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Sprint works fine in my office and on local roads (except for one place on the 460 bypass on the way to Christiansburg) but it's terrible in the house-- only one or two rooms are barely tolerable.
Reception in blacksburg is garbage compared to VZW. I tried out the RAZR when to get a GSM phone instead of CDMA, and the service kept cutting off if I moved. In my APT. I had no service. I had to go outside and find a spot where I could get coverage.
I've gotten 1-4 bars everywhere in blacksburg / christiansburg. I've used it on Campus, Oakbridge, Tech Terrace, Foxridge, and Terrace View apts without any dead spots. Used to be that there were several dead spots, but now there aren't any, except in McBryde. The good thing about Verizon / Sprint in general is that they use CDMA technology which gives you clear calls even on 1 bar, so that's all you need pretty much. With Cingular / TMobile, they use GSM - where every bar makes a difference in audio quality.
I very rarely have reception problems in any areas that I go. All of Bburg, Cburg, Radford, and all surrounding areas are great, usually 4-5 bars. Even travelling on Price's Fork between Bburg and Radford when most people I know calls get lost I still have at least 2 bars. I do have a random going into roaming problem. This occurs at various spots around town. If it happens to kick into roaming when I'm on a call it will drop. But this doesn't happen often enough to be too bothered by it since most other times I always have reception even when my b / f's Verizon phone does not.
Little reception inside of our apartment, you have to go outisde to ensure your call not being lost. On Campus it works great with the exception of being inside a few buildings...
reception is good everywhere on campus if youre outside. take 2 steps into any building and youre probably out of luck. in pritchard, my phone works ok if I force it into analog. digital works near the windows. it works pretty well in owens and dietrick. right at 9, its rare to get a call through on the first try.
