Verizon Wireless improves service at many Colorado Ski Areas

[Andy]

Skiers Can Make More Calls in Colorado's High Country

Verizon Wireless adds new cell sites in Aspen, Loveland, Purgatory,
Steamboat Springs and Vail

DENVER, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Just in time for ski season, wireless
customers in Colorado will enjoy improved wireless coverage in several
highly traveled ski areas thanks to new Verizon Wireless cell sites. The
network enhancements will benefit users in:
-- Aspen - west end of town and Aspen Highlands

-- Loveland - between Monroe Avenue and 33rd Street; and northeast
Loveland

-- Purgatory - along Highway 550 north of Durango and south of Silverton;
and the Purgatory Ski Resort

-- Steamboat Springs - near Highway 40 and High Point Drive

-- Vail - mountain ski resort and surrounding facilities

"Verizon Wireless leads in customer loyalty* for a very good reason --
customers know they can count on our network reliability," said Jeff Mango,
regional president of Verizon Wireless. "We've invested more than $423
million in our wireless network in Colorado over the past four years to
stay ahead of the growth in demand for our products and services."
The company invested $30 billion in the last six years -- $5 billion on
average every year since the company was formed -- to increase the coverage
and capacity of its national network and to add new services.
The company's "most reliable network" claim is based on network studies
performed by the real-life test men and test women throughout the country
who inspire Verizon Wireless' national advertising. These engineers conduct
more than 750,000 voice call attempts and 1.4 million data tests quarterly
on Verizon Wireless' and other national carriers' networks while traveling
over 225,000 miles quarterly in specially equipped, company-owned test
vehicles.
* Loyalty claims based upon publicly available churn (customer
turnover) figures.
About Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless owns and operates the nation's most reliable wireless
network, serving 54.8 million voice and data customers. Headquartered in
Basking Ridge, N.J., Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon
Communications (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone (NYSE and LSE: VOD). Find more
information on the Web at http://www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and
request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of
Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia
Library at http://www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.

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[larry]

This will be a good one for Bill from mountain wireless to read.

[agentHibby]

Wonder when we will see the press release for Bair Lake and maybe Beaver Mountain resort

[WiggyFife]

I love talking on my celly whilst I'm skiing down the slopes!!! This is awesome!!!

Actually I wish I could ski!!!

[Andy]

Originally Posted by agentHibby

Wonder when we will see the press release for Bair Lake and maybe Beaver Mountain resort

Seriously...Sprint and Verizon are the only ones with no native coverage there...I guess at least Sprint roams on Cingular and Union Wireless.

[noahm]

Sprint and Verizon both work fine in most places up there by roaming off of an Alltel tower up north. The problem with verizon is that they have native signal somewhere and it tries to latch onto the useless signal. A sprint phone, seeing absolutely no native at all would just hop onto the alltell network or use the analog when its not avaliable.

P.S. I hope to start getting some tower pictures up from the ogden area, i noticed that most all of them are from down south.

[Andy]

Originally Posted by noahm

Sprint and Verizon both work fine in most places up there by roaming off of an Alltel tower up north. The problem with verizon is that they have native signal somewhere and it tries to latch onto the useless signal. A sprint phone, seeing absolutely no native at all would just hop onto the alltell network or use the analog when its not avaliable.

And is this experience all over Bear Lake or just a specific area? If you are getting an ALLTEL signal it is probably the former U.S. Cellular 1173 system in Idaho.

[BillRadio]

Originally Posted by larry

This will be a good one for Bill from mountain wireless to read.

Actually, it had me scratching my head why they installed new sites in those locations...service was already good in all of them. I'm thinking they might have added some sites in places where their V-CAST service won't work well from existing sites due to their 1900 MHz frequency, and 850 MHz voice service gets improved as well. There are plenty of high-rolling visitors using their phones & laptops in those resorts, so they could get lots of use.

Vail could use some better placement of Verizon sites. Sprint works there much better. But Vail is having free wi-fi installed in the whole city, so V-Cast might not need a big enough improvement, there.

[noahm]

Originally Posted by Andy84094

And is this experience all over Bear Lake or just a specific area? If you are getting an ALLTEL signal it is probably the former U.S. Cellular 1173 system in Idaho.

Ya, it was 1173. It was over most of the south western portion of the lake; I never went to the eastern side. The northern end should work fine with cdma as it is in idaho and i believe verizon and alltel have native signal there.

[Andy]

Originally Posted by noahm

Ya, it was 1173. It was over most of the south western portion of the lake; I never went to the eastern side. The northern end should work fine with cdma as it is in idaho and i believe verizon and alltel have native signal there.

Yes the north side should be fine like you said. Thanks for the information, it is very helpful. I will have to go up there sometime...maybe in the Spring.