I can get hardly any service even though I can see the cell phone towers blinking across the sound. Less than 5 miles as the crow files. They blink red off and on all night. What is most astonishing is that I can more often than not often hear the person clearly saying " are you there.. are you there?? they cannot hear me I can hear them fine. So I redial and redial and redial racking up big bills with little communication. Or I drive to the ferry landing and waste gas (carbon foot print) just to call and sometimes even in the rain I have problems there getting through with the new blackberry. I had a LG chocolate so I thought that was my problem but the tour is even worse and harder to dial from to boot. I live off the grid with solar so I do not have a land line option. Basically everyone on the mainland thinks I am deadbeat and avoiding their calls. I don't mind living withour communication but hey lighten up on the scorn from the mainland phone junkies.

AT&T generally unavailable across Orcas Island. Nothing here at our home. A little in Eastsound, depending--the Wash Fed parking lot is decent. No carrier has decent coverage on the island. The County is working to changge the NIMBY cell tower rules; hope this means cell companies improve this situation soon.

Absoutely no reception on much of Orcas Island. If you're at ferry landing or in Deer Harbor, you get fair reception; everywhere else, in our experience, horrible.

Verizon has good reception at points on Orcas Island, including the Ferry landing (where they have a cell site), but very poor reception in the only real city on the Island.