Denver area cell phone carriers

[babarsac]

So with all the good deals out there among cell phone carriers right now my wife and I are thinking of switching. Right now we have AT&T and since moving here we've noticed that service and call quality can be sorta spoty. I'm looking at either Sprint or T-Mobile since we both have GSM phones we can take with us (Verizon is out).

Curious what you all are using and what your experiences are.

[Punkface]

My experience is that AT&T has better coverage than T-Mobile in the Denver area.

I'm using Google Fi which runs on T-Mobile and Sprint towers and I've had pretty decent coverage anywhere I go as well.

[Monky]

ATT is better than verizon.. My neighborhood is a god damn dead spot with Verizon.. it didn't use to be that way, but just like the state of colorado.. all infrastructure here sucks ass

[ray1970]

I have Sprint. It's horrible. I've had much better luck with Verizon. No experience with other carriers.

[roberth]

I went with Cricket which uses the ATT network.

Coverage is also dependent on the quality of antennae in the phone so if a person is a cheapskate they can't expect good service from any provider. I owned RAZR phones that worked in the elevators at my job site, from the basement to the top floor I could hold a call. When I went to a less expensive phone I lost that call connection quality.

ATT has been the best for me for over 10 years and I travel all over the front range and in the mountains, there are a few remote places I can't get ATT but no one gets any service back there. I know alot of people on Verizon and they complain all the time. Sprint and T-Mobile can't even to begin to compete with ATT or Verizon, they are just awful.

I currently own a Samsung S7 and it has been terrific but i haven't done an elevator test with it, based on the call connection quality (80%) in my office in the basement this phone will fail the elevator test. Those RAZR phones worked everywhere though, 100% in the basement where I work.

[kidicarus13]

Had Verizon for 12+ years and totally happy with them but they increased their prices too much, so switched to T-Mobile. T-Mobile reception sucks, many dropped calls. Currently with Sprint and happy with them so far.

[00tec]

I think the reason you hear Verizon customers complaining is that the service has degraded so much over the last few years. I used to be able to get decent 4g at a friend's house. Hotspot would regularly test at 15mbps or so, even way out in the middle of nowhere. Now I can barely get 3g at times. I cant get a good quality call theough at my house without wifi calling.
Certain areas of town, it's great, but many areas have dropped off significantly.

[roberth]

Only a little OT.

How have onerous government regulations impacted cell service, does anyone think that obamacare hasn't resulted in companies diverting money from infrastructure upgrades into ever increasing costs mandated by the government? I don't know if an environmental impact statement has to be filed every time a mobile provider wants to put up a new joint tower or modify an existing one, if so than that is just another government intrusion into our lives that results in something negative.

Money grows on trees for only one entity and that is the federal government, as bad as some people make corporate America out to be the government has everyone beaten by a very wide margin.

[Big E3]

I have Verizon and T-Mobile, both have dead spots. Usually can get one or the other to work. No Verizon at my house, no T-Mobile in parts of Cherry Hills Village. Good Luck!!!

[Madeinhb]

I had Verizon. No coverage at the new house. Switched to T-mobile and no issues at my house. Around Denver Metro area - I have the same coverage as Verizon. Had dead spots with both.