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Alltel has the best service of anyone in the Maricopa area. No matter where I go, I have a full signal. Some of my friends with other service havce to go outside to get a signal and even then they only get 2-3 bars. I have had Cingular and T-Mobile previously and Alltel is by far the best service I have ever had!

This is a business provided phone, so no chance of changing phones or carrier. Have had the same terrible reception for 3+ years. Can make / receive calls intermittently throughout house. Usually drops calls. Almost always drop calls between Maricopa Mountian and the concrete plant when on 347. It's embarrasing to have my boss or customers call and I have to either ask them to call me back on the house phone, or I call them from the house phone using a calling card. We chose ATT for wife's phone for the free mobile-to-mobile minutes, but it's not worth it for the same dropped call / intermittent reception she gets. Her phone is an LG.

I have yet to find a single place in Maricopa where AT&T has any service at all. It is pretty sad, especially since the online coverage maps say it is "Best" What a lie.

My wife and I both have RAZR's and can only make and receive calls on the second floor of our house. I thought AT&T has "more bars in more places" We live right by the VW proving grounds and our reception is none existent.

I just switched from Verizon (yeah, that one was TERRIBLE) to Cingular. Problem is... .I can only get reception on the second floor! So, if my phone is downstairs, I will not get any calls and can't make any calls! The operator told me that the closest tower to us is 10 miles north! We DO need more cell towers! I put in a request with Cingular... .don't know if there's much more we can do. Keep calling your providers... I guess. And good luck!

My secondary phone is Nextel, for walkie talkie only. Data is quite pathetic, as is text messaging, but for voice and direct connect, its rather strong. Variable signal at times, it goes from 2-5 bars off and on, but never drops connection and has pretty decent calls.

We feel lucky when a call doesn't drop (if we can get a call through, that is) within 2 minutes into a conversation. For this reason, we use text messaging 99% of the time. Can only do that with those who can send / receive text messages, of course. I am very rural and have no land-based phone, so depend totally on cell phone connection. To put it bluntly, it stinks.

Never have more than 2 bars when inside house. Phone works fine making calls that charge your minutes. When using cell to cell or other free minutes, then no bars present and call is dropped. I watch the signal go from Sprint to Roam just walking from the kitchen into the den. This is insane, we (Maricopa) have the worst of everything here. Phone works just fine outside of the city. Sprint says they have a tower in Maricopa, yah right, which Maricopa? Maricopa CA? cause it aint doing squat in Maricopa AZ! Oh yeah, by the way, this website won't even take my zip code, it says it is not a valid zip. Really?

I have lived in Maricopa since 2004 and have never had any coverage problems. Never a call dropped or roaming. Have had a Sanyo M1, Treo 800w, and now the HTC EVO.

I only get reliable reception in the front room of the house. I can be anywhere else in the house and without moving go from full bars to digital roam to no service. If I walk from my front room to the kitchen or through to my home office, there is a 78.3% chance that the call will drop. That's just not cool.