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I bought T-Mobile when I was in Miami, FL. Then I moved to Bossier City with the same plan and used it for about one and a half year. YES, in some places there is no coverage, but I spent most of my time in town so no prob. If you live out of town, say Benton, don't get this line. Best line, if in metro area; best rates, decent phones; and my first phone line. i am getting Verizon or AT&T cuz I am planning to stay in this city for four more years. probably verizon.

I live right across from the base, and I don't get good service with Sprint at all. I can live without 3G, 1X data is good enough for most of my data needs. Outdoors at my residence I go from 1-3 bars, and indoors my phone has to be by the window to hold a signal. It's unfortunate, as Sprint has pretty good coverage in general throughout Shreveport / Bossier. I guess i'm in one of the few dead zones.

T-Mobile usually has excellent coverage, however, since moving from MA to LA - the coverage is awful, dropped calls, degraded calls, etc. Its a shame - T-Mobile is one of the best companies around for customer service, cost, great plans, etc. I am going to hate having to change to get better coverage...

Cingular / AT&T considers this area to be below the "Secondary" market area. That means that this area will not improvements for at least 2 years after the Major cities get them. Although I have the newest 3-G phone, I won't see 3-G for a long time. As for the voice signal, with Cingular the signal can be good and the voice quaility still sucks. It doesn't drop the calls, they just degrade until there is silence. This has been a problem for years here, and I don't see it improving anytime soon. And if you want Data, well forget it. With my phone, I have to pay twice as much (39.99 because it's a PDA) but it sill won't connect most of the time.

Great signal! Compared to Sprint 3 years ago, Cingular has topped the signal. I agree that coverage is bad in some spots (Airline / Texas intersection and I-49 North / South), but overall pretty good. Perfect signal inside my home as well.

Don't bother trying to have a conversation around either of these locations. Service sucks. For the network with the fewest dropped calls, you need to get a clue. Did I mention that there are at least two Cingular stores in this area. Seems to me they would know there is a problem. All they tell me is that I shouldn' t be having any problems and it must be my phone. After 3rd V551 I switched back to my unlocked AT&T 3595. Imagine that still no service.

I wish Cingular would just come out and tell people we know there are call volume issues in this area, we apologize, we are working to fix these issues by the the middle or end of summer 2006, Cingular reception is fine, in terms of bars, its the call volume and the handing off of towers thats they problem, towers can't handle the volume of calls and therefore reject handoffs. Problem is with customers, is that their expectations are based on service that was provided before trying to merge all the Att&T customers and networks with Cingular networks, that puts a huge strain on a network especially when you make a call and the it goes to jackson miss, due to the switch shreveport is on. Thank god they are building a switch which should help with call volume. As to those of you who have problems, yes Cingular knows and yes, it doesn't matter what phone you get you will have some service issues. So please stop coming in the store and yelling at reps about issuses they can't control and try to be nice about the problem and atleast let a rep attempt to help you. I see so many customers get upset with bad attitudes that it makes the rep not want to help them. if you come in with a bad attitude I will say that you probably will leave even more pissed, because most reps will not assist you in the manner that you would like. And please assume that customer service will tell you anything to get you off the phone and send you to a store, were you will get a shock when the reps tell you something different, don't act surprised. Unfourtunately customer service can and will mislead or tell you different things due to inconsistent training, Customer complain about what reps on stores due, but its the reps for the most part who are constantly uptodate with information and not customer service, thats a sad but true fact. in closing, be fair, act like an adult, keep and open mind and you might find that people are willing to go out of there way to help you

My reception has been perfectly average, just average, nothing special or bad just average. Ho hum, what an average calling plan too! Must have been designed for me speciffically, because I'm just so average. Signed, Average Joe (the white guy with the average name). Except for the antelope vomit on my dash, its all very average.

Cingular has the worst signal I have ever had. I have had the same number for 12 years. Started with cellular one and through the mergers have ended up with cingular. Thats why I went and bought an Alltel phone it has great reception and is clear as a landline 99% of the time. I am done with Cingular as soon as my contract is up.

I recently switched from Alltel to Cingular. With Alltel I had very few reception problems and dropped calls. With Cingular, I have static and dropped calls very frequently. I am switching back to Alltel. I now have a LG1400. With Alltel I used a LG5450.