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Location / Comment
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Alltel
 1 Out of 5
Phone Model: Nokia 6255i
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University / Markham, Little Rock, AR 72205 |
Tue May 16, 2006 |
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.
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Alltel
 5 Out of 5
Phone Model: audiovox 8910 |
Littlerock and Surounding Area, Little Rock, AR 72210 |
Sun Apr 16, 2006 |
So far Alltel seems to be the best in littlerock. I get full bars all around this area and no droped calls.
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Sprint
 5 Out of 5
Phone Model: Samsung MM-A900 (SPH-A900)
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Little Rock Metro, Little Rock, AR 72210 |
Sat Mar 04, 2006 |
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.
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AT&T
 2 Out of 5
Phone Model: HP iPAQ hw-6515a |
I-630 East / University Ave. To MLK, Little Rock, AR 72202 |
Thu Mar 02, 2006 |
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.
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Sprint
 5 Out of 5
Phone Model: Samsung A840
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Hot Springs Village, Little Rock, AR 72202 |
Sat Feb 25, 2006 |
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.
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AT&T
 5 Out of 5
Phone Model: HP iPAQ hw-6515 |
President Clinton Ave., Little Rock, AR 72206 |
Thu Feb 23, 2006 |
Experienced full coverage GSM / EDGE in a high-rise executive office building.
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Sprint
 5 Out of 5
Phone Model: Samsung A840
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I-530 and Dixon Rd., Little Rock, AR 72206 |
Wed Feb 15, 2006 |
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).
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AT&T
 2 Out of 5
Phone Model: H |
I-430 River Bridge (NORTH), Little Rock, AR 72204 |
Wed Feb 15, 2006 |
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.
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AT&T
 2 Out of 5
Phone Model: HP iPAQ hw-6515 |
I-430 and I-30 Junction, Little Rock, AR 72204 |
Wed Feb 15, 2006 |
I experience some degredation of service here on a daily basis. Call drops about 1 out of every 5 times.
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AT&T
 5 Out of 5
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I-530 and Dixon Rd., Little Rock, AR 72206 |
Wed Feb 15, 2006 |
Excellent GSM coverage due to SBA tower beside Interstate. Sprint has a tower here also.
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Alltel
 5 Out of 5
Phone Model: 710 |
2300 Cantrell RD, Little Rock, AR 72202 |
Wed Jan 18, 2006 |
The Best Service in Town.
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AT&T
 4 Out of 5
Phone Model: Blackberry 7290
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South of Cantrell / West of Kauvanaugh, Little Rock, AR 72207 |
Thu Dec 29, 2005 |
Cingular has better reception in my area than the other carriers I have tried which includes Altel, Sprint and AT&T.
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AT&T
 1 Out of 5
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Arch St. / Pratt Rd., Little Rock, AR 72206 |
Wed Dec 28, 2005 |
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!
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AT&T
 1 Out of 5
Phone Model: Motorola RAZR V3
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36th and Shackleford / 36th and John Barrow, Little Rock, AR 72204 |
Mon Nov 07, 2005 |
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
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Sprint
 1 Out of 5
Phone Model: Palm Treo 600 (CDMA)
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Cantrell Rd. / University Ave., Little Rock, AR 72227 |
Wed Aug 10, 2005 |
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.
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Sprint
 0 Out of 5
Phone Model: Palm Treo 650 (CDMA)
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Cantrell / Kavanaugh, Little Rock, AR 72207 |
Sun Jan 09, 2005 |
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.
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Sprint
 5 Out of 5
Phone Model: Audiovox CDM-8610 |
West Little Rock, Little Rock, AR 72212 |
Sat Oct 30, 2004 |
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!
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AT&T Wireless (GSM)
 5 Out of 5
Phone Model: NEC 525
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I-630 / Broadway, Little Rock, AR 72205 |
Mon Aug 23, 2004 |
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.
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