Full Reception In or Out Of the House and To and In Vero Beach with No Loss Of Tower

I can barely make any phone call in the house.Its not always one bar, it varies between one and three bars and floats up and down. lots of dropped calls... Started when AT&T went upgradelng cingular towers.

When I call Cingular they tell me that I live in a medium coverage area. Well thats hard to believe since I can only get 1 or 2 bars in my house or walking the neighborhood. Once you get out to the highway the service is great. I have not been to, to many places where the phone will not work great. Except at home. I called and Cingular said there is only 2 towers for this county. One of which always goes down at the same time every month.

I switched to Cingular because after having Nextel for 7 years Nextel is not what it use to be. The last year service has been very poor.

If you travel down Hwy. 98 going from Sebring to Okeechobee or vice versa dont get Cingular, it will not work. Although the coverage map will show that area covered dont be fooled. My friend said her Sprint phone works perfectly, maybe I'll give it a try.

You can find a few spots to talk if you walk around waving the phone in the air like an idiot... .

Poor reception, have to stand outside in parking lot to talk direct connect Nextel also the cell phone recption through Sprint get alot of dropped calls.

Out near the Okeechobee / St Lucie County Line for about 4 miles on Hwy. 70 there is no Nextel coverage.

Nextel has great signal here, but not so great customer service and billing practices. I will stay with cingular. They may not have the best signal here but the customer service is A+, and to me thats what matters.

We used to have occasional reception, but since the storms, we now have none at all. My bill is just a waste of money every month.

We had very good service until about a week ago. Would like to know what happened.

Have to stand outside the house to even get poor reception.

This comment is about the EMBARQ wireless service. Okeechobee county is served by EMBARQ for its local service. I was on there web site paying my bill and saw they offer wireless. So I figure why not give them a try. I did and the reception in this area was better then I expected. I come to find out that there service is provided by SPRINT PCS. I think that once all the NEXTEL towers are shut down and converted to SPRINT then Sprint and EMBARQ will be the service to have is this community. The phone I am using is a UT Starcom 7075. Its a farily new brand but seems to have better reception in rural areas, then the higher priced well known brand names.

Never had a dropped call. Great service in town and at home. Nextel and AT&T are sketchy at best in Okeechobee, but Verizon has never let me down.

dont get verizion it sucks

One bar of service with this one. I think I will stay with Cingular for the time being.

I couldn't wait to dump my Nextel service; they refused to give me any credit for non-existent service during the critical hurricane aftermath. (The rep "couldn't believe" we'd been so severely damaged--we were declared a DISASTER AREA... DUHH!). Anyway, despite Nextel's customer service incompetance, I went with Verizon and barely get 1 bar at any given time! And thats with clear, sunny skies! I'm in healthcare and physicians and patients get pretty upset with dropped calls and VERY poor reception. Shouldn't have switched.