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My Verizon phone used the Cellular One network. I got great reception in Anchorage and along virtually the whole Seward Highway. Five bars in Moose Pass. Five bars in Seward itself.
I am a Verizon customer. My phone picked up the Cellular One network in Alaska. Reception was great in Seward -- 4 to 5 bars -- and there was decent reception along most of the Seward Highway. I got five bars in downtown Seward, at Moose Pass, at the junction to the Sterling Highway, around Girdwood, along Turnagain Arm, etc. There were a few dead zones, but very few considering the sparse population and high mountains. My BlackBerry (T-Mobile) worked great, also.
CellZero now has signal from Lowell Point to Mile 3 of the Seward Hwy. (from the SMIC / Nash Rd Tower) and again from the Mormon Church out to the Grouse Lake area (from the antenna they co-located on an ACS tower at Stony Creek), You can sorta-kinda-maybe keep a bar or two from the three bridges to the church, but there is a tower rumored for a site near the dump which will cover Exit Glacier. Now that theres signal, (Get the Signal (sm)--Yeah, Sure) I also experience regular dropped calls with a "Congestion" message on my phones. Customer "service" has been unimpressive. I'll stick with ACS for my primary service, thankfully I only use the crackberry for email, when it works that is. If your a Verizon / AllTel / Sprint subscriber you will be on AK Digitel and then on to ACS in underserved AKD areas. If your with AT&T / Cingular or TMob, you might be lucky and get AKD (they have a GSM overlay on their CDMA network) but 99% of the time you will be stuck with CellNone
I really wish that Cellular One would extend the range of their TDMA service out to where I live. I mean gosh ACS setup a CDMA tower not even a mile away from where I live. I talked with a CellOne rep and he said that they were going to expand their GSM service area for Seward but he also said that they were going to leave TDMA service the way that it currently is and I don't want to switch GSM yet. But my overall service has been fine I've only had 1 or 2 droped calls. So other than the fact that I can't make call using my cell phone at my house I think Cellular One is doing an okay job.
Watch out for CellOne as they are turning down their TDMA network. I am unable to make calls 75% of the time within Seward Proper with full signal, the other 20% of the time my call is dropped within 5-30 seconds of connecting to their network. Often if I switch to Analog I may have better chances of actually making a successful call. Most calls go straight to voice mail. No useful coverage past Mile 3 (Three Bridges). ACS works to mile 10 and picks back up at mile 12.
