Cell phone reception?

[jenseib]

How is the reception at Disney? We have Nextel and Alltel. Usually the ynever get the same reception. It seems if one is bad the other gets it good. I just want to be sure we can get in touch with people at home, as we are dairy farmers and "emergencies" happen every day.

 

[Servants of Evan]

My inlaws used Alltel down at WDW with no issues. I can report we had not one issue with Verizon either.

 

[karibritt01]

We use Nextel. Our reception was good at CSR, but hit and miss in the parks.

 

[hmillerbarilla]

we have cingular/at&t and have had no problems at all anywhere at WDW. Have fun!

 

[Art&Kim]

We have sprint which is the same as nextel and I could talk to home (St Louis) from the queue inside rockn rollercoaster! Also my phone is one that has the antenna on the inside.

 

[PrincessV]

It's gotten MUCH better in the last year or two. I have T-Mobile and didn't use to have reception within most parks, but had no porblems anywhere on my last trip, Dec. 2006.

 

[storzo]

I used to have Nextel and it hardly worked anywhere. I couldn't even use it in my house. Now, I use Verizon and so far, so good...knock wood.

 

[mmessler]

I have Virgin Mobile, which from what I've read operates off of the Sprint network, and have never had any problems.

 

[minnierocks]

No problems with Alltel

 

[DznyLvr2005]

I had AT&T (CINGULAR) the old Cingular which is the new AT&T ... anyway.... Last year my sis loves the pooh ride so I called her and stuck the phone up so she could hear it from home the whole time and even in the building, it was fine. DIdn't have a problem with reception..
Course, now I switched to Verizon, so who knows what it will be like this year.

 

[diseyore]

T-mobile has great reception through out the parks, even inside the rides. I have lots of friends with Nextel that have a hit and miss problem all over Florida. I guess that is why you see the bumper stickers that say "Nextel Sucks"

 

[alyssa810]

I've always had Verizon, and the reception has gotten progressively better over the last 5-7 years. I would think that would be the same situation for most companies, but that's just an assumption.

 

[mericletwins]

I have never had a problem with Nextel.

 

[NC State]

We were just there Oct 28-Nov 4; both parties had Alltel and Nextel we had no problems calling back to North Carolina. My brother received a lot of business calls on his Nextel.

 

[jennifer03878]

If I remember correctly we had no issues with service through the majority of the parks last year. I had great service by the pool at the All Star Sports (especially at 6am when I called into one of my customes.. Bad Me ) I think everywhere else we were fine.

 

[ms_mckenna]

Your Altell should be fine that is what DH's work phone is and noone had a problem getting a hold of him while we were there in November. sigh. Ours is Sprint which is supposed to be the same as Nextel and we had no problems with it as well.

 

[byoung]

we have cingular/at&t and have had no problems at all anywhere at WDW. Have fun!

I agree.

 

[jenseib]

We jsut got back. DH's Nextel had the best reception. He had a bit of a problem at DTD, as I tried to call him and his phone never rang. My reception there was hit or miss too. I could have full bars one spot and take to steps to no reception.
My Alltel had no reception at our room at the Pop, shihc was a bit of a problem, since DH tired calling me a few times too, and my phone wouldn't ting there. But for the most part they worked fine.

 

[kimis]

How is the reception at Disney? We have Nextel and Alltel. Usually the ynever get the same reception. It seems if one is bad the other gets it good. I just want to be sure we can get in touch with people at home, as we are dairy farmers and "emergencies" happen every day.

We use Sprint and never had any problems in the parks or at DTD. However we stay at POR and the cell phones won't work in the resort rooms. Don't ask me why but you always see people standing outside their rooms talking on their phones. The cell phones work better than the two way radios (at least I think they do)

 

[jenseib]

DH had good reception on his 2 way. He used that ALOT!