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Judy! I have Verizon and if memory serves my coverage was ok. Now in some parts of Arizona I will have no service for maybe 100 miles between the Four Corners region to maybe Tuba city (U.S. 191 and U.S. 160) but you are also going through reservation land (Northeast part of the state). I believe you will be good with the cell, depending on your provider of course. Hopefully other people will weigh in their opinions here, can only speak for myself.
Yes, it's a ways between towns on I-25 but I've always have seen state troopers on the roads, it's not that desolate. You'll see a fair amount of truck traffic on I-10. Note: If you take 25 to Las Cruces and take I-10 west, a ways west of Cruces you'll run into a border patrol checkpoint. When I've gone through there it's not a problem at all, only takes a couple minutes. Now when I've gone NM 26, about 5 miles north of Deming I'll see the NM Port Of Entry people set up portable truck scales and there would be a small border patrol checkpoint there as well. Not a problem there either, in fact I remember visiting my best friend in Los Angeles back in 1991 and ran into that particular checkpoint on my way back home even back then.
On my few drives through the area, I think you're able to skip the checkpoints (could be worse but still annoying) both N/B N of Las Cruces and W/B W of Las Cruces if you take NM26.
Still, Las Cruces is worth visiting and having lunch. At least more so than Nutt.
A week ago Debbie and I went through the Border Patrol checkpoint on I-25 north near
T or C and went through in about 5 minutes. I've been caught up in checkpoints
several times and only once was there any real backup.
As long as you're on or close to a "Interstate corridor" you most likely have 100% cell-phone coverage...I-25 South from ABQ, I-10 East from Las Cruces, it doesn't matter. You've got it.
Coverage on Hwy 26 where it is furthest away from a freeway? I don't know, but you won't be on 26 that long anyway to cover 56 miles (if it's a decent speed limit) so I wouldn't worry.
What I was talking about re: no cell-phone coverage was when I travel in Eastern NM. I don't "cruise" Western NM really, meaning the "left" half of NM as divided by I-25 -- just the Eastern half. So my entering the no-cell-phone-coverage "dead zone" means leaving I-40 East and heading South on state roads to Roswell, NM. Now OUT THERE you're in the outback with spotty/no coverage whatsoever -- possibly due to alien spacecraft activity in the area (!) -- but not so on probably all Interstates in the US nowadays...note the cell-phone towers here and there along them.
I wouldn't be concerned...cell phone companies have the Interstates covered.
Just to be sure, however, go to YOUR carrier's website and look at their "coverage" map...find NM Hwy 26 and see if you've got it there.
Happy travelling...
Last edited by cloudcroft; 11-28-2010 at 06:49 PM..
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