I used to have Cingular 8125 and my husband still has older Nokia 8100? 8125? and we still have really decent coverage in and out of the house. I got the iPhone because my brother loves it, but he's in the Washington DC metro and has 3G. We're still on Edge (literally and figuratively) and it is a little slower but still much faster than a manual typewriter and tin can and string setup. We have a place right in the southwest part of Kechi as we're leaving city limits on Woodlawn going over K-96 where we're without a tower and so service will drop right there but we can redial or just wait until we get across the freeway and hit the tower in Bel Aire and it's fine. Another dead spot seems to be on 135 where it intersects with 235 and K-96