the signal out here sux! I don't have any bars where I live so talking on the phone at home consist of going to the road finding a certain spot, talking on speaker phone and just hope and pray that the call isn't droped

Good in town, but leave the area and you don't have any reception until the next town. For instance, going toward crossett, you have no reception from a mile south of hamburg until you get across unity road heading into crossett. When you go toward louisiana you dont get signal back until you are nearly to log cabin. Going north you loose reception between hamburg and fountain hill just long enough to drop calls... and between fountain hill and monticello... .you get a full dead signal for a bit. It used to be good when I had gate technology phone (analog / gsm) but now that its 100% gsm phone, no signal is available (they forced me to get a pure gsm to get a decent calling plan). I am thinking about going to Alltel service since its using cdma signals and can still use analog fallback... I think that is key in this area.