to Cleveland Ave extending north to Roselawn. I've used three different model phones all with Sprint service, and all three lose signal in this area. Bad for U of MN students!

No matter what the weather is, always drops the calls. Has been this way for 2 years and Sprint refuses to accept the problem.

I just recently signed back with Sprint after believing I had an equipment problem at my house. The new phone isn't any better. I actually have to switch to Digital Roaming while in my house to get a phone call, which is ridiculous. Also, sprints customer service has gone incredibly down hill. 9 times out of 10 I'll get someone who speaks english as a second language (and not that well I might add). They really don't care about me or anyone else. They did do one thing for me, which was confirm I was living in a dead spot, but then ticked me off even more when they said there was nothing THEY could do about it and to live with it. I asked for my money back and they said they would waive the cancellation fee, but not give my money back for the phone... great... just lost $100 bucks on this piece of crap even though the store representative said, "oh no our reception is great in Apple Valley... "

Reception cuts out, often phone does not ring entirely.

SO GOOD! I wonder why anyone buys anything but Sprint?!

I have to stick my head out my window even to get one bar and 9 of 10 times my call gets dropped. Also downtown st paul I have trouble and on 494 / 35E

As soon as I enter my neighborhood, I loose 75% of my calls. I have to be next to a window or outside my home to get reception, even then I am not guaranteed to keep the call.

Sprint reception on Cathedral and Ramsey hills is very poor. Our phones otherwise work fine with Sprint, especially in downtown locations. Need more antennas!

Very poor reception within home compared to Verizon.

I work at the intersection of 35E and HWY96. I get at most 1 bar inside the building and often have no service at all. Same results around Bald Eagle Lake. My friend has same problem. I have had Cingular and Verizon as well in the past 4 months and they worked fine. Everyone else I work with that doesn't have a Sprint phone has no problems in our building. Sprint's customer service told me that "we probably just don't have a strong signal in that area." I was a day late on the 14 day return period and they refused to help me. "Our contract specifically states that we do not guarantee reception inside of buildings" was all they would say. They said they should be getting another tower around there in the next 3-4 years. Also on numerous occasions I have found that I have over a dozen new voicemails that it never bothered to inform me of.

With Sprint family plan no service to other phone on same plan located in Hastings,MN

If I actually get service, it usually cuts out within a minute. No service ever indoors.

Our reception is poor at our house, and we consistantly get dropped calls. We usually have to walk outside to the curb to guarantee a strong signal.

Sprint says that this is a known dead spot for ALL carriers and it won't ever change. My friends who live close to us also have Sprint and have the same problem. If you live near here, don't expect good coverage.

Best Reception I've ever had with anyphone.. I dont know why people complain their Sprint Phones dont work in the City but this is without a doubt the best carrier to have. I calls sound much clearer I have not had a single drop call that was Sprints fault in about 6 months the phone even works in the basemen and my house was built in 1960 so you would expect it to not work very well but it does.. My sister who has Cingular and gets very crappy service. She is soon porting her number to Sprint..

I've had Sprint PCS service for the past 6 months and get one bar or no reception in my house. I get great reception downtown, and if I go into my backyard I get fine reception, but the front yard and for several blocks south of the house I have no reception. There's also a dead spot on 35E just north of 694, and when trying to cross the river going to Minneapolis on Marshall. I really don't get service in a lot of places, and will probably change carriers.

Live nearby and cannot get a signal in my house 95% of the time. Sometimes in the driveway it works, or not. Even driving along Wilderness Run I can be roaming. Wondering if it's the phone(samsung) or Sprint. Various phone "upgrades" from Sprint haven't done anything to help.

Frequent dropped calls, frequent "Out of service", low battery life (searching for service!) in my home. Neighborhood is better, but this phone and Sprint are bad news right here.

Great at my house. There is a dead-spot near the intersection of Cretin and I-94 however. Must drive quickly through that area.

Very poor reception on my Treo 300 in my home. My wife's newer phone has 4 bars though. We have had several phones and it seems to be a phone issue not a tower issue.

I have had Sprint for 7 years. At first, the reception was shaky, now I get great reception almost everywhere. My work phone is AT&T and that one will have no service inside a lot of buildings while my Sprint phone will be ringing.

Try to drive towards 35E on Maryland while talking on a Sprint phone - I can almost guarantee that your call will drop.

At work (school) the reception is great. Likewise, as we get closer to downtown St. Paul. But in the neighborhood, fuggeddaboudit. Most of the time I will get one bar, though I have been cut off in mid-conversation before. It's not like we are in the boondocks: our house is about 3 mi. from downtown St. Paul and 5 from downtown Minneapolis. I will not renew unless coverage improves.