When Crossing from Kentucky to Illinois. Once are on the illinois side of the bridge calls will drop out and reception is regained once you pass the Metropolis, IL exit 1 mile later.

I get pretty good reception with T - Mobile around town but traveling around the Heath community there is little to no reception - also no reception going HWY 45 to Mayfield after you pass the area known as "the bottoms" until you get to Mayfield. I tried a Sprint phone for a one week trial (they let you do this) to see how service is - seems to be a lot better than Cingular or TMobile in the Heath ? Paducah area - not sure about HWY 45 area. I took this phone all over KY and TN adn the reception was excellent - I am definanatly switching to Sprint! PLUS to all you parents out there - Sprint has a new phone with Parental Controls - check it out for your teen!! Sanyo SCP-2400 - looks good - not like the Firefly by Cingular!

I live in an apartment complex behind the Mall area in Paducah Ky. The reception is intermittent. Cingular needs to put a tower near Ky Oaks Mall that will provide service inside the mall and the low lying area around the mall. Also, when you are travelling I24 toward Illinois as soon as you round the curve before the bridge the service drops. I work at the casino in Metropolis Illinois and there is not signal at the casino or on the parking lot. Cingular needs to put a tower west of paducah that probably solve a lot of problems in metropolis and paducah. Before they changed some of the tower signal I was able to get service in Metropolis.

I get a dropped call 100% of the time while crossing the Ohio River bridge. Dead area from mid-span of the bridge to Exit 3 on the KY side. VZW needs to improve on their hand-off between IL and KY calls. Otherwise, this is the best coverage in the area.

Sprint PCS has promised to get a tower up in Mayfield,Ky but they still haven't come on Sprint PCS there's no service in Mayfield but I love Sprint better than Cingular Cingular fees are to high and there charges Sprint has good reception in Paducah,Ky

Just got the new phone with the GSM technology. The reception on my previous phone was really good--the reception now is really bad. I think its the tower problems rather than the phone. Know lots of people on Cingular and many are very unhappy with the reception right now.

I really loved AT&T service... .but now they are switching to Alltel. Not sure if I will like them. They have some very ugly phones. Anyways, reception is great for me with AT&T.

We have several phones for our workers that travel throughout Western Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. The reception is bad most of the time and alot of the time we get busy circuit messages. Calls cannot be heard when calling from land line to cell phone on several occasions. Cingular certainly needs more towers.