Sprint is the only company I've ever had. It has always worked everywhere I've been. Except inside my house in southeast Travis County. It fluctuates wildly inside the house and usually will drop a call 80% of the time. Outside the house the signal is better, but less than 3 bars. Less than 1 / 4 mile away I get near perfect reception. I must be on the edge of 2 different towers and the signal is being transferred between them too rapidly. Such is the nature of CDMA. One caveat is I have solar shielding in my roof. This tends to affect all weak radio signal reception inside the house. I don't think any other carrier is goin to be any better until the gap is filled by another tower.

I've had Verizon for six years and have gotton great reception all over austin, in south elgin on 969 and in bastrop on 95. I moved just over a year ago to the cedar creek / del valle area on 2430 / 812 and have horrible reception at my house. Have to stand next the windows facing east or stand in the eastern part of my yard. Also get no reception on certain areas of hwy71 in bastrop and in areas of north elgin. I'm dissapointed with the phone replacement plan. I have to pay $5 for insurance every month and every time I need to replace my phone its a $50 deductable. The past three years I've had a share plan with two phones, they are the primary phones, we talk when we want however much we want and it cost between $94-$97 a month.

I actually have 3phones, the Treo, a Motorola 440 and a Samsung 427 and get great reception on all three. Such good reception that I have never had to deal with customer service so I can not comment on that. My service with ATT and now Cingular has always exceeded what appears to be other peoples experience.