No bars! If you can make a call it may be dropped. Totally unacceptable!

Just heard that Charter Communications expects to have a cell phone on the market in the near future. The towers are already up.

I have no service inside the house most of the time, and barely service outside the house. I assume it is because of so many trees and being close to the water, but service should not be that bad. I did have better signal with Verizon than I did with AT&T. At the intersection of Crocker and Metro Pkwy. I have 5 bars, but at most 2 bars on my street.

I have had Alltel in Houghton Lake for over a year now and the reception has never been great at all. If you are in town, a mere 8 miles from the house, you get good reception, however I do not get any reception at home or at work (in Roscommon) and over 70% of the calls in those two areas are dropped or not received at all. All areas around the lake are extremely poor in reception. I dropped Nextel when I moved up here and Alltel's reception is about the same if not worse than Nextel / Sprint for this area. As you can see, I have had two different phones and it has not made a difference in reception. Even updating the roaming did nothing at all. Looks like I shop for another carrier.

verizon is the absloute worst. unreliable even when you get a couple of bars. the locals use alltell in this neck of the woods

When ATT&T took over we thought reception would improve. NOT. We still the got the occassional 1 bar reception if you luckily held phone just right. Otherwise, no reception. Inside our trailer definitely no bars. Invested in 3" magna-mount antenna (mounted on fridge metal vent cover and ran through window--aluminum roof doesn't do it). We now get 3-4 bars connected to antenna, but phone's not portable now. Better than nothing, I guess.

I have to be approximately 10 miles south, east, or west from Chesaning in order to get a signal with T Mobile. Going north it's a little farther before I can get a signal.

At&T told me I could make calls, however I have "NO BARS", where I live (Water Front Lot" and can't make any 911 calls. Had a major problem and had to drive 3 miles to 90th and Big Stone Lake Rd.to make a 911 call. Got 3 bars there... . My friend was luckly he came out ok,not thanks to AT&T. Can't wait to dump AT&T, got one year togo... ... ..

May get one bar if weather is just right. Can't receive or make any calls. Now have to get a hard-line phone service just for the 911 calls. Also,now looking for a cel-service that covers my area. ATT, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint don't work eighter. Don't know about Mobiledia??

Phone drops out between Oakleigh and Kinney NW, can sometimes pick up signal in Standale just east of Kinney and then drops again.