I am using a Blackberry Pearl 8130 and My wive has a Motorola V262. When outside reception isn't too bad, but when indoors you can almost count on dropping the call every five minutes. When in town in the grocery store, forget it. You better have a good list from the wife. I can get e-mail updates on my blackberry, but cannot browse the web with it when at home. There are towers near here, but none seam to be leasing cell space. I can almost throw a rock and hit one that has been here for over a year, but it's not even listed on the FCC site. I don't know of anyone that offers decent coverage for the Eau Claire area.

Virgin Mobile (which uses the Sprint network) has very poor coverage all around Berrien springs and Eau Claire. Benton Harbor has good signal, until you go into any building, then it drops down from 4 bars to none. Naomi Rd has some signal, but not as you near M-140. Downtown Eau Claire has no service at all, and Berrien Springs has very limited service.