Bottomfeeder

My wife and I just moved to Santa Rosa Beach from Atlanta and we are renting a house for a year to see if we would like to make this our permanent home. My question to all the locals out there is what cell phone provider has the best coverage along 30-A? We are currently with T-Mobile but I'm having to stand on the roof on one foot to get any signal at all. In Atlanta we did not even have a land line but I'm thinking we might have to break down and get one here. Thanks for your help.

ricklys

We have had excellent service with Verizon. Alltel isn't bad either.

30ABandMan

Over in SGB it can be spotty on Alltel. I sometimes have dropped calls east of 395. Until recently, we had to stand outside to make a phone call and I don't always get all of my data services on my Blackberry while inside.

We had Nextel before changing to Alltel and Nextel was excellent here.

closer2fine

Alltel & Verizon merged. IMO this is the best coverage along 30A (with Sprint coming in second)

FF 2

Sprint and Nextel, I have had it for years now.

ItzKatzTime

Have been with Alltel for 7 years and today switched everything over to Verizon.
Saving 150.00 per month and he says we will have good pickup coming from both Verizon and Alltel towers. We'llllll see. Love my new phone. They have great deals right now. That's in Sandestin next to ihop.

Don't have a land line thank God, so we need good pickup.

30ABandMan

While we're on the subject...

Those of you who are with AT&T and have iPhones, how is your service? Ya know, they just lowered the price of the 8G 3G iPhone to 99 bucks effective I believe June 19th. That coincides with launch with their new 3G S iPhone. I'm itching to have an iPhone but I worry about reception in this area especially inside brick or block buildings.

ItzKatzTime

I've wanted one too...but have heard the service was not good.
A friend of mine had one and loved it and hated it. It was really cool!!!

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30ABandMan

Our house is made of block (big bad wolf proof apparently) and luckily, our neighbors both have iPhones. I borrowed one the other day and it had a full signal inside. My BB kills itself searching for a signal in here. I don't get all of the data services. When I was at the high school the other day, my bb had no signal inside the building. My Nextel used to have a full signal inside...

It will be great when AT&T finally has 3G in this area too.

Beach Runner

We've had T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint. All sketchy on 30A. None of them get a signal in Seaside or Grayton.

We have Verizon now because we get a discount through our employer. Sometimes I drive to US 98 where I get true Verizon signal (not extended network) to do a *228 to reset.

What's weird is that I don't get a signal on the third floor at the beach house. The other floors are fine. Wouldn't you think that higher would be better?

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ray

in grayton and 30-a verizon is hit or miss. whats funny is the service is spotless on the beach but driving up and down 30-a its got tons of dead spots and a lot of dropped calls

Bobby J

I have Altel which is merging with Verizon. I use to have a few spotty areas along 30A but lately my reception has been excellent. I even use it in my home in Point Washington. Not sure why we even have a home phone except I think it is required for the INTERNET. Which is odd because the INTERNET is wireless. I have not even answered home phone in a year.

I feel the merging of Alltel and Verizon will probably make it the best bet locally. Had Nextell years ago and had lots of reception problems and poor service in general.

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JUL

verizon is spotty. in wc and in seacrest