I moved into the area in 2005 and had Verizon at the time. I rarely had coverage, so I switched to Alltel. Until about two months ago I had excellent coverage. Alltel can only say I should have excellent coverage at my location. Verizon said the same thing before I left.

Dead spots all over area. Great reception throughout Durham though. Wish they would put another tower close by!

Constant drop outs 4 out of 5 calls either received or sent. Many instances of not getting any signal at all. There are two cell towers within 1 mile.

Constant Drop Outs on Incoming and Outgoing Calls. Anywhere from 1-4 bars and hearing about 1 out of 3 words. Called customer support but they did not offer any assistance.

Reception nearby is usually 3 bars outside with 1-2 bars inside. The service is acceptable between here and Hillsborough, NC with only a few localized spots of service drop.

almostevery place but where I work and live I get good reception. however between duke and guess oc carver I only get about 60% if that. this is the same problem I had with sun com. probably shared towers.

Reception inside house is minimal with frequent dropped calls. Signal outside is a bit better. 1 / 2 mile in any direction and it is at 4 bars.

I tried Alltel because of the My Circle deal so I could call back home for free since I'm here at school and just switched from Verizon. I don't hear nasty comments about either like I do about Cingular here. But Alltel seems to have a better signal all around the campus. Maybe they have an extra tower or something or maybe it was the phone I had. But I can make call inside anywhere in a couple buildings I had to walk outside with Verizon. Around the city, Alltel also does a great job also and after trying it out for a couple months, there's not a single place in the entire Triangle where I've noticed my phone dropping below 3 bars and it's usually on 5. That was a big surprise because Verizon would tend to have a lot of problems outside the metro area and American Village was bad too along with several other places that were spotty. But the call quality seems better on Alltel too. But I would recommend Alltel for Durham. I'm very happy with their service here.

Reception isn't good at all in buildings on campus. I'm wondering if it's the phone. Wish Alltel offered a wider selection of phones. Overall I'm very happy with the reception but I haven't tried any other providers in this area with which to compare. the only other suggested provider would be Verizon. It would be a benefit for me to switch if I could still use the phone in the Duke Med Center. I'm not sure any service provider can do that though.

can't really make a call. it sucks.

Coverage is awful. I can't even send texts... my girlfriend couldn't get my responses so she dumped me.... haha no, not really, but I truly can't respond to texts because the signal is so bad and yes, this truly is a problem with my girlfriend. No good, AT&T.

No reception on the first floor of my house. 1-2 bars in neighborhood, generally.

Weak and inconsistent signal strength inside my house in the Bradbury subdivision off of Lumley Rd. One minute it is fine and next minute, call is dropped. Cannot depend on the phone for work. Also poor signal strength in Whole Foods on Broad St. in Durham, and in Earth Fare and Target in the Brier Creek shopping center. I do not recommend AT&T!

I used to have decent AT&T reception in my home but something switched within the last two weeks and I can't get any reception on my blackberry. This is jeopardizing my ability to work from home because I have alot of meetings on my blackberry. I'm in a panic because I'm under contract through work. I wish I knew what AT&T did because something drastically changed and it's very frustrating

Terrible reception in the house. Connections are dropped and conversations are nearly impossible. Can get some reception on the corner of the bed if I sit up straight. I have to go out on our deck to have a clear signal.

AT&T Wireless stinks in my area. I often cannot get any signal in my house, and there are several large "dead zones" nearby, along MLK Jr. Pkwy, along, Garret Rd., along Hope Valley Rd., Academy, you name it. I'm consideriung swtiching to either Verizon or T-Mobile. Can anyone make a detailed and coherent recommendation? Oh, does the actual phoine make a difference in the signal power? I have a Nokia RH-74, which came with the old Cingular plan, but I submersed it in a cup of water a few years ago. I dried it out thoroughly, and it now works, but it's a big, heavy phone and I never could figyure out how to use the phone book features. Ridiculously complicated. Thanks.

Occasionally 1 bar if I get on house roof. Had to purchase AT&T microcell to be able to use phone inside. Large signal hole along much of Whitfield.

Service has gone downhill since AT&T bought Cingular. More frequent outages, voice mail is a joke - messages often delivered days / weeks later (in one case 3 months late).

In my house: downstairs you can run or hide, don't matter, you lose the signal! upstairs, I have a bar, still calls go to the mailbox, or I lose connection after waiting one hour on hold: operator comes up, and boom! signal is lost, lost! Hey big fat-cats AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and the likes: Stop paying ads every six seconds AT MY COST, and start doing something about your TOWERS and equipment! Your empty SLOGAN: 'More Bars" is full of BS! Or you'll end up being competed and replaced by Koreans or the Chinese, you nitwits!...

In my house, no bars. Outside my house, no bars. Anywhere from Durham to Chapel Hill, in my car, inside a store, outside --no bars. Calls go straight to voice-mail When calling AT&T, response has been: "Coverage in your area is excellent"