Service in Old Forge is okay. In town there's only 3 bars and no service in the stores. The closer you get to the lake it goes up and at the lake its 5. Cingular and Verizon are the only ones with coverage, with the exception of Sprint (wich uses cingular's tower).

Although my AT&T phone said I was hitting a Cellular One tower, my cellular one phone had no reception. This was true for many other places in New York, all the way to the PA border. Even when I showed 3 or 4 bars, the calls would either fail or drop almost immediately. Since I was in the 15 day window, I returned the phone. The store manager said that the phone was oprobably bad, but he would not extend the trial period so I could find out. I never thought I would say a service was worse than AT&T, but now I have found one. Oh and I hear Cellular One now owns AT&T Wireless... coincidence, I think not!