The Alltel service has been very pleasing in the Mpls / St Paul metro areas. I have been able to place calls and have never had a situation where it hasn't worked well.

Good reception in all of the Twin Cities!

I have been very pleased with the reception Alltel has provided. With various roaming agreements / partners, I have had a solid signal in the Twin Cities area. The area it has shown a dropped call is in the Belle Plain to Shakopee area. Other than that, it's great! This phone model seems very good for reception.

Alltel service is not what it should be for a large city like Minneapolis.

Spotty at best. Sometimes calls are ok. At other times, and for long periods of time, I get no reception and can't make or receive calls.

A phone is supposed is to make and receive calls primarily. Too bad my doesn't, even at home inside or out. Dropped calls. Long lags in connecting, if it doesn't drop them. Even calling ATT and registering a complaint and following up with them to no avail. Get it right ATT and quit lying about covering 97% of America. You owe me a free 3G Microcell. I just want the service that I pay for and was promised.

Great coverage, no issues. Even get good coverage at the cabin in the Brainard area on the lakes. Would recommend ATT to anybody. The phones they offer (besides the iphone) are pretty basic though.

Constantly getting dropped calls although ATT says a good coverage area. I'll have 5 bars, make a call, and have the bars go to one or none and then the dreaded "Call Failed" message. Customer service has never been helpful - they first maintained it was a hardware problem. Swapped out devices, SIM cards, and the first call made to them to test the replacement phone dropped! ATT, on follow up calls, fixes the problem for a few days and then it reverts!

Never had any troubles. I had horrible reception with Verizon and switched and haven't had a dropped call since. Great reps tio deal with at the stores as well.

amazing coverage around here.. way better than when I had verizon, plus att's phones are a lot better!

The only way to avoid constant dropped calls is to leave my house and go outside, which is lovely considering Minneapolis's balmy winters.

At best, one bar, if standing in front of the window of the living room on one leg. Had to switch to T-Mobile to get reception in my house.

Bad reception inside house. Dropped calls inside house. Don't receive calls until 2 hours later. Do not receive voicemail made 2 hours before. Love the iPhone. just crappy ATT reception.

50th and Lyndale to 50th and Penn is terrible, as is 50th and Xerxes to Hwy. 62, and most of the Linden Hills Neihgborhood. AT&T is the WORST carrier in Minneapolis

Ever since the switch from Cingular, my reception is spotty at best. I can get most calls, make most calls, but at least 50% of my calls drop during the conversation. It's not just in my house either, it's everywhere. None of my friends have AT and T and they laugh at how poor my service. Now, not only is my service terrible, but I'm losing friends.

Tried new Iphone (switched from Verizon to ATT) the day iphone came out... had two dropped calls that day. never had dropped calls with Verizon in 8 years. had to switch back to verizon. I REALLY want the Iphone, but ATT has such spotty cell service TOO BAD ATT - you really need to follow through with your "more bars" ads and put up more towers!

I have been so disappointed in my cell coverage since I moved to this location. I rated it as a 1, but half the time it's at 0. I used to live in downtown Mpls, and I never even considered having a lack of reception here. Since day one it has been absolutely horrible. Over the summer, I had calls that would literally drop every few seconds. I ended up getting a landline just so I can talk on the phone at home. When my contract runs out, I do not think I will renew my service with AT&T. I just think it is ridiculous to not be able to get service from a major carrier in a metropolitan area. Especially considering what I am paying each month and that friends with cheapo prepay phones get excellent coverage here.

Cingular in this area is terrible. Since they made the switch it's been wretched. I am fortunate to get 1 bar in my own house. Certainly nothing in the basement. If I go stand out in the street I will get a max. of 3 bars. Very disgruntling. Customer service with Cingular is also very frustrating. DON'T USE AT&T!

Love my iPhone -- hate the service. AT&T is unbelievably bad here in Linden Hills. I drop calls every five minutes, even when I am standing outside not moving, and away from any trees or overhangs. Lord help me if I am talking to another AT&T customer, as I have had as many as seven drops in five minutes with a friend who also has AT&T. Here is the thing. I am supposedly in AT&Ts best coverage area. Not their better coverage area, or their good coverage area, but their best coverage area. I can only wonder what those other coverage areas would be like. I suggest that if you live around here, you look to another provider.

I use to be with Qwest and always had good reception - but since I got my iphone Im stunned by the number of dropped calls I have with the ATT network - every day, several times a day calls get dropped - I never had this problem with other phones in the past. I'm not sure if it is partly the fault of the iphone but I have a friend who also have an iphone and he experiences the same thing. I live in Summit HOuse Condos which is all concrete and a high-rise and reception in the house it not good at all - better outside for sure - but even then - the dropped calls drive me nuts. But I love the phone too much to part with it right now.