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every once in a while the towers are down Sprint is by far the worst service provider

Sprint has been on EVDO all day with no roaming. I've confirmed this with my wife's Blackberry and a coworkers Blackberry. I'm not sure what's going on but it's been nice! Could Sprint really have upgraded here?!?

Sprint is terrible in many areas of Hobbs, Ruidoso, and Las Cruces. My daughter can chat away with her Alltel service in the areas where even if I can get a connection established, it's immediately dropped. I am counting the days until my contract ends with Sprint. By the way, my experience with Leaco cellphones wasn't great either, but Sprint is by far the worse of the two.

In the office building I work in, the calls come thru but will get dropped. I drive from hobbs to el paso once a week and dont have coverage from the hobbs airport to Carlsbad. No coverage out of carlsbad to the city limits in el paso--except for one spot just past the reststop in texas. Not very comforting. In hobbs, calls get dropped frequently. I cant wait to switch services.

We have two phones with Sprint. Both usually have two or three signal bars at best. Both lines go in and out of service area even while we are standing in our backyard... in town... in the service area. Technical support advises us to power-down our phones for a few minutes to reconnect to the tower. (I can't count the number of time we've done that. It doesn't help.) Our two-year contract is up next month and we will not renew with Sprint.

Sprint is good for major cities and Interstate Highways. Since SE NM has neither, and Sprint puts in one tower in a town and expects it to cover everything, I am moving to Alltel. I wish I could get Verizon. But Alltel has a strong network here because they absorbed the former Cellular One network and merged all of that into their own. Regarding you folks who are complaining about Santa Fe, my sister-in-laws Alltel phone works in her home in the hills just outside downtown and my stupid Sprint phone is marginal if it works at all... ditto other family members T-Mobile and other carriers. I am trying to get rid of my employer-provided Sprint phone and already cancelled my wife's Sprint phone and am moving to Alltel. Hey, it works well all over here. Different strokes...

Sprint coverage varies around town, depending on where you are and even what building you are in. I get anywhere from 1 to 5 bars. But for the most part it is 3 to 5 bars. In town I have had some dropped calls. But, out of town coverage is very spotty. Dropped calls are more frequent out of town. And once 10 to 15 miles out of town, you go on roam, unless headed toward Lovington or Seminole.