T-Mobile needs to install a tower or two in Eastern Oklahoma City. Service blows in this area. Reception improves as you hit the major roads, I-240 / I-40. The Lake Stanley Draper area has very little coverage. I am located three miles east of the Draper lake dam. As I write this review I have two bars.

Service was very poor after the merge with ATT wireless and Alltel and I was going to pay the 175 early disconnect fee until I switched to ALLTEL's CDMA network. Ever since the change over service has been great, I am always in remote areas of Oklahoma and there are very few dead spots. I want everyone that has an ATT phone to go into your nearest Alltel store and swicth your phone and get over this headache. GO RYAN NEWMAN!

Alltel beats Cingular hands down!

I had good service with AT&T. Since this big "switch" to Cingular then to Alltel I have had nothing but trouble. I get dropped calls, even though I have good bars on my phone my friends and family can not hear me or I sound garbled. Customer service sucks with Alltel and I have only gotten 4 mailings from them. 3 bills and a "Welcome" letter I got 3 months after I found out I had been sold. I was trying to pay a bill by calling 611 and could not get through, so I went into a Alltel location to pay the bill... they could not find me in the system. Turns out I still have to sign up with Alltel before December 31, 2005 or my phone stops working and I get charged $175.00 early termination fee (Like it was my choice to leave AT&T). Anyway back to my bill, how did I pay it... I had to call an 800 number which got me to Cingular, from there I had to send in my check made out to AT&T to Cingular to pay my Alltel bill. Is this messed up or what? At different times when I have called into Alltel, the customer service reps have been very rude. I even had one snotty little twit snidly tell me "and whose fault is that, who had been using your phone". I hate Alltel and am planning to sign up with Alltel, then drop them (since I saw on TV that they will not charge the $175.00 to any AT&T customer that wants to leave) and get a new cell company. Alltel sucks! My advise to anyone looking for a cell phone company... Look else where!

All I can say is Cingular Sux

I travel frequently inside Oklahoma and Alltel sucks. It is nowhere nearly as good as the old AT&T TDMA service back in the day. I get dropped calls or calls so static filled you can't hear the person you're speaking with. Before you say it's the phone, I have tried the Motorola V710, terrible, the Nokia CDMA candy bar style phone they no longer offer, it was an improvement at the expense of battery life over the V710. The Nokia 6255i sucks as well. Get some new phones Alltel. I do use NMO mount external antennas and 3 watt repeaters and direct connect cellular amplifiers in my vehicles as well, but nothing will help this service. I don't know where to look, I've tried t-mobile, Sprint, US Cellular, Cingular, and now Alltel, none of them are very reliable outside major metropolitan areas, and some of them aren't inside metro areas. Bring back the old AT&T!

Alltel is a breath of fresh air to the Oklahoma City market. After the confusion fueled by the ATTWS / Cingular merger, it is about time for a solid company to come in and offer relief to a wireless customer base that has so long been ignored. I highly recommend Alltel wireless. you may have not heard of them, but they've been around a long time. Check there website and tell your boss, it's time to switch.

AllTel SUCKS! AT&T had perfect reception was a great service.Altell took over and I can't even call my nextdoor neighboor. worst service in the country and there customer service lets not even get started there! I will be serching for a new service no matter what lies Alltel promises!

Hate it! I get "No signal" or "Signal faded" on almost every single call, even outside. I would go back to T-Mobile, even though they're more expensive because the reception is sooo much better. Hate Sprint!

We have traveled this weekend trying to enforce our 15 trial period for the change-over to Alltel. The coverage was terrible. Lost calls, no signal, no picture or movie camera option worked unless there was a 4-bar signal present. Once there was, it was lost again. We stopped in Sayre to avoid a rainstorm, but the signal failed as I moved around in the truckstop to get a better signal. After leaving OKC, 45 miles into the trip along I-40, one of the most traveled highways in the U.S., we lost signal and calls all the way to Amarillo. We stopped again 29 miles from El Reno on the way back. Again, the signal changed inside the store from place to place. It was terrible. I would not recommend Alltel. The loss of GSM service is a disaster. Alltel brags about investing 59 million in upgrading the systems. That, in the tellecomm. world, is not that much of an investment. I think that most will find that after switching to Alltel, another company would be the best bet.

When AT&T in Oklahoma City was purchased by Alltel, my cell phone service went to crap. However, after I signed-up with Alltel and switched to the CDMA phone my service has been superb. I have found crystal clear communication with the Alltel service, even in remote areas of Oklahoma where I had trouble with AT&T in the past.

More Bars does not mean more signal! They can calibrate the signal meter to show more bars with less signal. I get 4 bars and lousy service. I use a Nextel phone at the intersection 63rd and Macarthur in Warr Acres OK. I like Nextel because all my incoming calls are free. If the incoming calls were not free I would drop this cell phone, everyone at work would drop theirs too.

Perfect reception here and pretty much everywhere I go with Cingular. I love it. I'm so glad I dropped the Alltel crap and came to Cingular.

Terrible Terrible Terrible,l Cant remember the last time I had a clear call! Either breaking up all the time or just flat out drop the call... .I hate Alltell!

Sprint absolutely blows... ..the recption is terrible everytime I walk into a building... ..at work as soon as I walk in... .i get the classic searching for signal icon and it stays there until I leave. dont waste money on sprint... ... can you hear me now?? only when I stand on my roof.

It sounds to me that the guy who was complaining about Alltel quoting him one price then charging him another just isn't smart enough to read his contract and / or bill. You need to read the fine print before you sign anything. I have worked for a cell phone company for almost 10 years and I assure you that cell phone companies do not put one thing on the contract then charge you another. If we did that we would all be out of business. If you write a letter to the BBB or the FCC and say something so silly you will be laughed at. By the way, you will not get a supervisor to call you back because I can tell you we don't have time for uneducated and unfounded complaints. We only deal with legitimate issues.

I wanted to use TMobile inside our plant. I told TMobile what the use of the phone would be. They assured me their service would work. I had no service at all except in the parking lot. I cancelled the service after 4 hours. They tried to bill me $85.00. Now we are down to $9.00 for the calls I made from the parking lot. I told them I wouldn't pay 9 cents for their worthless system. They said they were going to turn the $9 over to a collection agency. After I stopped laughing I said, "Bring it on."

We brought our Nextel with us from Michigan a year ago and have only been disappointed when we were traveling way out on back roads. We NEVER lose our signals in town. It seems like everyone else we talk to does. We will resign with Nextel when our contract runs out.

I have no problem with the reception. My issue is being told I would be charged one price and then getting the bill and being charged a higher price. Now to cancel my service it is going to cost $350 (2 phones). I have been trying to speak to a supervisor with Alltel for 3 1 / 2 weeks now and no one can tell me who the manager is much less talk to that person. I am promised everytime that a supervisor will call me back the next day and I am yet to receive a call. I was an AT&T customer for 8 years before being sold to Alltel. I will inform every person I know NOT to get service with Alltel as well as right a letter to the Better Business Bureau regarding their selling practices and customer service issues.

I've had more dropped calls in the last weeks than 15 or 20 years ago with a brick or the reception is so bad you cannot carry on a conversation. ATT / Cingular / Alltel FCC directed merger is a milestone of bad news for consumer. As a business owner, this is a catastrophe. I need an alternate company without early contract cancel penalty and am filing a complaint with the AGs office.