Sprint
FOLLOW-UP PREVIOUS POST BY ME -JP I don't know what Sprint has done, but since I returned to town, from my weeklong trip, on January 17, 2007, I suddenly have had good reception in this area! Before, my calls would last around 30 seconds and would then drop. Now, while the reception is not perfect, I am still able to get enough bars to carry on a conversation. Dropped calls are not nearly as frequent as they were previously when the service first started messing up, around early-to-mid December. Thank you, Sprint for improving the service. If there was some technical problem, I wish you would have had some way of notifying us, the customer, to make us aware so that we could have been be more patient (and give you a chance to work it out). For now, life is pretty good, with respect to my cell phone service. Sincerely, JP
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Oh Man! Where do I start! I got into town in late October 2007. My phone worked fine, in and outside my apartment, which is one of many located around South Normandale in West Fort Worth, just off Camp Bowie Road, near its intersection with highway / loop 820. Around 2 1 / 2 to 3 weeks ago, my phone started dropping calls. I could watch the signal strength bars as they went from four bars to none, over and over. When I made phone calls, I had around 10-15 seconds to talk, then the call would drop. I had to wait a second or two before I got bars to call again. I only have a cell phone so you can imagine my frustration. I thought that maybe the phone was messed up, but my roommate, who also has Sprint, said he had been having the same problem, going back two or three weeks. He has resorted to going outside into the cold when he has to make a call, and the calls still drop. Frustrated, I called Sprint to find out what the heck was going on. I called while driving on North Loop 820. The second time I got through to an agent (the first call dropped, but that was understandable considering there "ain't much out in NorthWest Fort Worth), I was transferred to service, but that call dropped too. For now, my reception problem will have to remain a mystery. But when I move a a few months, if my house has this type of reception, I may have to invite friends with different phones over to the house to see if ANY work. This has been a pitiful and shameful display of either Sprint's technological prowess, or their ignoring of the area I live in. Either way, I lose, and the company has failed to provide me the service I am paying over $150.00 a month for. Sincerely, JP
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Very Poor reception. Can move a few feet and it imporves and if you move a few more feet is is poor. Cingular needs to beef up their signal strength here, they know where the pockets of poor reception are and now with ATT they will probably cut back on budget for improving their signal strength in areas such as in Fort Worth where their signal is weak
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Cingular with a new Motorola phone was horrible out here. Then I tried a Nokia phone with Cingular, and it works great, even all through my house.
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After years of not having problems, the past few weeks have been horrible. Can't get a signal in the house (and I work out of my home so it is VERY important!) Dropped calls, can hear the caller but they can't hear me and vice versa. I've been told they are working on the towers but who knows?
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You don't get any reception inside buildings (schools, houses with attics, clubs, etc.) And I don't think it's just the RiVerSide area, but the whole city of Fort Worth.
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I get 1 bar and usually drops all calls. T-Mobile is so bad, I could be driving and is just drops the call showing no signal them instantly shows full signal area.
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I had a prepaid Samsung with Verizon that worked fine in my house in north benbrook. I now have a LGVX3300 and even with a replacement on the phone, I do not get hardly any reception. I'm assuming this is a phone problem because the prepaid phone worked. I'm in a 2 year contract and Verizon says there are holes where you get no reception (standard answer to cover things that can't be explained I think). I will pay my 2 years and eventually find a phone with excellent reception but will lower my package to the lowest price per month allowed and I will not renew. It's sad when you have no reception in your home in the middle of the dallas / fort worth metroplex. Just maybe be honest with me and tell me the phone might be junk. I can live with that and move on.
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Cingular is odd. Regularly when sitting at this light my reception will go from 3 bars to 0. The phone will then switch to Roam at 2 bars. Then a few seconds later the signal switches back to Cingular at 3 bars. This all while sitting still at the stop light waiting for it to turn green. ie. Not Moving! I've dropped dozens of calls right at this spot.
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Actually this happens while just sitting on my sofa. I'm not even driving in a car. At random times decent signal will suddenly drop and the phone goes to Roam. Then a few seconds later it goes back to Cingular.
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