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Lyon Village Apartments are hard on cell phones, which is too bad because of the free high-speed internet in the apartments and garden style layout making this a particularly good place to ditch the land line. Best reception is near windows; residents routinely use the courtyard.

Get excellent reception inside my apartment- The Windsor at Shirlington Village. Probably because building is wood. Used to live up the hill (Shirlington House) and got no reception because it was brick.

Almost none from second floor apartment. Drops calls.

Calls go straigt to VM or drop out after you connect.

i am on a Sprint phone, and have had pretty good luck in and around the district - no major problems. the service and reception with my phone is good in all areas that I have been around, which include the district, arlington, alexandria, and mclean, EXCEPT for in my apartment. which is at virginia square. but it might be due to the fact that I am on a high floor. on the ground, everything is good.

I am receiving constant complaints that I cannot be heard on the other end of the line. Seldom if ever do I have problems hearing the other person, but seemingly on every other call I am told that I am breaking up. This is a relatively new development and the "number of bars" doesn't seem to be the problem. I also have a colleague with a similar model phone experienceing the same problem so I know it isn't a simply a defect in my phone. I have also updated my firmware and prl data so I am pretty much at a loss and extremely frustrated. Only a few months ago my calls were rock solid. What could have changed?

Sprint has worked well in this area and never a dropped call in Arlington. I can even hold a conversation in a 20 + floor building elevator. There is NO reception in the metro, but to be expected unless you use Verizon. I've heard that they are the only carrier with coverage in the metro. As for Sprint, I've had some dropped calls when I'm in the city, but overall it has been quite good.

I get 4 "deceiving" bars of service most of the time, yet I have to dial 20 times or more to place a call and I usually give up. Each time it says "Connecting" then "Redialing" then "No Service Available" then "Entering Sprint Service Area" all in a few seconds. Very frustrating. Sometimes it works just fine, and then half way through a call it will stop working - either fading completely or the other person cannot hear me speak or hears digital noise.

Has good reception when ur outside on the ground. Doesn't work at all inside the crystal city shops (underground). Don't even think abt using it in metro if ur travelling underground. If you've roaming enabled then it "might" work in analog mode. I spent at least 2-3 hrs in the metro or waiting for the train (underground station).. and sprint is really useless for that part of the day. Have really wondered abt the service provider where some people can use their mobile even through the biggest stretches of the metro underground. If ur a metro commuter.. throw sprint away.

No reception on our street at all. The reception on Lee Highway all the way to DC is spotty at best.