T-Mobile Service in Denver and Ft. Collins Report

That's awesome LOL

 

Yes, T-Mobile has done a remarkable job and has achieved a good solid #2 position in the Denver market, challenging one of the Cellular carriers in urban coverage. As you found, even a little off the main road, T-Mobile's coverage goes that 'extra mile'. This occurs in many spots where other carriers stop their coverage, but T-Mobile goes just a little farther. And that just happens to be where we're going.

Your T-Mobile phone should have also worked on Loveland Pass, or a least within a few hundred feet of it.

It too bad we don't share schedules and phone numbers for a cup of coffee. I used to meet friends passing through the airport until 9-11 prevented unticketed persons from accessing the concourses.

 

When Denver service comparisons last came up, you mentioned that Sprint was a #2 to VZW, mostly because ATTWS has bungled their GSM conversion so badly. If T-Mobile is now #2, is it due to service improvements on their end, or a decline in service on the Sprint side?

Sprint is holding up pretty well here in the Puget Sound area; I think they're about even with VZW.

 

Sprint is now converting Qwest sites in Denver to Sprint sites so Sprint should get a boost in signal and (depending on how many sites they get) should be at or near the top of the list.

 

Good question. I was careful to say that T-Mobile excels at urban coverage. They have more sites in all the right places. Where Sprint shines is that when you leave the urban or suburban areas, you have excellent roaming service that gives you service far beyond what is available from T-Mobile.

In watching the detailed Sprint cell site maps, I see them actually adding many more sites in other parts of the country (lucky Larry!). In the Rocky Mountain states, Sprint added very few of the sites shown as "future" (maybe because of Qwest?). But in other areas, CA, AZ, TX, OH, and some others, I see many new actual sites. In that aspect Sprint can be thought of as 'declining' here, by not moving forward as fast as others. But they're still way ahead, not only due to roaming capabilities, but also in those selected towns where they have sites and others (even Verizon) don't.

Attention Locals: T-Mobile is tied for best service along Highway 285 through Bailey! Except for Verizon, all others hit a brick wall long before that.

 

Off topic but Sprint is also adding new coverage along I-10 and I-40 between AZ and New Mexico. These stretches of Hwy were tradionally only covered by the older cellular carriers and even then not perfect all the way. I noticed Sprint finally added Winslow, AZ to their list of covered cities on the web site.

 

And with good reason -- T-Mobile doesn't have other carriers to fall back onto.

I've seen the same with Nextel, but not quite to the same extent as T-Mobile. SPCS, AT&T, etc. tend to rely on other carriers a lot more, if only because they can.

-SC

 

I have a friend with T-Moblie in Colorado Springs and their service there is great according to her. I was using a CellularONE TDMA handset when I was in Denver/Colorado Springs and was roaming on AT&T TDMA/Analog and had great signal the whole time I was there, everywhere I went for 11 days. A friend of mine has Verizon in Denver and it didn't work so well for him, that may be because he has a Motorola 120 with a broken antenna, I don't know. My bet would be T-Mobile or CingulAT&T for that area of Colorado.