i love my phone.

T-Mobile reception is really decent. I've used my phone on the bus, downtown, during storms and outages, and I've only had like one dropped call. Voice clarity is excellent as well but I think that may be the phone more than the network. T-Mobile is definitly a great option for Dayton, OH.

I've never have had any luck with this company. Every time that I make a call, it drops. I have had the phone replaced 3 times and it still drops calls. But AT&T still maintains that the network works fine its the phone.

I get one or two bars in some areas in Dayton, Ohio area(in my home 1 or 2 bars 0 in the basement is there a force shield? When I'm in Springfield, Ohio I get one bar in some areas. and in certain areas depends on where I am I can sometimes get 3, 4, 5 bars. Why is that?

Works good till you go North on Main st 15 blocks

I don't know what it is. Out near Central State and Wilberforce in Xenia, T-Mobile gets "No Service." I'm guessing there are no T-Mobile towers near the vacinity.

No reception within the office building

I have 3 bars now, but wait five minutes. sitting in the same spot, I won't have any signal. WooHoo--Go Nextel.

There is one area that I will drop the call every time 1/2 mile down the road things are average.

This problem began recently. I cannot use my Verizon phone from inside my office. I called Verizon and they said it was because I was near a military base. However the base they indicated has been defunct for several years... .. Other people in the area that use Verizon have also lost signal strength.

Terrible reception, if any. If I move the phone from one ear to the other while I'm talking, the call will drop. I used to have AT&T (GSM) and had no problems at all in this area. I'm not sure if it's the phone model or not (my gf has the same phone with the same problems) but I usually only get 1 bar of service at most.

I only get one bar (sometimes none) but when I have the one bar I seem to be able to make calls. Wireless Internet connection sometimes cuts out.

On rt. 4 between 235 and the Harshman rd. exit the reception is poor to none and the call usually drops.

Don't even attempt it. The back roads here are horrid with all the trees and the distance from the tower.

I haven't dropped a call, but sometimes I lose some words in the conversation. My Samsung seems to do better than my wife's Kyocera.

I have bad reception in buildings by Kettering Hospital. Outside can get some service. This is the place in Dayton Area that I have noticed poorest reception.

i live right near a tower so it works great

Terrible reception in Oakwood! Countless dropped calls... usually only 1 bar of service, especially in Oakwood neighborhood west of Far Hills.

I started with AT&T cell phones when they came in a bag the size of a purse. These were analog (1G ?) phones and always worked. Switched to hand held when 2G technology came along -- nothing but trouble -- AT and T did not work half the time in Belmont area. They replaced phone twice, and I finally bought the top of the line model with my own money but nothing helped. At the time I was unable to return the expensive phone even though it didn't work any better. Eventually I got so mad I switched to a Sprint 2G phone. From day 1 barely had any Sprint service inside the house. I had Sprint reps try all sorts of stuff -- their favorite was "turn phone off and re-start since we upgrade software for better performance almost daily". This didn't help. If I "roamed" (which put me on AT and T service even though Sprint was supposedly available) I always had great service. We fooled around with Sprint for about half the 2-year contract. Finally went back to AT and T when travel forced me to get a phone that would work where I was needed to travel for work. Sprint simply didn't work some places and had no coverage at the time. AT and T was no better than Sprint -- even after they upgraded phones from 2G to 3G models. I finally got a 3G phone that actually worked pretty good at home and have been using it for years. I finally had to replace this phone, and the AT and T phone I got as a replacement (a Samsung) is a piece of junk. It hardly works anywhere. I have replaced it twice now, and I am not being told to "upgrade to 4G" because it should work better. If you look at AT and T service map, it claims good coverage all over most of Dayton area. Same with Verizon. At least Sprint's (3G) Voice map is honest -- it shows variations block-to-block on where coverage is Good, Fair, or Poor. From my experiences with Sprint this map seems to be very honest. AT and T's map shows only a few "weak" areas and no areas show with poor or no service. This is plain dishonest. Now AT and T says I should upgrade to a 4G phone (requiring a long-term commitment or large cash outlay) to get good service! Even with the better AT and T phone I had for years, I had noticed reductions in service quality over the last year or so. Lots of dropped calls, lots of "no network" when a call is attempted. Lots of "no rings". Sometimes you call someone and the phone rings and when it is answered, the phone goes dead. (The ringtone you hear is not the actual phone ringing but a recording of a phone ringing they play while the connection is established. You can call your own cell phone from another phone and see how this works.) As if all the bad service is not bad enough, sometimes voice mails take hours or even days to come through! I have been told that parts of the Belmont area is in valleys, older houses like built in Belmont block 3G signals and every other excuse imaginable. I talked with an AT&T land-line representative when the land line phone went out after a storm. I mentioned that I was having a lot of trouble with AT&T cellular and they said that is why they don't recommend relying on only a cell phone -- because cell phones (even AT and T network phones) are too unreliable! I think the real reason for the problems are that AT and T has too many phones in use for the amount of equipment in place -- a tower can only carry so many calls at one time. When the local tower gets overwhelmed, you get switched to another tower which may have marginal performance, or simply get dropped. A Sprint representative told me when I had the Sprint phone why roaming on AT and T worked better than when I had AT and T equipment. He said AT and T makes more money on roaming and out-of-network call handling than on those made by AT and T flat-rate customers, so when your call comes in and they see you are an AT and T flat rate customer, you are put in the background when more profitable calls are also being handled. I was told by at AT and T representative that AT and T has stopped putting money into any new 3G towers in Dayton area, spending all money on new construction on 4G equipment only. Meanwhile, AT and T and others are using the AT and T equipment more and more for "throwaway" phones, out-of-network calls, etc. More and more 3G phones are in use every day. More and more minutes are used on these phones daily. More and more demand with wireless internet over 3G etc. But no new towers or equipment to support the increased load. Eventually, everyone will be forced to move to 4G even if they don't want to. The 3G systems will simply be turned off and by then there will probably be 5G and maybe even 6G phones out there. Since most cell phone towers are either near each other or are shared by several companies, the Sprint coverage maps for Dayton seem to be in general a good guideline to most 3G systems regardless of carrier.

Except for Fall Of 2007 Sprint coverage has been great,they are far better than they are given credit for