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Depends on the flow of traffic on Atando Avenue. 3-6 bars depending on the PRL.

The data is really slow, I am recieving more and more dropped calls even though it shows good signal. Even sometimes, it takes up to 2-3 hours for the area to allow calls again. Text messages are not going through and data is poor!

i get 2 bars outside. when i'm inside of the building next to the window..I get 0 bar. It drains the battery alot cuz it doesn't get much signal. my friend had a at&t(horrible customer service though) phone... get 2-3 bars. same thing for other locations..when i'm outside..i get 2 bars..inside..0 to 1 bar. i will call Sprint customer service and see what happens...

dropped calls inside and around my house every time ! I also have problems keeping my battery charged because it gets drained from constantly searching for signal

I get about 1 bar in my house (usually need to go outside to talk). Barely get 3G, and not a single ounce of 4G. The coverage area indicates I should have a strong 4G connections. Go figure!

In the Highland Creek area you can have your phone in one spot and see your bars constantly move from zero bars to 3 bars. Bad coverage here.

Drop calls inside and have to be outside to talk. I've called them but get nothing from them to help, unless I want to get a booster that will cost me more monthly. I'm looking for another carrier and will pay the contract fee. Beware of the 3 / 4 G cards. Overage fees on 3 G are horrific!

I'm warning you - Sprint is HORRIBLE in Charlotte; Signal and Customer Service. I had Sprint when I moved to 28209 5 yrs ago and had no service inside my home. Switched to AT&T and loved it everywhere I travelled (I own a Real Estate company so I'm everywhere). I built a home in 28205 and and switched back to Sprint because they are cheap and now have horrible service again(For some reason it keeps getting worse) and I don't get voicemails until 12-24 hrs later. I tried switching phones and customer service wants to charge me $100 for a 5,000 sq. ft. Booster for the home, but will wave a $6 / mo fee if I sign another 2 yr contract (If that doesn't work and I cancel I'll pay the waived monthly fees). Does this sound fair? I just need a phone that works. Hindsight is 20 / 20. They had horrible customer service 5 yrs ago and when I was signing up 4 mos ago 2 of their customers were complaining and cancelling. However, I wanted to save a couple $$ / mo. and now I have to pay a $200 cancellation fee which is worth it to have a working phone.

Service at the Stonecrest shopping center is a joke.

Sprint was fantastic in Charlotte until recently. I drop about 2 calls a year in Charlotte (good, imho) and still have great voice reception but my data has went from good to horrible since February. There are numerous spots around town where the data is amazing but in my neighborhood it's a joke (Actually it is fine from Lawndale east). I hate that this happened in the middle of a contract or I'd switch carriers. It seems that Sprint has turned towers off or they were repo'd.

Depending on where I place the device in my condo, I get somewhere between 20% and 60%. 60% is the best reception I've received from the device.

I live near David Cox Rd and had terrible coverage with Sprint in the previous 3 years that I have been with them but recently upgraded to the BB curve expecting better reception but not the case. So, I decided to call and complain to customer service about the terrible coverage I have been experiencing and threaten to cancel all five of my lines regardless of what the ETF were. As a resolution, Sprint sent me a Samsung Airave (at no charge only activation fee required) personal tower which covers up to 5000 sq feet in the home. Now I currently receive 5 full bars and fastest possible data connection for 1XEVDO. Still don't have the best coverage leaving the house but.5 mile down the road I get decent coverage. Hope this helps.

Cannot speak on the cell phone in my house (near this intersection) if the call is important (Business). Outside coverage is passable. I believe all carriers have issues in this area of Sardis Rd.

I have had Sprint for 6 years and have had no problems. The Signal is impeccable! I have had maybe 1 dropped call in the last 6yrs I have been with them!

Great Reception. Ive had other carriers such as verizon / alltell / att I dont like any of them as well as I do sprint

Service in the house is poor to none, often times I will usually receive voicemail notification hours after the voicemail was sent. Calls fade and drop even standing outside of my home. There are no Sprint towers close to this area.

Every day on my drive home I pass this intersection on top of a small hill. The reception gets really choppy and at least one call out of three is dropped. Always in the same place. Sprint claims their dropped calls have decreased from 3% to 1%. I question that. I don't complain about my dropped calls because it's more trouble than it's worth and I never get any action. The last time I tried to call them to complain from home I had to use my land line because their area I live in is so poor the operator was unable to understand me. Golly. Every so often I look at their map of coverage to see if my problem area is listed for upgrades. Nope. Sprint ain't all it could be.

actually I have several bars but I'm always dropping calls and when you look at the Ant. meter it shows good reception..Get away from the house and the phone does well but not in the house...

