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Verizon works very well nationwide (I travel frequently). The only dead zone I have found unfortunately is my house in Lagomar. Looking at the tower locations, hopefully when they combine Alltel and Verizon towers it will get better since Alltel Tower is close.

Man this phone is bad at my house. But, once I leave my place leave its pretty good thru out the Hampton Roads area.

few bars. Picture and file transfer messages are slow.

I lose coverage at least 2 times during my short 10 mile commute in Virgnia Beach. I'm so glad my contract with Sprint is up.

I have a 3 bar TX signal and a 1 bar EVDO signal on my cell phone. I recently purchased a Verizon broadband modem (air card) for Internat access which uses the EVDO signal for broadband speeds. If I plug in the booster antenna that came with the modem and put the antenna in a window, I can achieve broadband speeds on my modem.

The map shows two towers located within a mile of my home, but neither is owned by Sprint... my reception drops off repeatedly in the house, but works ok outside. Less than 3 / 4 mile from me, on Lynnhaven Pwy near Albright, there is a "dead zone" where I lose reception totally 9 times out of 10.

ATT / Cingular merger has been a nightmare for the customer in my opinion. Used to have much better reception on Motorola T725's we purchased in 1 / 05. Cingular just came in and made us swap for a choice of 11 inferior phones (so much for the $300 just spent in January). Now come to find out one of the numbers they assigned is considered Long Distance if dialed from a land line here in the area. Called Cingular who is willing to do nothing till they get more numbers which they say could be June. Appears along with poor reception they also are into overbooking their network by selling local service they can not cover.

I also use Suncom. I use to have the Panasonic Allure. The reception was awful and my calls were constantly dropped. Suncom suggested I get another phone. So I upgraded to the Motorola T725, Great phone!... sometimes. My reception is always lost, most of the time, when I am inside of buildings. The worst part is that when the reception is lost, the phone tells me to insert sim card for an hour, preventing me from using the phone at all! I've heard that SunCom has a reception booster you can purchase for approx. $30 but thats just lame.

Suncom AT&T drops calls consistently on Laskin Road, Rt 264, General Booth Blvd and more.... For those not from the area, the first road mentioned is a main Va Beach thoroughfare and to top it off the drop call location is about 2 blocks from a Suncom storefront. Frequent complaints have done nada. Also, voice messages may take up to several days to receive. You could have your phone on while in Target (where there is no reception at all) someone could call, leave a message and you wouldn't know for several days! Also, in recent months it has taken multiple dial outs to actually complete a call. DO NOT USE SUNCOM - THEY SUCK.

Verizon Wireless has spotty coverage. May look around for other providers.