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I have cellular one now owned by AT&T and t. My phone is really old and I used to get dropped calls constantly or no service at all. It has improved since the latter part of 2007. It will allow me to use it somewhat I still have to find a spot in the house or outside on the deck for it to work and it will drop eventually or be all garbled. I usually switch over to the land line. SO I am not sure if I should upgrade to AT&T and t or not maybe a newer cell would work better? I am not sure any cell would work in this area.

reception so variable I move to a different location in building--even close to a window does not always help.

When it was ATT here I was thrilled, never any problems. Then the whole Dobson / Cell One episode! Yeah! (not). I get missed calls, I have poor signal at my house (also referred to as the cell phone black whole) off Abbott Loop. And (with reference to a previous post) my phone says made in China so it's an actual Razr not a knock off. My husband bought a new unlocked Sliver on the internet and simply swapped his sim card. He gets better signal and fewer dropped calls than my phone and we are both on the cell one network. So with reference to another previous post as long as the phone is made for the same network (gsm for gsm) we haven't had a problem with buying an unlocked phone. Cell one kept calling telling us we needed to bring his phone in for programing (not going to happen). Why does it need to be programed when it's working fine??? So they can lock it of course! Our contract ran out and we are on month to month waiting for a new game to come to town. Cell one kept calling saying we needed to come sign a new contract, and I finally had to tell them that if they called again we would just shut them off completely! We have been looking at options including those that would mean a long distance number, anyone have any suggestions?

I have an old Oregon number from the college days that I can't seem to let go. I've been up in Alaska for almost two years since graduation and Cingular (which worked perfect for me) finally dropped me from there network. To keep my number I switched to T-Mobile while visiting Oregon about two months ago. So far its been an absolute nightmare. My outgoing calls work a-ok, but my incoming calls will not function correctly. Random numbers show up on my caller ID and the delay is so bad that it is impossible to talk. So I communicate through text messages, which suprisingly text messaging works just fine.

I just joined but I regret it. I was using Alaska Digitel before and never had a single dropped call within the city of Anchorage. Now I'll be in the middle of a conversation and the only indication the call has been dropped is the lack of response after I've carried on chatting for a minute or two AFTER they can no longer hear me. I've never had to repeat myself so much in my life. It's so bad that I've started to say everything twice at the office, too -- even when I'm not on the phone -- for worry that they didn't hear me the first time. Bleh.

Just a warning to anyone considering buying a phone from Cellular one. They sell illegal international phones. We bought a Razr and had constant problems with the battery dying, so we took it in and they eventually had us send it in for repair. It came back with the problem - nothing was done. Cell1 said the motorolas do not have a warranty so they couldn't do anything about the problem. After contacting Motorola we found out their phones always have a warranty. But cell one was correct - the motorolas "they" sell don't have a warranty. Thats because they are selling knock off phones from singapore. Not all of their phones are knock offs, but some are and they know it. Check your phones people. They should say made in China. If they don't you should make them replace it.

My calls drop all the time. Now my phone says "Off Network." I talked to Cingular and they said they are going to cancel my service because it isn't allowed now. They were great, but now that I live here, I will have to switch.

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.

I recently moved up here and I have Verizon. Phone services doesn't work as well and none of my features work. I had to cancel everything but the plan itself. I'm thinking it's just Alaska in general. My friend has Cingular and she has some problems as well. Sometimes when I can't get through it says something about ACS. I don't know what code that is but I don't think I can win up here. I hear GSM and CDMA both are okay up here.

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!)