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Using my Verzion Wireless Blackberry around the lodge, village and canyon rim area, good phone coverage with some drop outs as you get further away from the village area. From the Yavapai West Lodge 2nd floor, get up to 1,200 kbps data coverage using the Blackberry in tether mode. My last trip here during the summer of 2007, had no Verizon Wireless in the entire park.
Travelled from the outer edge of Flagstaff to Grand Canyon National Park and Reception was next to non-existent. I was travelling along Route 64 and there was no signal except for a few spots and it was only one bar if at all. This is not surprising as even Verizon doesn't work very well in these areas. So there may not be any choice for better coverage there. Throughout the entire Grand Canyon National Park AT&T did not work.
Coverage was spotty at the many overlooks but generally speaking I was able to make and receive calls with no issue. Note that I was Roaming and had no data coverage.
Frustrating... In a group of 4 of us, all with Verizon, I'm the only one that doesn't get reception at all. I tried my Motorola Q, and my Motorola V265. No service at all. 2 friends have LG phones that work fine and the other friend has a Razor that works fine.
Everyone in our large group, with a number of different phones, couldn't get any service at the Grand Canyon and around the hotels outside of the park. Most of us had Verizon as our carrier. We couldn't get reception until we were about a half an hour away from the park, then it was still only one bar. Forget placing a call anywhere north of Flagstaff.
Lots of A channel signal from Alltel, but the phone and / or the service (depending on how much credence should be given to the technician at the Verizon store in the Flagstaff Mall) is unable to roam off its native B channel to take advantage of it.
