<p>what’s the best cell phone service (best reception, least dropped calls, etc.) and the best plan at umd?</p>
<p>I’ll be honest and tell you that I can’t answer that question in it’s entirety, but I can tell you that while I was there verizon service was fine.</p>
<p>DS has ATT and he gets signals where his verizon friends don’t, That being said his verizon friends get signals where he doesn’t. So it is a crap shoot!</p>
<p>We have Sprint and DS had no trouble communicating from the dorm he was staying at either time.</p>
<p>I would imagine that most cell services would be pretty good because it’s so near DC.</p>
<p>People tend to have all kinds of plans…</p>
<p>I have Verizon and it works - well, it goes in and out, but you can text - in the metro tunnels (and in the train in the tunnels). Which is pretty cool; my AT&T friends are always jealous haha. But again they get service some places I don’t…</p>
<p>Do the dorms tend to all have service reguardless of company? (I’ll be living in Ellicott)</p>
<p>Yeah, basically you get service in the dorms and the dining hall regardless of what carrier you have. I have Verizon and it works great but I haven’t really heard any complaints from others, although I do know someone that had Sprint with weird reception at times, but nothing bad. Either way, as soon as you walk into a lot of buildings and lecture halls, EVERYONE losses service anyway!</p>
<p>There are some UMD discounts available here:</p>
<p>[Cell</a> Phones - University of Maryland - Office of Information Technology (OIT)](<a href=“http://www.oit.umd.edu/cellphones/]Cell”>http://www.oit.umd.edu/cellphones/)</p>