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Whether its one bar or four bars, my reception is usually pretty good, unless I'm in a rural area, like Sams Point Rd.or Lands End Road. St. Helena Island is spotty, and I get no reception at the Hunting Island State Park Beach. In Beaufort city and on Hilton Head, my service works great. Along Hwy. 17 towards Charleston is also a bad spot for reception.

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!

Since Nextel combined with sprint, things have changed. Especially now that they have these new hybrid phones. Customer service has dramatically improved too from what I expeirenced almost 3 years ago. On the air station, I get 4-5 bars and even on the van pad inside a big metal box where I work, I get a solid 2 bars. Just fired Alltel after a month and a half. I heard good things about them but I was not impressed, with the coverage or their customer service. Cingular / AT&T was ok, but nothing compared to the current sprint / nextel. Even on Lady's Island, I get a solid 2-3 bars, sometimes 4, even DEEP into Sams Point Rd, where Alltel is lucky to have 1-2 bars.

Cingular is the worst phone company I've been with. There is no reception in the barracks, inside or out, and just to use my phone I have to go to the PX. The Razr is by far the worst but most expensive phone I've ever had. I thought it was supposed to be one of the best. I drop all my calls, even when I'm out in town, and the battery has a life of maybe two-thirds of the day.

In most places I get one or two bars. There are a few places on base where there are power lines where I get no signal and drop calls. Also inside any buildings I have no service. Rarely have I been able to talk for more than 5 min and the call wasnt dropped in this area.

Reception on Lady's Island is terrible. I've never had a problem with AT&T until I moved here and I refuse to get rid of them. I've had them when they were originally AT&T and then changed to Cingular and then back to AT&T... Beaufort is temporary, but for the rest of the country it works the best, I just wish since this is a military town they would do a better job at getting us some 3G service along with more bars.