Other than dial-up, Sprint (now Embarq) was, and still is, the only game in town for high speed internet. I encountered the same situation at my previous residence, so I've been with Sprint/Embarq for eight years now.
I started with their email long before gmail appeared, but I'm slowly moving to gmail.
Sprint provides terrible service in terms of reliability and is often extremely slow or down completely. Customer service is probably the worst of any large company I've ever been with.
Sprint is the Devil
Sprint sucks.
I hate Sprint.
In a future post, I'll explain how I really feel about Sprint.
Were it only that I had access to a REAL ISP.
dan