You can see 2 towers. One is Alltel and the other a private leased. Alltel is perfect reception and Cingular is non-existent. This area is right beside a gold course listed on the Audubon Trail and designed and lived at by Hal Sutton.

Pitiful; that Alltel claims coverage here is an insult to the consumer.

Had great reception on my digital / analog and was forced to change to GSM. Reception became less that great. Since late July, 2005 Cingular as degraded and reception is poor to none at home and spotty in the Northern Vermilion Parish area. Cingular does not seem to be concerned.

If you can get through this area without dropping a call... Please let me know what type of phone you are using...

Driving between these few blocks, my call drops EVERY TIME. I drive past every day, and never have I been able to keep a call when I pass this spot. It's terrible.

We had reception until they bought AT&T.

Reception non-existant once in the neighborhood. Useless indoors or outdoors at home.

service in the Bayou Liberty area is non-exisant on verizon. I am now getting maginal service inthe same area with Alltel

Here is a sad but funny---and true comment. We lived just outside DeRidder, on the South side, and had somewhat fair reception in town only dropping 3 calls to cross town. The service at our house was REALLY bad and the only way to make or receive a call was to kneel down at a North facing window with the phone DIRECTLY in the middle at the bottom of the window. ONE------sixteenth of an inch to the right or left and the phone would not work or a call would be dropped. After MANY, MANY, MANY, calls to Sprint with complaints, going to Sprint Service Centers to have the phones checked, and getting new phones, I was informed that my house was not really in the Sprint calling area. This is after being a Sprint customer for years. I was informed that Sprint was planning to build a tower near. NEAR------ the closest SPRINT tower to Deridder or Leesville is not where a person of sound mind would think it would be---in one of the two towns. I have just moved to Pitkin, La. and of course other phones work but not Sprint. So--- Now I pay for a service and I have to leave the house to use it.

I have been having this phone (N1100) with Cingular for about a year. Signal strength was average to good up until about a month ago. Now, both phones have no reception inside our home and one or two bars outside. Cingular cannot or will not provide an explanation. My mother's Tracphone's reception is also not as good as it used to be.