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Poor reception inside the house, 1 bar max, little better if you go outside, 2-3 bars. Incoming calls are hit or miss for pickup.

Along Rt. 50, cell phone drops near Rosslyn, Ft. Myer, Harrison Street, and Arlington Forest Area. Seems to be worse in the last two months. Not the same as AT&T.

Almost none from second floor apartment. Drops calls.

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 hear other people rave about their reception in D.C. with Verizon, but my reception since I arrived here last month has been terrible. In Arlington, VA, right across the river from D.C., my phone has one bar most of the time, often zero (i.e. no signal), and is substantially unusable from many places where you would expect service to be available - on major throughfares, etc. Not sure if it's just this phone model or what, but it's so bad I'm thinking of terminating my contract early, paying the money, and switching carriers.

Sprint constantly drops calls on Route 7, 66 East and West around the beltway, Dulles Toll Road, and in most buildings around the fairfax area.

Constantly dropped calls inside and outside my apartment. Recently has gotten much worse. Cannot communicate when the phone drops your call! Went to Sprint store in Baileys Crossroads and had two dropped calls from inside the store. Not sure what service would be better, but this is terrible.

I have experienced dropped calls for every singe conversation. I have even trouble with a girl I am dating. She is mad at me. She is convinced that have hung up the phone on her more than twice while talking to me. Some friends stop calling me as well because of this dropped calls nightmare with Sprint. As I am writing this comment, The Sprint Network is unavailable. It's been more than 30 minutes since I am not able to make a phone call and worst, I don't have a land line. I have switched two weeks ago from Verizon to Sprint due to cheaper plan. I will cancel my service with Sprint tomorrow morning and reactivate my service with Verizon. The plan I have with Sprint is $ 99.99. The same plan costs 139.99 with Verizon. But I agree to pay this S40.00 extra with Verizon for peace of mind. I have never experienced dropped calls with Verizon in my appartment which is very open. Sprint just sucks in the area where I live.

Cingular has very poor reception in this area. 0-2 bars outside - I need to walk a block to Columbia Pike to even get reception some nights. I have called several times - they are verbally responsive - but always suggest the same actions which are ineffective ('updates' for my phone, and submit a ticket to chek out reception in the area).

3rd floor condo has excellent reception and no dropped calls. I usually average 3-4 bars.