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I recently moved here from Michigan - I had FANTASTIC reception there. Now, if I'm on the UNR campus, I have to be on the western edge of campus, facing west, standing outside - and even then I'll only have 2 bars... MAYBE.
There is no reception inside any buildings in the UNR area. There is poor reception with many dropped calls outside on the UNR campus. Do NOT get Alltel as your carrier if you are going to UNR!
Generally I get full reception here, but twice since I moved here a month ago I have lost ALL reception for the entire day, no matter where I go. I don't know why this happened but it is extremely irritating.
It seems that no matter where I go I get 5 bars unless of course I'm at work upstairs at one of the concourses of the Airport. It seems to be this specific phone's doing though, not the provider since it doesn't have towers of its own so I can't give them credit. Instead I would reccomend anyone going with Cricket (if you really have to!) to purchase this phone since it seems like one of the few that manages to still transfer data, receive calls and send / receive texts even where my coworkers can't. It works fine in my apartment which is surrounded by tons of trees and other apartment buildings. I can't even get satellite here and this thing works. But again, it's the phone, not the provider.
Almost no connection inside of the house (which is also my home office), outside it goes from 1 to 2 bars. That means that my data plan on the blackberry is really under-utilized, since most of the time there's no way I can get the necessary level. The whole Damonte Ranch area is really not served enough. The right zip code is 89521, had to modify the form for this post because it didn't recognize it.
