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Have had Alltel for two years, and became a Verizon customer with the purchase of Alltel last year. We are not far from town, and are not in an incredibly rural area - yet our reception is absolutely terrible. The Alltel authorized agent in town sold us on tethered internet, and we're lucky if it even goes above dial up speed. We can connect and receive phone calls and text messages, but calls will randomly drop and sometimes we will lose service all together for a few seconds. I was not expecting to be unable to get DSL (next door neighbor has it), Charter internet (they stopped down the road) or decent cell phone service. Feels like we are trapped in the 90s still.

Can usually send and recieve texts but it may take a little longer. Forget phone calls.

I have a GSM TracFone, so near as I can tell, it uses the AT&T network. Rarely do I get reception inside the house. And minimal signal if I go out to the end of my dock on Secord Lake! Lots of complaints about the signals on all the carriers up this way. I did some researching on the Internet and found the locations of the cell towers. Verizon looks like they have more towers near me, but I'm still about 13 miles between them. One near Alger and another on M-18 north of Gladwin.

One would think service would improve over the last 13 yrs... .not so much. Still stinks just as it did then. In Gladwin City is OK and West Branch is OK, but anything in between... .don't bet your life on it. Better to send smoke signals.

I have to walk outside into the street to get poor reception. Many important calls go directly to voice mail without the phone ringinging inside the house.

Secord Lake I have to get on my house to get service but got 5 miles west perfect signal go 8 miles east perfect signal go 8 miles north perfect signal we need a tower in Secord Township you might be able to put it at the Firehall and help them out also at the same time which is at Secord Dam and Lakeshore

Alltell Sucks,, Need to wrap tin foil around head and stick coat hanger in rear end to get signal in house, Have an upper deck on barn 20 feet in the air. Can use phone out there if I stand on hand rail.With said tin foil and coat hanger.. Can drive 5 miles south to M-61 and use phone.. In the town of Gladwin the reception is Iffey.. Oh and one more thing with these people stay on top of your bill.as of right now they owe me $156.00 for calls that were charged. Like moble to moble and moble to the home phone... Da these calls are suposto be FREE...

I am looking to buy a cottage in this area. I have Verizon and was using my phone's GPS to navigate there. It failled to connect for navigation and there was no signal to make a call unless I stood at the edge of the lake. Even then it was not a signal that would support a call of more than a minute. I even reprogrammed my roaming capabilities and saw no improvement even doing that. Since then, checking coverage maps for all the major carriers showed that none of these companies has service in this area. Some company is missing a market share in that area.

I have a Nextel and there is nooo reception where I live just until I get into town... I was just wondering what companies would be the best to get??

we need Alltel to step up to the plate. If you sell phones in the area make sure they have reception when you lock your customer in for 2 years.