I'm in Portland. We're not exactly a thriving metropolis. However, I've been living without 3G simply due to the horrible reception, the astonishing number of dropped calls and - even worse - the calls that I just never get. Edge, it turns out, is way more reliable for those of us here.

I never had any of these problems on T-Mobile, nor do those I know who currently have jailbroken phones on that network.