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Reception is great outdoors but as soon as you set foot inside a building (any building), Sprint service disappears and if you're lucky you'll roam. More often than not I'm stuck in limbo between the phone hanging onto unusable Sprint service and roaming. This causes so many issues with dropped calls, calls not even coming through, or even better... no service at all.
If you own a Verizon phone (palm, black berry ect) expect a drop call, when you travel on Rt. 125 between Rt155 and rt 152 in Lee, Thirty thousand cars travel on road daily and yet zero bars, the irony is Verizon has a store just a few miles from dead zone. Shamefull!
My phone is great everywhere else except home. I should have used my phone there before buying the house. I have to go outside to answer the phone, or sometimes it doesn't ring at all and I get the tone for a voice mail. Newmarket needs to put up a tower... I'm closer to that side
Parts of Congreve Hall have no reception at all, while others have a couple of bars. My room has none whatsoever and I was told by Sprint that reception was not guaranteed inside a building. I had to get a landline for the first time. Really spotty coverage outside too.
When we started with Sprint three years ago, reception was "average" at our house, but it has deteriorated over the last half year or so. The phone often doesn't ring with incoming calls, and we sometimes don't have service at all.
Reception is very good around campus, terrible in buildings, I bet they built them that way though. As you move away from the University reception drops off quickly. Pretty decent though, in my dorm room right now I have 5 out of 6 bars.
We moved to Durham in June 2006. I get really great reception with Verizon in Durham and Madbury. Reception was bad over the summer in Barrington and Lee, but has gotten much better (actually quite good). Reception stinks in Newmarket. When we moved last June, it was from the coast of Rye, NH. Reception was terrible on the southern coast of NH, but OK in Portsmouth.
My cellphone is a paperweigth at home. It will occassionaly ring to tell me someone is calling, but I never get to actually have a conversation. In the driveway it is a little better (I can tell what gender the caller is but still no conversation). The phone I am using is a non descript Motorola I got from Verizon a little over 3 years ago.
