People must realize, that reception DOES depend on the model and quality of phone. My Ericsson Z520A does very well.. but my Motorola V551 blows chunks. I was lucky to keep 2 bars on it. Reception DOES drop to 1 bar at random times, but in general, I get 4-5 bars very consistently. There are a couple of dead-zones in the JC area. Notably along the road into Liberty State Park. Outdoors, my reception is 5 bars, nearly always. Again.. I strongly attribute this to the phone I'm using. I'll never go near Motorola again, because of this.

Always get full bars, great reception, no major problems. Very rarely a scratchy call, but thats very sparse. I love it, and wouldnt change my voice plan for anyone else.

sprint is an overall very good company in covrage and everything elese they offer

I had Sprint first and that was on and of inside my house and really depended on what part of the house I was in. Then I had Cingular for 2 years and it was great for the Jersey area but it was as dead as a corpse inside the house, in fact and gsm phone is no good in side my house. When I switched to Verizon I am now able to get a signal everywhere in my home including my basement and in the Jersey area I have yet to drop a call. I'll probably stick with Verizon for as long as possible.

Great reception. No handoff problems when moving from one side of the building to the other and I even get a couple of bars inside the elevator.

Cingular has done something with the network in the last year that is unbelievable! When I used TMobile's network service sucked and either I couldnt make / receive calls or they would drop at random.. Now with the new Cingular everything is perfect, elevators work, basement works.. I guess they are really raising the bar.. And I heard Cingular is getting channels from TMobile now so service is only getting better.. I recommend!

great reception here, in and out of building

Great service no matter where I went. Good reception inside my apartment.

Great reception - I've never had any trouble with it, and I've come to like Verizon. I'd definitely recommend!

Service is great around here.. Got this phone with dual band technology that works a lot better than the old one only PCS. No dropped calls and circuits available every time I need. And Verizon sucks around here.. not sure if it is the phone or the network, maybe both..