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Alltel works great up here, but only due to CDMA roaming. While they have a license to cover up here, they haven't yet... from my house, on 191, I'm using Sprint. Took a trip to the Blue Ridge Pkwy. yesterday, and was on Verizon the whole time... when you're going 45 MPH in a GMC Yukon, the coverage is in and out, but stopped at the overlooks or on the trails, it's very usable in 911 situations... and who goes out on the trails to chat or change cable service??? If you want to find out who you are roaming on with any network, dial *228 and listen. By the way, the reason that CDMA is better than GSM (Alltel, Sprint, VZW VS. AT&T / SunCom) is because CDMA has been deployed for about 8 years longer than the latter in America and you're probably double as likely to have roaming coverage in rural areas with CDMA.

Contrary to the last commentator (is there a way to report that post for offensive content?), I do not even know how to make meth nor do I use a CB radio. Neither do my neighbors in the immediate surrounding area. No moonshine distillers or sisters that are also wives either, in case you were wondering. Got to love people who put the first three letters in the word "assumption"... They are correct in their statement that after the firehouse leaving Hendersonville there is no reception, however. The only company that seems to officially cover this area is Verizon. I do not own a Verizon phone at this time, so I cannot confirm this. Despite AT&T having a tower on the other side of the mountain range (less than 2.5 miles from my location), reception indoors at our house is awful. If I walk down the hill and into the valley, I can get 1 bar in spots. Sprint / Virgin seems to do alright for voice and data indoors (one bar depending upon where you are in the house), but their official maps do not cover our area. I'm debating purchasing a Verizon MiFi since their map lists our area as being within the 3G coverage area. If I bite the bullet, I'll let you all know how it works.

AT&T added their 3g network to Hendersonville and it is amazing! Some dead zones aren't dead zones anymore, call quality is improved, and data is 3x faster than Verizon (in my tests)

Coming from Verizon (the monopoly carrier around here) I was expecting a HUGE drop in coverage quality. While service did go down in some places (Crab Creek Rd), call quality increased 10 fold as well as lees dropped calls. If you live somewhere with AT&T signal, they're the better choice simply because of call quality itself. According to a recent press release, 3g is expected sometime by the end of the year for both Henderson and Buncombe counties. This is great news!

Against a common misconception that AT&T in the mountains sucks, I find it on par with Verizon and US Cellular and at times better. AT&T seems to keep a more stable signal and has higher call quality which leads to less dropped calls and network busy signals than with Verizon. This could be capacity issues as well considering the majority of people have Verizon. There are a few dead zones (mainly in backwoods rural places in the middle of no where) but suprisingly I could call and text from the top of mount mitchell as well as hiking up mount pisgah. As with all carriers coverage on the parkway is spotty. If you travel to anywhere else in North Carolina, AT&T is the only way to go. They are FAR superior to Verizon in both Raleigh and Charlotte

Great reception on Kanuga Rd. and throughout Hendersonville. Dead spot located at Kanuga / Old Kanuga intersection. Coverage maps show moderate service but actually no usable signal (phone shows no service). A new tower to cover Crab Creek Rd. would be good.

Initially I was nervous about switching to AT&T from Verizon but now I am glad I did. Coverage with Verizon was ok at best and call quality wasn't the greatest which suprised me because the majority of the people here have Verizon. Verizon has coverage in a few places on the parkway AT&T doesn't but for the most part they are equal. AT&T has FAR better call quality than Verizon. Verizon has their 3g network in Hendersonville, AT&T not yet. They just added Greenville though and Asheville is next. Other than that no reception issues. I really do have more bars in most places than I did with Verizon as well as less dropped calls and better call quality.

Pretty bad in this area. Hendersonville seems pretty good, and fletcher Too. But Howard gap Rd. from Brookside to Naples is horrible. Better buy a headset, and set the phone down to talk. Seems to do decent then. Just dont move the phone. If your indoors, keep it on the window sill or at least out of your pocket. Otherwise no one will be able to reach you.

I tried T-Mobile, Verizon and Cingular. Cingular / BellSouth bundle said I had 30 day trial period. No reception in my apartment (even though I can SEE a cell tower from my living room), my parking lot, or in my office at the college. Borrowed a US Cellular phone and got great coverage at home and office. Tried to port my Cingular number and now all of a sudden they never heard of the 30 day trial offer, even tho' 2 people told me that and I have their names and dates / times of calls. I'm going to complain to the CEO of Cingular, BellSouth and the FCC. US Cellular seems the service to buy in Hendersonville.

used to be decent, in past 2 1 / 2 months, continuous dropped calls and "service not available". have talked with at least 3 other Sprint customers all of whom have the same problem, totally unstable signal. Even at the Sprint store on 4 seasons blvd. they are surprised at the instability of their service and claim it's a tower issue. Sprint customer service says there are no issues in the area and network coverage is from 92 - 98% on all 5 towers, they lie. I have been averaging over 70 dropped calls a month.