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I get no reception inside or outside to talk but outside in one spot to the west / northwest I can pick up text messages.

Outside my home on the north side I get up to 3 bars on my Iphone 3G. Comparable to the RazorV3XX that just died. Inside my house I could get some service with the Motorola but very very limited with the Iphone. Limited texting only inside the house and not enough service to ring in or talk on either phone in the house.

Full signal at our home and around our property at Acorn (~ 6 miles north of Mena, AR) with AT&T, a great improvement over the 2 to 3 bars seen a few years ago. However, coverage in the immediate vicinity can be poor at times, and you can venture away from Hwy. 71 and watch signal strength decline. Thick trees, hilly terrain, and shadowed areas from Fourche Mountain cause large holes in coverage with both AT&T and Alltel in the area, the two main cellular providers for the Mena area. During four-wheeler trips around the area, I find myself making a note of certain spots that have coverage since the majority of places where I ride have no service. Taking into account that I usually hang around places in the woods and up in the mountains, I don't have much to complain about with the new AT&T.

On a clear day I get 2 bars at most... ONCE I did get 3... (that was a good day). Normally inside my residence I get no reception and no network available... so much for raising the bar huh cingular??

We have to move around alot, and certain places in the house will have 2 or 3 bars at best. Outside is about the same, one time 'no network', other times we get 3 bars. Not dependable.

Phone only works in town (Mena) and then poorly. You always sound garbled to other person. We frequently travel and have reasonable reception in most populated areas but the clarity of our voices to the people we call is undependable at best.