I have had Alltel for 6 years and frequently travel to Wichita. Have always had good coverage in Wichita. The roaming partner in Wichita with Alltel is Verizon and I almost always have service wherever I go in Wichita and throughout Kansas. I have tried other carriers including Verizon, and Cingular. None give as good of coverage as Alltel does on the road or in the city. It is the only carrier that I can use to do business between Wichita and KC and have coverage most of the distance.

Had Cingular National Plan for two years. Sucked everywhere in Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Nevada, and now in Kansas. Dropped calls and poor reception everywhere. Amazing that I couldn't call someone else, but could call THEM while standing still. Never broke a connection talking to their number, but repeatedly was dropped on personal calls. I believe it has to do with their roaming contracts with cell owners. Regardless, I am off to Verizon.

Doesn't matter how many bars of service you have with this carrier you will have many dropped calls. It's a good thing they credit a minute back to your bill for dropped calls because you are going to need it. Most of the time when you make a call you switch to analog, eating up your battery. I purchased a national plan with no roaming in the U.S. and have had roaming charges on bill while I was in Wichita. When I called about this the service rep asked me if I read the fine print on the coverage map. I am done with Alltel.

I usually get only the bottom bar or two for signal all around town. Best signal around 13th and West St. area, north side of town. There have been some occasions when I will have absolutely zero service for the greater part of the day. I have been told it is my phone, but model but I don't know about that. Thinking about switching to Cingular or T-Mobile here in a couple weeks. I know Sprint here sucks.

Switched from Sprint, having been told GSM would penetrate my house better (near Friends U.) and give me better reception. Nope. One or two stripes in much of my house, and I get in-and-out reception with most calls (at least with Sprint, once I connected, I had a clear call). Seriously thinking about jumping to Verizon now.

This phone and service works when all others fail. I bought this phone new in 2000 after my third year with cellular one / verizon and it's still going stong. I'm still with Verizon because of good reception everywhere I go.

Reception is excellent, but Cricket refused to give my rebate and threatened to turn phone off because I inadvertently underpaid my bill one penney!

always works, I never have any problem with it. always have had verizon, and always will

Have no problems using my VZW phone around Wichita and on the AC plan it also works good in Ks, Ok and TX.

Too many dropped calls. Poor signal strength.

Just switched from Cingular to Verizon and cannot believe the difference. It is like day and night between the two companies as far as reception is concerned.

Just moved from out of state and have had Cingular for the past 6 years or so. I have never had the problem with poor reception and dropped calls as I have in Wichita the first 2 weeks I have had the service. I am getting out before my 30 day trial period is up. I can't see doing this for 2 years! The reception is terrible all over Wichita for the most part, but the dropped calls is the most annoying.

College Hill and the Crown Heights area is the worst area for reception.

This area just sucks for Sprint now. T-Mobile users get full signal in this area now.

If you make a call when you're showing less than 4 or 5 bars, you can plan on it being dropped. As an uneducated customer, I purchased a Cingular Nation plan (GSM phone) only to find out that the coverage map is so limited that it is worthless.

Cingular service on the north side of Wichita is a joke. The digital network doen't cover all of Wichita. Half of the north side of town is on the analog network. Almost impossible to make a phone call in my house becuase the signal is so poor. Had T-Moblie previous, with no issues like this. Have also tested signal from Wichita to Kansas City via the Turnpike, and reception is horrible. Can't stay on the digital side of Cingular, keeps kicking you to the analog network, and the signal strentgh there is practically un-useable.

Used T-Mobile for 3 years. Finally switched to Cingular and never had any dropped calls.