Best Cell Phone Coverage in Eagle Co? Sprint, Verizon or AT&T? (moving to)

[carpediem71]

Hi-

Moving to Eagle County in 6 weeks and my cell contract has just ended so I am searching for the best coverage. Each website tells me that their coverage is fine, but I want to hear from some of you that have these carriers as to the real story!

I'm not interested in anything here other than coverage.

Thanks!

[jazzlover]

Verizon or Alltel has about the best overall coverage in rural Colorado. The I-70 corridor (loathsome place that it is, in my opinion) has pretty good cell coverage by most all carriers. I have Verizon and it works pretty well there.

If you are traveling in the rest of Colorado, Verizon probably has a slight edge in coverage overall, with Alltel having a little better coverage in some areas of south-central and southwestern Colorado.

Though the cellular companies are no longer (as of 2/28/08) required to maintain analog, there are a lot of places in rural Colorado where the only cell service available is 800 MHz analog. That is why I still carry a tri-band (with 800 analog) cell phone. I will often have service in remote areas where the fancy Blackberries, picture phones, etc. (virtually none of which have analog) won't. Both Verizon and Alltel still sell one or two models of phones with analog, but they aren't the fancy phones.

[bhcompy]

i had decent to poor reception with AT&T on i70 and in the eagle area but good to decent with my sprint internet card on my laptop.

most of the cities should be okay because of how small they are.. the real problems will be inbetween them