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I usually get fairly good reception south of Churdan, but no reception in or right around Churdan. It can be spotty outside of town as well.

Updating my rant from my last year's post. Cingular service has gotten much better over the year I've had my phone. I work in Carroll now but the coverage map categorizes Carroll under "partner" service, meaning Cingular has contracts with other cellphone companies, iWireless T-Mobile being the case here, to use service. I was told my Cingular that if I don't use more than 60% of THEIR antennas I will lose my service. Now I like Cingular a lot. When I lived in Fort Dodge it worked perfectly. Thankfully I visit Ames, Fort Dodge, and Des Moines enough to keep it above 60%. Plus they were on me about living in a town without Cingular Service (I get service two, yes TWO, miles south outside Churdan, but it's under iWireless' towers). I like having MySpace Mobile and Rollover Minutes... ..If Cingular reads this, stick some towers up along HWY 4 in Greene County, allright?

Cingular and their partnership networks have expanded their coverage on highway 30 in central and western Iowa. Drivng from Ames through Carroll you should have astout coverage of GSM, I made a trip and lost service on the west side of Carroll till I got into Denison, after that coverage from Denison on out was pretty good.

FINALLY! Cingular Service in Carroll! I think it's because I now have a 2 year contract. And I went to Iowa City last week and got perfect service from Fort Dodge to Iowa City (US 20 and I-380), even from I-35 to Parkersburg / Grundy Center IA14 Exit! Now if they get service in Jefferson and Churdan, it will be PERFECT!

My phone works perfectly in Ames, Des Moines, Waterloo, and Fort Dodge (Where I work), but at home I get no signal what so ever. The only place in Greene County (I live in this county) I can get a signal is about two miles north of the Greene / Guthrie county line on HWY 4. When I go home to Churdan it cuts out midway between HWY's 175 and 20 on County Rd.P29. In Carroll it THINKS about working. It doesn't say "No Network" but it thinks about it (as if it is going into a towered area). But also my phone doesn't work in Storm Lake at all don't even ask.

Very intermittent reception and don't even think of moving around house or away from window (where I might add reception is best at 2 bars) sometimes. Looking for a new provider now that contract is up. Have 3 lines, 3 phones and none work better then the next. Reception between Churdan and Farnhamville is a guarnteed dropped call. Closer to Gowrie reception is much better with full bars.