If you are getting cellphone reception in the Connestee Falls community, I will love to hear your details on carrier, and phone model you are using. If I get lucky you will provide the information via your comments on this site. Connestee Falls is located south of Brevard, NC on highway 276. Please, let me hear from you.

I bought the Blackberry 7100g as combo phone / Blackberry having switched from Sprint / Nextel. The data signal is fine and I get my Blackberry messages with no problem. I have a terrible time with phone service. Almost no signal the entire length of both Sharon Rd.and Park Road. No signal in the BofA Corporate Center (where my office is). I called Cingular three times to complain, they said last time it was "ice on the tower" and tht all customers in NC and SC had no cell service. When I told them my problem had been going on for months, they couldn't deal with it and told me I had to go into a local retail store. Boo to Cingular.

Western part of Madison county isn't covered at all by anyone! Hot Springs doesn't have ANY coverage. Looking at a cell coverage map shows coverage all around this area, we're in a coverage hole.

Bad reception

stand completely still to get 5 seconds of reception

Had TDMA Service with AT&T Wireless which was sold to Suncom which was sold back to Cingular. With AT&T Wirless and Suncom I had strong Digital service in this area. With Cingular I had digital service up until 11 / 29 / 2005 when Cingular claims to have done "network consolidation". Ever since the consolidation, I have ZERO digital service from Cingular using my TDMA phone. Cingular says I will have to switch to GSM to get digital service again. I chose a Tri-mode phone because the service worked even in remote areas where the phone switched to modes "Extended area" and "Roam". Now all I get from Cingular is "Extended area" and "Roam" service. Cingular will definitely loose my business unless this is fixed.

Can not use it at my house, inside or out

No reception. In the largest town in the county.

Have good service with Alltel almost anywhere in the country except (of course) my house. Unable to make a call. Trying to figure out if there is another company that has better service in this area or is there simply no towers in the area. I wish companies made phones for people who actually used phones to place phone calls and not concentrate on cameras, i-tunes, and all of the other mess that likely takes away from engineering needed to allow the phone to receive a good signal.

Just over the ridge it works just fine.