Sprint coverage in Lakeside/Lester Park?

I switched to Sprint about a year ago and coverage is okay in my house in the Tioga/45th area I get 3 to 4 bars on my iphone.

I live near Lester Park and get 3 to 4 bars as well.  I had some data issues a few months ago but it was because they were updating their towers.

Can't help you on the Sprint stuff, but I'm an AT&T customer living on 50th and Idlewild and we had to get a Microcell.  I'd consider switching services, but I was able to reason my way to a free Microcell device so it worked out ok.  If you tell them your issues about connectivity, dropped calls, etc. etc. and say you want to remain an AT&T customer, they will offer some type of discount since it's better for them in the long-term to offer some discount for the Microcell to continue keeping you as a customer.  Worth a shot...

AT&T 3G MicroCell

Not all of us are lucky enough to leech off our sister to get an extra line on a family plan.

Even at the lowest-tier package with no data, it costs your sister more than $20 a month to have your phone on her line. Probably more like $35 including the fees unless she is splitting that package among six phones or so. Even then you are getting a pretty nice discount.

The only reason why I can justify paying even $70 a month for my phone is because of the data plan. Otherwise I would have the absolute bare-bones phone.

I know I'm getting a great deal - she gets a pretty good employee discount that makes my extra line really cheap.  I used to pay $35 a month just for my landline.  

I feel really cheap not wanting to shell out the extra money and I think I was whining in the hopes that others would whine with me.

The feedback about Sprint has been really helpful though.  And thanks for the Microcell tip, Derek.

I've got TMobile in upper Lester/Lakeside (above Glenwood near 52nd) and it works fine most places in Duluth. I bought a TMobil pay-as-you-go phone  for $30 at a local big box store and I buy about $30 worth of minutes approximately every 6 weeks. The plan does not require buying monthly air-time, just minutes. No, I cannot imagine paying $80 a month for a cell phone. I don't even want to spend $50. I just want my phone to make needed calls. The TMobil phone has worked great for that. My husband has a pay-as-you-go AT&T phone that works fine around upper Lester.