Although most of Ptown is well-served by VZW using the collocation site on the North Truro public service tower (several miles east of Ptown), service in the West End suffers greatly, especially on the hilltop near the Best Western Chateau Motor Inn property. When in Ptown, best to be at lower elevations with clear line-of-site to the North Truro tower. You will generally get 4-5 bars in most of Ptown. Otherwise, on the RF skip, you may pick up signals from Plymouth, Sudbury, Hull on the Boston system. Truro tower is part of the Cape Cod RSA.

I have even recieved reception at Herring Cove. A friend used the "walkie- talkie" feature on her phone to talk to her husband in Chicago. She had no problem talking to her parents in Canada also from Herring Cove. The only area where I have had a problem is on Rt. 6 coming into town or inside certain structures, but for the most part no problems. I was with U.S. Cellular and had horrible reception.

my town is 1mile wide x3 miles long.my service with sprint on this phone is the pits. two bars anywhere is very rare.

Let me preface this by saying I was no big fan of Cingular - horrible customer service and the last time I was here (using predecessor AT&T) I could barely get a signal. So I am AMAZED that I get nearly perfect signal all over Truro and Provincetown. They must have built towers. I also have a Verizon Motorola Q with me (testing it because was considering switching) and the Verizon converage is extremely spotty in comparison. Some places it's great, other places it blows. Constantly cutting out on Route 6 between Eastham and Truro. Yet Cingular was almost perfect. I still can't believe it. (Especially because my sister, who lives here, told me that Verizon supposedly has the strongest signal here -- but I think that is based on information that existed before Cingular put their new towers in.)

Really bad reception everywhere in town. Only O.K. reception sometimes is Commercial St.

1 bar in most areas, even though Sprint supposedly has an antenna in town.

Sprint PCS works great - very few drop areas.

T-Mobile actually works in Provincetown, but the service is very tempermental. You can walk down Commercial St (near Bayside Betty's) and have 5 bars on the oceanside of the street and no service on the inland (opposite) side of the street. T-Mobile will tell you that they don't guarantee service in this town and a check with town officials states that Cingular has an active agreement for service now with other companies negotiating to provide service at some undecided point in the future. Verizon tends to roam and I have not been able to access Sprint, Nextel, Cingular or AT&T in town as of this posting.