Has never got much service, runs the battery down daily. Customer service doesn't care.

I have ATT service or at least I pay for it. It was very poor servicefor many years but 85% of the time I could text the last 2 yrs. Now, I can not even text from this area. If I go 1 mile West I can get a bar or two... 3 miles south I have full bars. I don't know what changed, but now I have NO service at all. When I try to text or call it says "service unavailable". I am looking for another server. I called them but they just gave me a resolution date which they keep pushing back with no resolution. But you can be sure I will get a bill! Have had ATT for about 4 yrs now... the service is getting worse and not better??

Topeka Kansas which is in Shawnee County has absolutely the worse AT&T cell phone reception. Almost everyone I know who had Cingular (AT&T) has changed to verizon, and with good reason. You can actually use your cell phone. For the life of me, I don't understand why AT&T does not do something about this. If they keep going in Topeka Kansas, they will be out of business.

Cingular is only LOWERING THE BAR in Topeka and most of Kansas. I started a contract with Cingular at Personal Communications on 21st St. I could not use my phone 2 blocks from that store. Thats right, I had one or no bars 2 blocks from the store. Luckily, they are forced to give me a trial period and I went to Verizon, which is actually raising the bar. Cingular is a horrible carrier.

I have had Cingular for a year and have had horrible reception pretty much everywhere in Topeka (and Kansas). I had Verizon before and never had a dropped call, and got a full signal from my basement at home to on top of a mountain in Colorado. Will switch back as soon as my contract is up with Cingular.

Just got Cingular in Topeka and reception is very low in major areas. Will leave them during my trial period.

Others who have Cingular on here are correct. I have horrible luck with Cingular in Topeka. Many areas you have to go outside a house and then reception is still really poor. I would not recommend Cingular if your going to live in Topeka. Poor poor reception for a large city.

Caution Topekans! Don't get Cingular if you depend on a phone in Topeka! Some spots are fine, but others are awful and practically non-existant right in town.

Cingular has awful reception in this large part of Topeka.

One bar, and thats if your lucky! Horrible reception from a horrible carrier.

No problems to speak of, which is odd for Nextel, but it seems to be fine in Topeka.

Cannot hold a call when I enter a building in downtown Topeka. Service drops and phone begins to hunt for roam. Once I am outside, service shows full signal strength.

Almost no problems anywhere in the Topeka area, Good north up to Holton, KC, Lawrence, Wichita all have excellent reception

If you stray from major highways / roads don't count on your Sprint phone. Even with their 'free roaming' I can put my phone into roam and it still will drop calls, all the while I embaressingly borrow a customer's phone on a different network.

Good reception in town with rare dropped calls. I even get good reception in the basement of Petro! Some problems in basement of Henderson. There is a dead spot on north 62nd just east of 75 Hwy. where my calls often are dropped.

I've had the same Sprint account / plan / phone for 4+ years. Used it many urban places without problem and no roaming - not as lucky in very remote areas (Independance,KS or North of Holton). In my Basement apt at 31st / Oakley reception is spotty - same with friends using T-Mobile, Verizon, or Cingular in my place. Seems to be a matter of usage demands and typical interior interferance. I imagine a narrow zone from my bedroom window, down the hall, into the living room where I get a signal - If I stray from that I occasionally have a problem. (real convenient, eh?) I was told the nearest tower is atop the V / A hospital about a mile from me.

Sprint is the worst carrier I have ever had. Drive anywhere outside the city limits and your call is dropped. Don't even think of traveling. My friends have CellularOne and Alltel and have no problem.

Data speeds are decent and I've never had a dropped call.

T-Mobile really, really, reallyreallyreally stinks. Coverage is very spotty all over KS. I have family that are on Alltel and Verizon that have full signals where I can barely manage 1 bar. Customer service is the worst in the business too. I think their business model was aimed at assisting 12 year olds. 3G??? I had them years ago, too bad to see they haven't improved. Will be breaking my contract in the next month to get out (it's that bad).

T-Mobile has made some major improvements in their network. Most of Topeka is covered pretty well now. I have yet to have a no service message or a dropped call in Shawnee county. They even have Sprint beat in certain parts of the state (like Southeast KS).