Reception very poor. When I called Sprint they said they had a tower nearbye.

I often have no reception or a "searching for signal" messege in my home, but if I stand on one leg, arms straight, turn my cap on backwards and blink my eyes every 45 seconds the reception comes in perfect. Oh! did I mention it has to be done only from 2am til 2:15.

Reception is terrible. I moved here from Boston, where my coverage with Sprint was fine, but here in Charlotte it is horrible. Literally, I go through at least 5 dropped calls per day. Can't be on the phone for more than 10 minutes without the signal fading. Called today to try to get out of my contract, and the guy at Sprint said it was beause my phone was old. Didn't have much of a comeback when I said it worked fine in Boston for 2 years, so perhaps it WAS the coverage. Anyway, they won't let me out of the contract. even I lost the signal twice on the call to cancel, and they still wouldn't listen. While I'm here, I'd like to share that Sprint has far and away the worst customer service of any company - phone or otherwise - that I have ever seen in my life. They border on evil. They make the DMV look like the Maitre'D at the Ritz Carlton. Avoid them at all costs. Verizon and Alltel appear to offer the best coverage in Charlotte.

I have one or two bars... rarely three. And sometimes even with 3 bars I drop calls. Sprint reception is the worst! Not to mention I can barely use it in my home.

sprint in uptown is good reception. can usually even get a signal inside my bldg. home it drops to like 3 bars... and every time a plane flies over my house my calls drop. can be downstairs and get lousy reception... with fading and dead spots in my calls... go upstairs and it is better, but still drops my calls.

Sprint reception in this area is horrible. I cannot have any phone converstations from home, always have to use Landline. Yet, going towards South blvd the reception increases to 4 bars within 4 blocks. Seems like a technical glitch that can be fixed by Sprint it they tried.

I commute to Uptown daily via Providence Rd.and there are huge dead spots where I have no bars. My service is fine when I am at home, but there is clearly no cell towers around the corridor to uptown.

Reception is random from poor to ok. Used to have a Sanyo and never had any problems at home. The Sanyo had a pullout antenna, the new LG doesn't. Sprint is being helpful and trying to fix problem. I think it is a poor phone and am switching back to a Sanyo

I agree with an earlier comment about the choice of phones. I have been with Sprint for at least 10 years and have found that when I'm with others on the Sprint network, they may have problems and I don't. I travel a lot for a living and have not had any problems where I go. I am on my 4 different Sanyo phone and very happy with them!

Works spotty and doesn't usually work in the first floor of my house. Friends have Cingular and Verizon. Both of those work well at my house.

I read the Charlotte comments on here for Sprint PCS and it looks pretty bad. However, I have been a Sprint PCS customer since 1997 and there is one thing that kept me here. I believe when it came to good reception its having the right phone and the right network. Sprint has a lot of poor phones but I have had near spotless reception in Charlotte and all the way up the east coast to New Hampshire when I go to visit family. The Sanyo phones if you have the right ones are the key for me. I was actually surprised to see how all the poor comments about Sprint in Charlotte but, I wasnt surprised to see that nonbody had a Sanyo phone that had poor reception. Its been working that way for me for many years.

I live by the airport so that could cause the reception to be bad. The reception also varies when I am in different part of the house.

Recption's always bad here at my house with Sprint- Nextels never had this problem, always five+ bars. The fact that the I330 doesn't have a suitable antenna doesn't help either-

I get real choppy reception in my bedroom. I don't have reception anywhere else in the apartment. This is not a problem with the area that I live in. The problem is with sprint. I ahve stayed in 3 different cities - Oklahoma City, Phoenix and Charlotte in 3 different states and I had the same problem with Sprint. I have gone between Sprint customer service and their technical support department at least 10 times without any result.

SprintPCS coverage the Charlotte area is very spotty and unreliable. In the Highland Creek area it is aweful, to say the least--you might hear 1 / 3 of the phone conversation. I've even been in D.C. (Tyson's Corner area) and my phone was roaming. How ridiculous... the nation's capital and I'm roaming on one of the largest so-called networks. And SprintPCS customer service is horrendous. Worst of any vendor I've ever been associated with.

incredibly spotty coverage. I know of at least 5 dead spots where I will always drop calls, and it happens randomly a lot more. the phone is also a cheap piece of crap and has fallen apart on me. Sprint also has attrocious customer service. they are the cheapest, but now I can finally afford to upgrade after 7 years.

This is at the Enclave Apartments so maybe that's the problem but even outside it sucks. Maybe I should move.

I have to walk outside my house to get service! I drop at least two calls a day.