I've only had Verizon for a little over a month, but my experience has been good so far. Just switched from TMobile, which also had good reception, just a lousy selection of phones. I bought the phone in CA and migrated here to NY. Perfect reception in both places, even in elevators. No static, no dropped calls. I especially like the fact that no matter where you go in the US, you're not roaming.

Sprint PCS really does suck! I just got my 3rd replacement phone and it doesn't work, I would call Sprint to cancel but I can't, It doesn't hold a charge and I can't even log on to the network to send a text. I would use a can and a string before I spend another dollar with sprint. James

Very good reception, but only average selection of phone models to chose from

No service at all in office. Have to go out into the street where the service is intermitant.

Up until recently, reception and call quality has usually been fine. For the past couple of days, however, I have been experiencing dropped calls (irrespective of the location of the person with whom I'm talking). When I look at the reception meter, the number of bars fluctuates quickly from 2 to 5. Could this all be a function of a failing battery? I've had the same battery for a couple of years.

Perfect reception.

On this block and in my building, I get perfect reception. When moving toward the inner part of the building, signal strength drops slightly, but I still retain the ability to make calls even inside the elevator.

Verizon reception has been almost perfect all over Manhattan

Way too many droped calls, coutmer service and the insurance policy sucks.

Surprisingly good reception. Absolutely no problems outside and fairly reliable inside (even in the bathroom :-) Overall, I didn't have too many complaints about Sprint in the city. I could make long taxi rides on the phone without dropped calls. Not that it even comes close to quality of service in Europe or Asia, but that's another story.