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Sprint Rating Sprint 3.08 13
Verizon Rating Verizon 2.88 41
AT&T Rating AT&T 2.77 22
T-Mobile Rating T-Mobile 2.24 37
Nextel Rating Nextel 1.09 23

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Carrier / Rating Location / Comment Date
Sprint
5 Out of 5
5 Out of 5

Phone Model:
Blackberry Pearl
17th and Ben Franklin, Philadelphia, PA 19113 Sun Aug 02, 2009

Perfect service, I cant remember ever not having service or dropping a call. A+++

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Sprint
5 Out of 5
5 Out of 5

Phone Model:
Samsung MM-A920 (SPH-A920)
Roos. Blvd. / Magee Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19149 Sat Jul 04, 2009

I was with Cingular. Sure I had 3600 rollover minutes, my phone didn't work in my house. Every call had to be done standing on my outside steps. Switched to Sprint--Perfection, perfect on all floors of my house, perfect going down my cement basement steps. Works everywhere, inside and out. Contract will be up soon. I'm not paying for their $100.00 "everything" plan. Will probaly switch to Virgin Mobile. They use Spirit services and that "everything" plan is under Fifty bucks. Go figure.

Verizon
5 Out of 5
5 Out of 5

Phone Model:
LG VX8300
9th and Chestnut, Philadelphia, PA 19107 Tue Jul 29, 2008

Great signal, never had any issues.

T-Mobile
5 Out of 5
5 Out of 5

Phone Model:
razor
HuntingPark Ave. / Glendale St., Philadelphia, PA 19124 Tue Apr 08, 2008

Great reception usually during the day, after 5 or 6 no reception, dropped calls, calls fail or I get someone else then the intended person I tried calling. Was told by T-Mobile my signal gets scattered and should turn my phone off and then on so that the closest tower will pick up my signal. Nope, I believe the problem is congestion, too many people using cells during the evening hours. I pretty fed up with this losey service and hope T-Mobile will reimburse my lack of use and be held responsible for any emergency that I can not make a call for. NOT HAPPY!

Verizon
5 Out of 5
5 Out of 5

Phone Model:
LG Voyager
12th South / Bainbridge, Philadelphia, PA 19147 Wed Mar 19, 2008

Two years and great call quality. Other than the rediculous high bills, I have have no complaints.

Sprint
5 Out of 5
5 Out of 5

Phone Model:
treo 755
Convention Center / 10th and Race, Philadelphia, PA 19107 Thu Nov 01, 2007

Sprint has great service in this area. No dropped calls for me (5th floor of condo)

T-Mobile
5 Out of 5
5 Out of 5

Walnut / 18th, Philadelphia, PA 19103 Tue Sep 18, 2007

reception is fine. but NO CALLS GET THROUGH. sometimes I have to dial 7+ times to reach someone, and texting is a nightmare of holding the phone in my hands and constantly resending mssgs over and over. lately it's been especially bad, dropped calls and network failures.

Verizon
5 Out of 5
5 Out of 5

Phone Model:
LG Chocolate
23 / Walnut, Philadelphia, PA 19103 Thu Jul 05, 2007

Clear signal, no dropped calls... even works in my basement. Verizon is pricy, but worth it in my experience.

Verizon
5 Out of 5
5 Out of 5

Phone Model:
LG6100
Kensington and Front / Lehigh, Philadelphia, PA 19125 Mon May 28, 2007

Verizon Wireless gets great reception in the Kensington area of Philly. I travel a lot in Eatern USA and have had no trouble with Verizon. (Meanwhile I have a friend who goes for miles and miles on major roads with no reception at all. I'll stick with Verizon!)

Verizon
5 Out of 5
5 Out of 5

Phone Model:
Motorola E815
Wissahickon and Rittenhouse Intersection, Philadelphia, PA 19144 Sun Dec 10, 2006

maybe i'm getting good karma after suffering with reception issues with Cingular for so long, but now with verizon, and with a good phone (probably something to do with it as well) I have not gotten anything less than perfect and I live on the bottom floor of a big building with lots of trees around. Even in the basement level of the apt. complex I get 5 bars. When i'm outta da house, I still have perfect reception. its been so good that if I go down to 3 bars i'm thinking wtf is going on, even 4 bars rarely happens. the only place I have any issues at all is on the basement level of where I go to school, but considering that NOBODY else ever has reception down there no matter what carrier they have, except a few other Verizon people, and the fact that I sometimes have enough bars there to carry out a phone call, i'd say thats pretty good. btw, my problems with Cingular were befor I moved so I have no idea how it measures up in this area.


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