Too many drop calls. Alltel's answer to this problem is that they will credit the customer 1 minute back to their account. Wow what a bargain! My advice go with someone else.

So far Alltel seems to be the best in littlerock. I get full bars all around this area and no droped calls.

I have used Cingular, Alltel, and Sprint. Cingular is by far the worst. Even if you have full signal, the call quality is still bad. They claim their GSM is so great... well it's the worst technology... Most people don't know, but GSM is TDMA, just with higher data speeds. Always go with a CDMA carrier, CDMA offers the best call quality, and the signal travels further. Alltel reception is great in Arkansas, but their phone selection isn't. Sprint seems to offer the best phones, and has great reception all over the Little Rock metro area. Sprint also offers free roaming, so anytime you are in the woods with no Sprint coverage, you can roam off of the Alltel towers :-) With the new EVDO high speed broadband internet Sprint has, that just puts the icing on the cake. You can watch tv, listen to sirius satellite radio, and surf the web on your phone at broadband speeds. I highly recommend Sprint to anyone that is searching for an all around great carrier.

Experience low QoS in this area with Cingular. At about Fair Park Blvd. I dropped a call yesterday, though usually it just breaks up and I have to tell the person on the other end to 'hang on' a bit. Without a PDA phone I doubt you'd have a dropped call; just low signal strength and QoS.

Excellent Sprint PCS coverage in parts of the village; other parts not so great. Better than Cingular by far. Get the roaming plan if you use Sprint in a rural state like Arkansas. It only costs $5 extra and allows for unlimited roaming.

Experienced full coverage GSM / EDGE in a high-rise executive office building.

Excellent coverage here. Best coverage in Little Rock. Beats Cinguar hands-down. Call quality is better on Sprint's 1900 MHz network, and EV-DO supports up to 1 megabit of data bandwidth compared to 144k with EDGE (the GSM standard for data).

When heading North on I-430 over the river bridge, Cingular's network sometimes drops my call. There is always degredation of service. This problem does not present itself in a noticeable fashion when heading South on the same bridge.

I experience some degredation of service here on a daily basis. Call drops about 1 out of every 5 times.

Excellent GSM coverage due to SBA tower beside Interstate. Sprint has a tower here also.

The Best Service in Town.

Cingular has better reception in my area than the other carriers I have tried which includes Altel, Sprint and AT&T.

Had wonderful reception at this location with Suncom and AT&T. It became Cingular and now I am "roaming" in my own home! Pretty sad when I know there are 2 towers within 2miles of my home!

Lots of Dropped calls Had Nokia 6800 series was great for the last 5 yrs wonderful signal then AT&T merged with Cingular and signal started getting weaker they kept telling me my phone was bad 3 phones later I bought the big bad RAZOR right the top of the line and while I admit I liked the design my service was the same dropped calls all the time I am locked into a contract and if I can say 1 thing to help anybody out there my service was the best with Alltel and I will be back with them someday after all what good is roll over if you can't hear the person you want to talk to? David Jones, Little Rock Ar 72204

My house is about five blocks NW of this busy intersection in a highly populated area, and reception indoors or outdoors is very poor on Spring, with many dropped calls.

The entire eastern quadrant of the Heights bounded by Beechwood / CCLR / Van Buren has zero reception with Sprint. It has gotten much worse since 2004. Beware if you live here and have any plans to use it from home. Calls will drop off at middle of Cantrell Hill until you get past Kavanaugh, and virtually zero reception northwest of that line.

Sprint PCS has perfect reception around the West Little Rock area. I have been using Sprint PCS for about 5 years without a problem. I have had good luck with their phones as well. My parents and most of my friends use Sprint PCS and have had no problems at all either. Highly recommended!

Near-perfect reception all over the Little Rock metro area, but *incredibly* bad dropped calls to the point that my service is unusable. AT&T made some change about a month ago (mid-to-late July, 2004) that have turned both of my NEC 525 phones into basically paper-weights due to the unbelievable frequency of dropped calls (9 out of 10 calls last between 15 seconds to 2 minutes before being dropped) even though they have near-perfect reception 99.9% of the time. I have friends on AT&T who have other model phones and have no problems, so it may be some small incompatability that they introduced recently that only affects the NEC phones. Beats me, and AT&T has been no help at all. Rating: Reception - 10/10, Reliability - 1/10.