[Conor Ryan]

I have Sprint, which just bought out Nextel. The service is ok, I get a lot of coverage usually, but it's never fantastic.

As for phone choice, I have a Samsung A660 I think, it was the Free phone that came with my plan. The thing gets fanstatic reception, and just on Thursday night I dropped it 8 stories in the Omni, only to pick it up and put the battery back in and have it work just like it did before hand. I don't know too many Razr's that would survive that fall too well.

Personally, I'd go with Cingular and then I'd get a Phone that uses the GSM network, it's a much stronger and clearer network than TDMA which Sprint/Nextel/Verizon run on. According to Consumer reports though, Verizon is your top choice, and it's pretty popular so you may not need that many minutes since in network calls are free. You may want to ask some college students are your school of choice and see what's popular with them.