Average reception, had to resort to a cell and data repeater at work. Cingular towers are rare most of cell network for Cingular devices are going through Suncom towers. Cingular changed to 10 digit dialing about three weeks ago and said nothing to anybody!

perfect service when I went on vacation

cell reception with Nextel is pretty good were I live also pretty good when I travel except when I go see in laws which live in starkville ms a country town with no digital coverage at all

nextel is great in winston salem were I live

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.

Alltel seems to have the best coverage by a couple bars in Forsyth where I work which is one big reason why I switched over. But really all over the area here the coverage is great. At WF and the other campuses here there appears to be towers very near because I'm always on full signal there. Also appears to do better than previous AT&T phone in mall and other locations here. It just seems like the signal doesn't drop off near as much as others indoors. Overall, I'm really happy with coverage. Plans are good too in my comparison. Alltel seems to offer more minutes than other for the price and My Circle, unlimited calling to any 10 numbers was a very good bonus compared to what other providers offered.

Dead spots, thru out house. Must find a good place, stand real still and cross my fingers, it holds!

Long Time Cingular customer here. Moved from Jones Town Rd with no land line and perfect reception to Town Home on Griffith Road. Had to get a land line -- less than 2 bars!

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.