I'm on Boost Mobile (Nextel prepaid) and for the most part, I can get 4 to 5 bars but lately the network drops a lot of calls and bounces from 4 to 5 bars to 2 bars. Almost cycling the signal every few minutes. The data connection goes from average to so bad that my phone has locked-up on me a couple of times to the point where the browser froze up the phone and I couldn't shut it down unless I pulled out the battery. This was all during last month when I tried the $50 unlimited plan. One day, I was talking outside my home and the network cut off my call and the screen read 'no service' for over an hour..On top of the direct connect (walkie-talkie) service is usually only intermittent, it works good for about 10 minutes until the user i'm connected with is either 'not available' or 'user in data'... Well I went back to pay as you go this month..Really frustrated by all of the Boost / Nextel connection issues in my location..