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I have Sprint and in hatteras, Alltel launched EV-DO service on one or two of their towers because over on ocracoke island where I live, I got EV-DO on my Sprint phone( it roams on alltel) and I also got some poor evdo service on my laptop connect card from sprint. I hope they come to ocracoke and update the tower and add EVDO, 1xrtt is only like 300 kbps at best.

Just got AT&T and it is great. Full bars everywhere in town, when headed toward the Hatteras Ferry the signal drops to like 1 bar. Once on the ferry it picks back up. Few dead zones between Hatteras and Nags head and up thru Currituck. Once you get on I 64 the coverage is great. In the Norview Neighborhood of Norfolk right by 5 points the phone drops calls and has virtually no signal inside the house. Janaf area of norfolk has great coverage with the new 4g internet speeds! Much better than verizon.

No voice or data reception on Ocracoke Island as of 5 / 11 / 11.

Att put a tower on ocracoke! Full bars of 3g all around ocracoke now! Dead spot between the pony pens and the hatteras ferry. Once you get past the main park service campground full bars of 3g!

No reception here. I have had Alltel and Sprint in the past and it worked, but no reception at all on Ocracoke.

For ATT / Cingular, you can go to the north end of the island next to the ferry dock to Cape Hatteras. There you can get reception with ATT. Otherwise you're plum out of luck.

I recently spent 6 days on Ocracoke Island and never got any reception. This has happened on previous visits. I am about to change and am planning to go with Verizon. I am tired of going out of town and not being able to use my phone anywhere. Used to have Sun Com and had no problems. Now with Cingular / AT&T, I get nothing everywhere I go. Very disappointed.

While this is a Sprint data laptop card, it is using alltel's 3g evdo here in tarboro. With a Sprint phone, when you open up the internet browser, and it connects to the 3g, signal goes to full bars. Once you try and call out, it uses sprint's voice network and only has about 1 or 2 bars. The further I go in my house the worse it gets. The ride on 64 to Raleigh is terrible, you have reception for like 10 minutes and then once you are outside of the town around the interstate, coverage drops off. With Sprint in NC and most of VA, roaming coverage is more prominent. If you buy a Sprint phone in the central NC and southeastern VA (norfolk, va beach and somewhat currituck and all the way down the obx) make sure you put the phone on "automatic" and not "sprint only" because Sprint roams a bunch around here. Once in raleigh, signal is great, however around the blueridge rd area, signal fades.

Sprint out here on ocracoke is a sketchy thing! yesterday I had evdo and today I don't! its always roaming on Alltel or us cellular. I have traveled all over with Sprint and as long as your on a major road or in a semi big town, you are ok. I travel from Ocracoke to norfolk and fredricksberg alot and Sprint always works fine in those two areas. Once you are off the oregon inlet bridge, Sprint has native signal. There's one place through currituck that signal is minimal for like 20 minutes but then it comes right back. It even works in the tunnel that takes you over to hampton and richmond va!

i love my Sprint service down here on ocracoke... it never worked before but I don't know what they did because now I have 3 to 4 bars all the time and I have had only one dropped call... so I recomend Sprint to all people in the Nc area i have had no troubles what so ever