Closest ATT Cell is in an adjoining town on the other side of a ridge which makes up the Mount Pleasant area of Providence. Often had to go outside to complete a call. Reception improves as I go up the hill... .. Sprint (otoh) has two local cell sites in the area, 300 yards and the other 1 / 4 mile. ATT drops calls, Sprint gives me 5 bars all the time; 3 in my basement!

I have never had any reception problems anywhere in Providence or where I live in Warren,RI. The only issues I've encountered are with other people calling me with differant service.

Sometimes I'll have good reception, and then out of no where the call will drop. 98% of the time I cannot receive Direct Connect either. My husband has a Sprint Sanyo with Nextel Direct Connect and it has worse reception than my phone.

No problems since they put up a new tower! Great!

i have never in the time I owned a phone had a dropped call from verizon. Since I moved to Rhode Island from Pennsylvania; My calls are dropped at lest once a day. It's ridiculous. I don't get very good reception either especially over by the brown campus.

Verizon gets ok to excellent reception around most of Providence. The problem is their reception is absolutely terrible inside most buildings, especially in my house. Drat.

Have not had a dropped call in this area. They must have new towers around here because all the bars are up on my phone. Customer service I must say was pretty bad when they were Cingular but since they switched over to AT&T their customer service has somewhat improved.

Great site. Thanks! I used to have no problems with Verizon until I moved to the Northeast (from Midwest). I drop at least one call per day (VZ can run a report for the last 6 months and credit you for dropped calls). Service has gotten worse in this area from 1-2 bars 6 months ago to zero (EVDO only) to 1 bar within the last month (this is outside my house not inside!). I have swapped out my phone 4 times, each time for a refurbished VX8300. I was finally told that the newer phones work off the EVDO network and have better reception (not sure exactly how that works but it probably has to do with maintaining consistency in signal strength). VZ's solution for my problems is they would give me the 2-year contract rate on a new phone. Unfortunately, it will cost me over $250 for a (nice, comparable) new phone with no guarantees of improved call quality or less dropped calls. So do I break my contract for $100 or stick with the most reliable (for dropping calls and poor reception) network? Hmmm...

Varies between zero and three bars. Dropped calls, sound cutting out, callers going straight to voicemail, etc. I was pretty happy with T-Mobile when I lived on the East Side, but over here it's terrible. Also pretty spotty on RIC campus, but better outside buildings.

Perfect reception haven't had a problem yet in the surrounding Providence Area. However on route 146 North there is a dead spot near the 146A / 146North Worcester split.

No pbl with Sprint reception inside the two building I lived in, one in Providence, one in Cranston. Can't complain about coverage in Providence area.

Awful, cannot make a phone call in Federal Hill area at all

The coverage is one minute wonderful, but then it dissapears for 5-10 mins. It seems that on Cingular on the east side of providence (and on the west side to an extent), I keep being bounced around to different systems, some better than others. In my house I sometimes have good coverage (3 bars) but usually have none. At work it varies from no coverage to full coverage, with no known modifiable factors on my part

Verizon Wireless has almost no reception anywhere in Pawtuxet Village. Repeated complaints to Verizon Wireless has resulted in a change of phones, to a Tri-Mode, however, that has not solved the problem. Supposedly there is a tower on or near Thurbers Avenue, about, six minutes away, but, it certainly doesn't help reception.

Please, please, pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Do Not BUY NEXTEL / Sprint SERVICE! I have no reception and called to tell them how terribe it was, they told me that I should read my contract, and service is not always guarenteed. I was pissed, so I hung up and called back. Someone by the name of Patrick, was chewing in my ear, and told me that it did not matter if I was not getting service and that I had to pay my bill anyway, I sked to have a copy of my phone calls sent to me and he said, "You better get a lawyer for that." I then hung up on him and a manager later called and told me that, "Nextel does not have to provide consistent service all the time". DON'T DO IT!

How do I lose my calls? Let me count the ways. When my call is actually connected, my reception is fine, but fifty percent of my calls are lost when I use my phone in my home. Outside, on the street, I have no complaints about my phone or service at all. What is it about me being inside my house that makes my calls become lost?

I joined Nextel a few years ago because my mother had the phone for work. What a mistake that was. I've had nothing but horrible horrible reception everywhere I go. I've called and complained on more than one occassion, had the phone and / or parts of the phone replaced about seven times and they've even shut off my cell phone on mistake... TWICE! Besides service, they are way too expensive and the phones break all the time. My one suggestion - stay away from Nextel!

I travel between Providence and Washington DC a lot. I always have reception and most of the time I'm at four or Five Bars. Inside buildings, even in basements, I'm good to go. I really think the phone itself has a major say in the reception. I've traveled into rural parts of Virginia and MASS on Verizon with my Samsung and been just fine. I've used T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T and none of them compare to the reception I get with Verizon. Just don't buy a LG phone if you go with Verizon. My experience with LG products has been horrible... but that's just me.

Nextel coverage has steadily declined since the merger... dropped calls, unable to call out, unable to direct connect to someone who is right next to me that has full bars. Customer service is no help whatsoever, and the corporate store in Seekonk just told us to "Swap out your phone." I doubt the problem is with the phone when more than a few people I know are getting "Network busy" or "Try again later" messages. Nextel sucks.

my phone gets good reception jus about everywhere I go. its okay in tha stores its ok on tha highway but I lose it wen I go underground liek most fones