I get excellent service all throughout the west end generally 3 to 4 bars(max) I get 1-3 bars in my house which is good enough to not drop calls.

Worked great for 3 years, 4 months ago signal lost power and won't work for any Sprint phone.

It's not just Sprint; according to T-Mobile and AT&T's websites their reception is shaky at best. I cannot get a straight answer from Verizon on their reception in this area to save my life.

I live between patterson and monument and three chopt. My outside signal is between 1 and 2 bars and my inside is 1. I use a booster antenna from ebay for $60 inside that only brought the bars to 2 or 3, but enough to make a call. The antenna doesn't work now. I get dropped calls around the patterson and westham parkway and of course going to charlottesville on 64 either no reception or dropped calls. Same reception problems with Motorola as with my lg. My friend who has T-Mobile gets full reception in my house and surrounding area plus other areas where I get a weak or no signal.

Works great even though only 3 bars, sometimes 4. No problems, would use Verizon in Crown Grant area.

I've had Sprint for about 10 years and never much liked it. Rarely can I be in the car traveling and not experience dropped calls or bad reception. Reception in West Creek (Goochland) is horrible. Taveling along the Wiley Bridge near Stoney Point is a guaranteed drop call. Reception in my house in Westover Hills is OK, and better than Sprint. When my contract expires in August, I'll be switching carriers. Bottom line: I do not recommend Sprint.

I just switched over to Alltel from Verizon because the building where I worked just wasn't a good area for Verizon. But the Alltel signal is surprisingly stronger and I've not been able to tell anywhere at all that it's any weaker. Alltel is definitely the way to go in this area because it seems like they have an extra tower or two somewhere around here. I'm just overall surprisingly pleased with the coverage and happy that I'm getting many more minutes for the price with Alltel compared to what I use to get since my circle to 10 numbers is basically unlimited calling for both lines in my house.

I wonder if the Radio tower affects the signal

Bars don't mean much. I live 1 / 2 mile from I-95 on Parham Rd.and it is NOT possible to have a phone conversation over 10 minutes without the call being dropped over and over again. Nearly every call gets dropped and picked up again, it's so frustrating I want to throw the phone out the window. I am not sure if the problem is Verizon or the phone model.

Although I get only 2 bars in my basement office the reception is far better than what I got with my Nextel service which was no reception