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I love Cellular One! Customer Service is always right there, helpful, courteous, etc. I always have a great signal and the only time I have a dropped call, it's been on the other end - the person I'm talking to. Cell One has been just great.

Whenever I drive down C st I totally lose signal during conversations even with a 15db gain roof mounted antenna. I can enter that area with 5 bars and still lose the call. But it only happens for about 100 yds on C st. It starts about the beginning of the wall. I call it the "cellular twilight zone"

I'm amazed to see a huge, multiple peice platform (apparently for a cell tower sitting at the edge of the Holiday at the intersection) sit uselessly for months while I drop calls almost in sight of said tower daily. I can't help but wonder who's tower it is, because if its cellular ones tower, I'll jump ship as soon as possible because the coverage here really sucks, and seeing the parts all just sitting there for months tells me they are not truly concerned about their customers enough to implement a simple solution in a timely manner. But then again, there might be some sort of red tape involved, I really don't know, but would certainly like to.

I live practically downtown, but I can't connect to the internet with my EDGE WAN card. The test program says that I'm at 16% signal strength. (Apparently too weak to allow the connection to occur.) Even downtown in the Conoco-Phillips building, I only have 35% signal strength. Cellular One talks a good game, but at least for me, they're not delivering!

No matter where I am in Anchorage I have difficulty yalk ingto people in town, no matter if they are on a land line or a cell. It is worse on the southside of town and forget getting any reception at my house. My son gets told he is roaming when he is in his room. We up graded from digital to what ever they call the new service and it is no better. We had great reception when AT and T was here and it went to pot when cellular one took over.

Every time I cross Tudor / Lake Otis, no matter what direction, my calls are dropped. Also, if you go under the Tudor overpass on the New Seward, reception is so poor that it sounds like the person is underwater. But, I have a great plan with Cellular One, so I'm hesitant to switch.

I can make and receive calls about 80% of the time, and service typically shows as 1-2 out of 5 bars of service. Conversations are workable but far from perfect. Cellular One must have just added a tower somewhere near my neighborhood--before February, I typically had 0-1 bars of reception and about 20% of my calls worked. Still, the area is lacking in good coverage. Not sure where the nearest towers are. I don't know about ACS coverage in this area, but my ACS EV-DO wireless broadband works intermittently at my house. EV-DO signal can range anywhere from 0-3 bars (out of 4). When the card loses the high-speed EV-DO carrier and falls back to the slower 1xRTT--which works [almost] anywhere there is voice coverage--the reception shoots up to 4 bars. That makes me think there is an ACS tower very near that simply hasn't been retrofitted with the EV-DO service--but ACS (CDMA) voice service may be good in my area. I do not have an ACS phone to verify this. (If I do verify this, I may end up switching!)

Cell One and GCI (which share the local towers) both suck. Got to be the worst service you can imagine. I swithced to GSM beacuse of the felxibility to change SIM cards when I travel abroad. I wish ACS was GSM also.

Cell One sucks. We live 2.3 and 2.8 mile between towers and still no service here. I could go on and on... .instead, I just got out of my contract.

Spotty coverage throughout my neighborhood near this intersection. Most of the Abbott-area mid and lower hillside are bad. There's a cell tower at Lake Otis and 72nd, but I don't know who owns it. Obviously not Cellular One.