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Poor reception on 1st floor of my house and a dropped call now and again. Reception is better on the front porch or upstairs. Clear reception outdoors and never had a dropped call while talking outside. Good reception where I work downtown but no signal in the building. Averages out to a two bar rating...

Very poor Sprint reception with only one-two bars in the house and calls dropped on a regular basis.

I got decent reception until about 2 months ago. Same problem happened in the past with both Verizon and now with Alltel - it was a bad cell in the tower. There are 3 towers in my area. I actually got to speak to an intelligent rep in the Home Office last week and he sent me a map showing he coverage in my area. Seems I am now on the FRINGE of Alltel's service. I can use my phone with 5 bars in almost any place except my home. I have to go outside and it still has me moving like an animated antenna to keep the call from disconnecting. I have a friend also on the Alltel service and their phone has no signal at my home. I guess I'm lucky to have 1 or 2 bars most of the time when sitting on my porch, compared to 0-1 depending where I am when inside the home. The only answer seems to be: purchase Alltel's new wireless booster for $299.99 It seems to me that since I was getting decent service and now they have me on Fringe Service that they should provide the booster FREE of CHARGE. It's kind of amazing too that the map says there's no EVDO service in my area, but the icon is lite-up on my phone. It took Alltel 4 months last time to find the bad cell in the tower. Maybe they decided not to replace it and to cut back the area of service - thereby putting me into their Fringe Area. Cost vs Customer?

We chose Verizion when we first moved here because of the good overage 3 years ago. About a year ago we started to experience poor to no reception where we use to get good reception. Over the past 6-8 months we started to experience numerous dropped calls. Now I can not talk to my family longer than 5 minutes without the call being dropped. Many times the phone will beep telling me I have voice mail but the phone never rang. I work in Mt. Pleasant and I experience the same problems. I have also noticed a significant decrease in the quality of voice even with good signal strenght. I will have to ask people to repeat them self all the time.

I have had both Sun Com and Cingular and the reception is bad to say the least. There is a major hospital and a university two blocks from were I live and with all the business around US 78 and I-26 you would think the reception would be better?

Att is terrible pretty much everywhere except out in the open.

Worst reception ever, have to go upstairs to window for it to work. My aunt comes over with Verizon and gets full bars and very fast, I wouldn't recomend Sprint at all.

Verizon coverage on Daniel Island has gotten worse over the past 2 weeks. What is going on?????

dropped calls, fading in and out, phone doesn't ring for incoming calls and no show in missed calls either.

Reception in my house varies between zero and 1 bar. Often have to stand by window near southern side of the house to get any reception. The kids often go outside to try to get better reception. 3 / 4 of a mile north I get no reception at all in my mother-in-laws house and brother's house in MacLaura Hall Subdivision. 3 / 4 miles west / northwest get no reception in my other brother's house. Truly hard to understand how an area so densely populated could have such awful coverage. I am switching to Verizon because my neice's friend visited here with her and had good reception at all of the above locations. Keeping my fingers crossed! Thank God for the 30 day trial period!