The infuriating tendency of Sprint cell phone service to indicate a full-strength signal (4 bars), drop the call, and then pop back up to 4 bars in the span of an instant, often while one remains completely still.
"Sorry I keep having to call you back every 30 seconds, Sprint keeps giving me the four fade four."
by Adama May 25, 2004
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