I purchased a phone from the alltell network and receive very limited service in the all of beaufort. The area where I live has zero service and the area where I work about 10 miles away has a very limited service.

Quote: Alltel works pretty well. The only problem is that there are a lot of trees in my neighborhood and that tower at the intersection I described is only 1.5 Miles away and I get zero bars in my house and one bar outside. :Unquote. This is the actual location of the that rating. (yes I am the same person who posted it) and Alltel just bought out Western Wireless (The CDMA division of Cellular One) and then today I upgraded my phone's firmware and it gets two bars there instead of one before. I sure hope it stays that way.

Alltel works pretty well. The only problem is that there are a lot of trees in my neighborhood and that tower at the intersection I described is only 1.5 Miles away and I get zero bars in my house and one bar outside

Signal dips in the more rural areas in the Beaufort area.

i dropped my phone in water and it started working again but I could never get reception anymore.

While GSM is all 5 bars downtown, I luckily can switch to TDMA with my GAIT phone for indoor service in my apartment. Away from windows, it tends to drop GSM calls. Outside on Ribaut it is 3 of 5 bars, and quirkily drops on occasion. They recently included hwy 17 / 21 to charleston, which was previously roaming. Pretty good for me!