At my parent's house, sprint has a tower within a quarter mile and they do really well there. Where I live, the only cellphones that work are Verizon. Having had 3 coworkers on sprint - yeah, it has some fast spots but most spots are just horrid. Can't count the number of times they'd go to pull up a webpage on their phones during lunch and several mins later they'd still be trying to load the page while I'd have near max reception with LTE. Sprint has gotten better but still doesn't come close to Verizon. -- 2 hours north east of Los Angeles.