The phone works ok large city areas other then having a bad echo 50% of the time. When traveling through the state it doesn't work in so many areas. I asked the Nextel dealer in the dead areas who tried to sell me a $220. dollar antenna for my vehicle.

This is our home. There is almost never any signal here, and when there is, we can never connect. Didn't purchase the phones for home use, but was promised there would be reception here. There is a new tower just north of us, unfortunately it is Nextel and were are locked in for almost two more years... ... ... ..

Like many other reviews I am reading, I have Verizon and I cannot get service in my home. It is very sporadic and drops calls constantly. Also driving down Grand River towards Ada I have problems with drop calls. Everywhere else seems to be pretty good coverage, except where I use it the most.

AHHH! No body told me there was no service here when I bought my phone! There is no coverage at all here - gotta go 15 miles towards i75 to get roaming coverage, over 30 miles towards alpena to get roaming! T-Mobile you got some work to do

This area is NOT in any way covered by tmobile. You have to go around 15 miles in every direction to find service

just bought this and when I got home there was no signal but if you look at the coverage areas in the brochure is shows Davison being covered 100%, I am returning them tomorow

Incredibly low signal strength. Must have a 3 watt transceiver. Little toy hand held pocket phones are totally useless. No tower nearby to my knowledge. Have offered a tower spot on our land but they don't take us up on it. This is a big recreation area year round.

I have to drive into Grayling to get reception.

I always drop calls on Hamilton and Grand River near Indian Hills. VERY frustrating!

All our Nextel phones (including the two new contracts we'd just added) stopped getting any reception last spring (it was poor prior to that). Weeks on the phone with customer service and the answer we got was - believe it or not "Leaves on the trees seem to be interfering with receptoin". Incredulous I informed them that in the area of the country there were leaves on the trees about 8 months of the year. I added that I only wanted to pay my bill 8 months of the year. I can't get out of the new contracts, I did get out of one and will be able to get out of the final soon. What a nightmare.