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I can not make a call in my house and outside is not much better. Sprint customer for over 5 years, but no more. My contract is up and I am looking for better. Stay away from Sprint in Columbia unless you live under a tower...

Actually have Suncom service and have no complaints expept cannot use cell phone at home. Get one to no bars even standing put in the street. Also does not work when I am in my office on Platt Springs Rd.in West Columbia. I am near a window but do not get but one bar and then it will drop the call. Drops all calls when only 1 bar is showing. Very aggravating that I see everyone els's phones working but not mine.

Alltel sucks around Columbia. You are always roaming and in alot of places have no service. Inside Williams Brice Stadium you get no signal while Cingular gets 4 bars. I wouldnt recommend Alltel to anyone

In my house, no matter what room I'm in my reception is "iffy" very, and I do mean very, seldom do I get 3 to all five bars, but its all about where i'm standing. Outside the reception is better, but no matter where i'm going in Columbia, SC, my calls get dropped at least once a day. It could be the other person's phone, but majority of the time when I look at my phone after the call is dropped, the colors of my bars have gone grey and I have lost all service. Then it comes back in a matter of some seconds.

Never lost a call with verizon, even out in swansea.

I used to haver perfect reception; 4-5 bars. Now, 1-2. I don't get it. Even took the phone in for tech check and update. Most frustrating.

Travel extensively around Columbia and surrounding cities for work, use Alltel for work phone. Have Verizon for personal phone. Have never had one problem with Alltel in any area. Verizon is spotty, which suprised me because they are usually the best everywhere. I-20 towards Florence is really poor, and interstates are poor aruond columbia as well. Alltel would be my choice here.

Verizon is the best! My family has Alltel and Nextel and they keep asking to use my phone because they do not get reception in most places! Feels good to be a part of the most reliable network!

The Cingular / ATT merger has meant absolutely nothing for Cingular customers in SC. Even though AT&T had substantial 800 MHz GSM network and infrastructure here Cingular either didn't buy it or else let SunCom buy it in this state. Cingular apparently will not contract with Suncom so that customers here will have "more bars in more places". Even if you have a dual band phone, it is of no benefit whatsoever if you live in this state. You only have access to the very poorly performing 1.9 GSM Cingular network. It is bad business ethics for Cingular to run those ads for "more bars in more places' in this state because it is clearly misleading to potential customers. Yet on one seems to realize that Cingular is doing this. It simply unbelievable. Wireless customers are victimized because they don't understand the various wireless technologies. I have switched to one of the 800 MHz CDMA providers. The difference in signal strength is unbelievable, and the attitude of customer service is wonderful. I don't see how Cingular gets away with the things it does. I hope more Cingular customers in SC will wake up and realize that all this talk about the meger (more bars in more places) means nothing for customers based in SC. Is is indeed sad when a large wireless provider can get away with this.

I have been a Sprint customer for 6 years, and loved every minute of it (I was even a sales rep for one summer). I bought a house recently and unfortunately receive NO service at all inside the home - and poor service in the street). After jumping through the many hoops with customer / techincal help, they have determined I am in a dead spot between two towers. My friends get perfect service with Verizon, Cingular and Alltel. I am switching to a new provider tomorrow; however, I am quite sad to be leaving Sprint.