May be temporary. Until three days ago (and for a good year back, which is when I started using them) they've been rock solid - never anything but full reception. Last three days it's been nearly dead calm - once in a great while I get a single bar and might be able to blast through a few bytes, but otherwise dead. Hopefully a temp problem.

Alltel has little to no reception in most of Atchison County. It does show this on their coverage map, that they have limited reception.

As far as I'm concerned, Cingular / AT&T is useless here. I want to throw my phone at the TV when I see them talking about "No dropped calls" and such like that... there are too many times when I go literally three HOURS without a signal. Drops off at will, in the middle of a phone call, or not. Completely worthless in Wichita. WTF man?

Up until Tuesday, May 1, we both had excellent reception here at the house. On that day we both lost bars on our 3220's and have not had service at the house since. If we go up the hill, we get service fine. This is the type of reception we got in our valley about 3-4 years ago, then it improved very dramatically; now they have regressed from full bars all the time back to 1-2 bars like years ago. Something changed somewhere! Numerous calls to T-Mo have yielded friendly courteous staff but no improvement. We know it's not the phone sets because we sim flopped and did not get service on the extra cell phone we have either. Will give them another few days, then we need to look elsewhere. We have loved T-Mo for years at this location, and are very disappointed with this surprisingly poor situation.

I cant beleive that I cant get any reception on either of my networks from here. I also have an international Sim card which I have used in very remote places and can not get any type of reception from that either.

Blue Rapids is in a valley,to get reception,you have to drive to the top of the hill.Altell does not have a tower within 20 miles of us,only cellularone

I always call a special someone when I'm about 5 miles north of Topeka because I know I won't have to talk long. It's better than faking a bad signal because it's a surprise to both of us when we're suddenly disconnected and he can't call me back. There is nothing, nada, not even a hint of a signal until the Holton water tower is visible.

We have a company in this area, and cell phones are a very necessary item to make our business successful. We have been with Alltell for many years. There is NO reception with any kind of cell phone or company. We are 12 miles from Newton and when you get 2 miles out of Newton it just won't work. It is extremely aggravating, because what good is a cell phone if it doesn't work? If you're lucky - you can sometimes call out, but either you have a dropped call or outrageous roaming charges.

Sometimes I get roaming but most of the time no service at all.

I have T-Mobile. I spotty service at best in St. Mary's. Once I head towards Wamego it does get better. Do we need a tower here or what?