nextel is great in winston salem were I live

north carolina state sux. I hate to live here. no predictable weather. no cellphone company wants to improve quality here. state govt. supports stupid suncom. supports tobbaco company. and no good place to visit - if u talk about blue ridge parkway - it sux... no maintenance - broken parkway all along its NC route. My advice LEAVE NORTH CAROLINA.

Reception is fine; but I'm pretty sure I'm paying more for Alltel than I need to be - thus I'm on the lookout for a new carrier.

I have not been able to pickup a Cingular tower for at least a month. Cingular started charging me for Roaming as well as Inbound Peak. I am on free inbound and have been for more than 5 years. It's not cheap but I have not switched because inbound was 24 / 7 free. Now I can't use my phone at all. Cingular has NO service and NO customer service here as far as I can tell.

Had AT&T, got switched to Suncom, suddenly couldn't make or receive calls, even up and down business 40 to Greensboro... but that was my fault. Most of the time, Suncom spent 15-20 mins trying to figure out if I was even a customer, then would mysteriously hang up when we got to what problems I was having with service. Worst I've ever experienced. Phone magically stopped connecting to networks for a week when they began insisting that I buy a new one so I switched to Cingular over a month ago. Old phone magically works again, new service is great so far, like the old service that I always enjoyed with AT&T.

signed with AT&T last year. when Cingular bought them out they gave the nC market to Suncom. Since then I have had nothing but problems. I have a family plan so when they started the switch they only sent me 1 sim card for a plan with 2 phones. I had to wait a week for the second sim card. Then my phone would not unlock to their network. They told me I would have to drive an hour to the nearest suncom location to fix my phone. I finally talked to someone and they sent me a new phone. After waiting another week to get my new phone I caled to switch and my wife's phone would not unlock but since they did my phone first they couldn't switch it back so my wife didn't have a phone that would work for a week while we waited for a new phone for her. When we finally got the phones working I find out that the reason my wife's phone wouldn't work was because the lady entered the wrong simcard #. A week after being with Suncom my wife's phone starts acting up saying that the simcard isn't working. They finally let me out of my contract and am now searching for a reliable phone service.