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Sprint seems to have great reception in Grand Haven. Inside my apartment I still get 4 bars. I also have had no problems down by the beach.

Att just recently upgraded towers to 3G in Grand Haven, Full bars and amazingly fast speeds with my iphone now.

Verizon Wireless is the only brand who gets service at the Grand Haven beach. Nextel / Alltel 100% drop signal anywhere near the beach. Verizon Wireless even has a cell phone tower in Lake Michigan on a floating booey (spelling). The U.S. Coast Guard uses Verizon Wireless phones here. Sprint / Nextel / Cingular / Alltel / T-Mobile are all horrible choices for Grand Haven. Verizon Wireless is as common as the sky is blue around here.

I had a Sprint phone, and recently switched to Alltel after moving to Lakeshore Dr. It works great out there where my Sprint wouldn't pick up a signal. I can even use it in my basement. :-) Plus my plan's a little cheaper, so it was a good switch all the way around.

I travel all over West Michigan and have only experienced terrible reception in my office at home. Switching from Nextel to AT&T has been the best change I ever made in cell networks. The signal strength I get going into the malls and deep into the stores, or office buildings is unbeatable. The only reason for good rating are the little areas on Lake Michigan Drive that are dead and the area right over my house. Funny, I walk to my driveway and get excellent recption?? Regardless, I wouldn't trade it for world, we'll maybe at least a new beemer!

Verizon's signal would flucuate between an average to great signal. Always enough to make and receive calls, as long as you are picking up the local Verizon tower (SID 21). What became a huge problem was my phone picking up a distant Verizon signal from Chicagoland (SID 20)! I first noticed this when the time was an hour behind. With CDMA technology, it is impossible to receive or place a call when you are using a tower at such a far distance away, even if you are receiving a good signal. Verizon should attempt to fix this problem. The only way of getting around this is knowing how to program your phone so it will only pick up a digital signal from SID 21.

Robinson township is pretty much a dead zone for every cell phone company. I have tried a lot of diffrent phones, companies, and have had a lot of people with diffrent phones and companies out here. Verizon does have the best reception IF its a motorla phone (its only a couple bars). I do get a lot of dropped calls but its better than no signal. I hold calls if I use my blue tooth. I do have service with this phone in a lot of places other people don't. Hopefully the new tower going in grand haven township will help. Wish Robinson township would allow towers to go in. According to 2 diffrent cell phone companies Robinson township won't allow towers to go up.

Reception is very mixed. I was able to get a great signal at the US-31 / M-104 intersection and a decent signal downtown. The signal at the Meijer on US-31 and at the state park was nonexistant, however. You could only call by roaming off Verizon.

It is pretty sad when we can't get reception at your own house. I have been told a couple of times by Verizon that they want to put up a tower that would help the residents of Robinson Township but we haven't seen it yet. If we are lucky we get one bar, so when our calls do go through we have to make the conversation short before the connection gets dropped... .and it will!

Cell signal sucks out here for all CDMA cell providers. Outside or upstairs I can usually keep a signal but I do get dropped often. Driving towards US 31, signal improves quickly.