I have had Sprint, Cingular, T-Mobile and now Sprint, again. I was not able to get Cingular and T-Mobile calls in my house or within about 2 blocks. My son has ATT which seems to work fine, though I understand that ATT and T-Mobile both use Cingular's system here in No. Cal (as they are all GSM.)

I have not had any problems with my current Sprint service and had no problems with their customer service (had questions about my first bill and they answered promptly and resolved quickly.)

I hear Verizon really does have great coverage and fewer dropped calls, but their phones and service is much more expensive and no UA miles.

Of course, it seems that the expectations are still way too high as I read about problems that all service providers are having.

Of course, I remember my first cell phone back in 1985 and you want to talk about expensive, poor service.