Best GSM provider in CO

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Knowing where you live/travel to would be a great help in a recommendation.

 

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I have both and judging from where you go, T-Mobile is by far my 1st choice. Cingular has been sitting on their hands since the AT&T purchase, while T-Mobile has been adding sites like crazy...especially in Aurora. They have addressed the Aurora Planning Board that they desire to serve more customers at the neighborhood level.

In the mountains T-Mobile falls behind Cingular. But even then, outside the I-70/I-25 corridors, Cingular provides coverage only by roaming on Alltel. But all ski areas are covered by T-Mobile, as are most mountain towns. You would be advised to check their coverage map to be sure...it has street-level resolution.

I am amazed at how many dead spots Cingular still has in town, although they claim to be adding new sites...but I haven't seen one of them.

I would like to add, moving to GSM in Colorado is a step down in coverage compared to Verizon. Therefore, your choice involves how much, and where, you can accept less coverage.

 

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I did find one new Cingular site....its at Yosemite and Lincoln in Lone Tree. Its not even on Cingular's new coverage check.

 

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Try both and see which one you like.

 

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Like most people said take T-Mobile for 15 day trial and see if the network pleases you. Go to several spots and makes test calls. Use Verizon almost all other calls at this point. If you are happy with T-mobile where you are at then you can switch, if there is several spots where coverage is not that hot they you may want to stay with Verizon.

I have a cousin that lives in the Denver Metro. When she bought a mobile telephone she wanted to go Cricket, but got ended up with T-Mobile. A few places she went, she would get a weak signal. That was the end of 2004. Today the last time I talked to her (a few days after she got married), very few places were she goes around Denver and Ft. Collins area she gets a weak signal.

Hope this helps

 

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I've been happy with Cingular's coverage here, but the biggest negative right now is Cingulars delay on deploying 3g in Denver. Sprint and Verizon have had EVDO since last year. Cingular wont fess up to the real issue, but it appears to be related to their lack of spectrum in the PCS band which is currently only limited to 10mhz.

 

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Well, yes its the SAME company. It was just a name change. Sam people, same stupid (sorry, I just hate 'em) policies.

But... last time I was out in Colorado, when I still had at&t, was in March '07.

I was in Denver, which at&t is very choppy in the metro and near airport. When you get farther west out towards Boulder, the network gets better. You don't have the choppiness, and its very nice and clear - not as much as a landline, but its still good enough.

While near the park the coverage starts to weaken, due to the mountanous terrain. But yea, in Boulder it is good.

Now... when we went to Eldora Ski Area, I had '911 EMERGANCY ONLY' service; T-Mobile was there but didn't have a roaming agreement with Cingular.

After this we traveled west on i-70 (Denver to Dillon Valley -which highway is that?!?). While traveling we had service near Silver Plume, which is a small town about twenty miles from Denver. While we were literally next to that town we had 4/7 bars for about a half mile then it cut out - the town is of 100 people so go figure.

Then after this, we had no service until we got into the town of Dillon. In Dillon, the valley we had great service. In most ski areas the service was acceptable to say the most - in some areas it was not even available.

And we did NOT roam at all during the trip - which I wish we would have in a few spots to actually get service but o well... this is Cingular we are talking about.

'We are going to enforce a 40% roaming rule on all 63 million customers, but then not tell a single one of them when they are roaming (on their handsets)!'

 

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In Littleton and western Centennial I have good coverage. The audio quality is pretty good and isn't choppy.

The one place I've found that the audio does get choppy is at Coors Field.

 

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Since this thread was started, Cingular added several new cell sites in Colorado...where they have licenses.. This brings them up to where the other carriers were a few years ago. But that's a lot better than they were.

When your contract is over with Verizon, you might be happy with AT&T. They are, and probabably will be, a better carrier. However, all the others are improving as well, so it's a moving target. Sit back and enjoy the great coverage you have today.