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Inside get 0-2 bars, dropped calls, only works in part of apartment. Outside 4-5 bars, no problems.

Have little or no reception inside the home. Gets moderatly better when outside, but only on the side of the building the cell towr is on (and you can see the tower two miles away). Draps and 1 bar only anywhere within a mile west, north and south of home.

I live in Lowry and have the worst reception. Orig with AT&T GSM it was marginal at best and then when about two months ago it seems the Cingular switch happened. It went to worst case. Phone will not work consistently in and around house and will drop the call if you talk longer than 30 seconds if you can even understand the conversation. I will have to get VoIP if I plan to actually do any work from my home office. Also confirmed is that if you drive east on Alameda, once you past Quebec you will lose service, thats something you can guarantee will happen.

2-3 bars at best. Calls drop sometimes over about 70 feet south of the corner of Alameda and Quebec by the cemetery. I live just south of Bayaud on Syracuse and my reception disappears in my garage, my kitchen, and sometimes in my loft - I suspect the tower is resetting pretty often. I know of all the carriers that Nextel seems to be the only carrier that gets decent reception - they have a Nextel store over here on campus over at Town Center, and they own a lot of towers over off of Leetsdale and Monaco by the bowling alley. (A Denver PD communications supervisor says it sucks because their 800MHz radios go dead when they get a lot of Nextel calls in the neighborhood - Nextel uses the low 800MHz frequencies which are different than most everyone else which are about 850 MHz or higher.) I have had people tell me that Cingular gets next to nothing, Sprint PCS gets at best 'anywhere from the 'martini glass' to 3 bars', and T-Mobile gets 'nothing' from a customer who works over at the credit union. I have a cellularly monitored security system from ADT and my poor installer had to go two stories up into my attic in my townhome to get, at best, 84% signal strength. I suspect its a CDMA system, but don't quote me. I have been told by old AT&T customers, with old TDMA handsets, that they didn't have dropped calls over at the nasty drop out spot at Ala. and Quebec, but haven't any idea. (I still think they'd do well to do a 'fake tree' tower, a la Monument Hill, over at the cemetery - give the people buying plots over near it a cut on the real estate - and think of how much money they'd make! - Or why isn't Covad putting in some antennas on top of their building? Zoning? After all, their newest product focus is wi-fi mesh... ya'd think?!?) I used to get up to 5 bars in my old place over off of Bayaud and Fairmount, which dropped to at best 3 in the past 2 years. What happened? Grrrr... we finally got Vonage for the house and use it at home - saves minutes and occasional frustration - at least our Verizon phones work great when we go fishing in Granby... go figure)

Verizon is great elsewhere, but I've noticed that with 2 bars or less it's a total crap shoot in Park Hill. Even when I am outside it's not that great.

Not always the best reception, but the Analog network still works in the mountains where the Digital-only networks / phones fail.

Reception pretty much sucks out near the airport. I've noticed that sometimes I'll be on the phone and I can no longer hear the caller but the phone keeps ticking the time away when it should have just automatically dropped. If I try to hit end call it keeps going. Nice way to rack up the minutes. My el cheapo cricket had better service. I don't think I ever had to deal with dropped calls.

Zero reception in interior of building - 2-3 bars near outside of building. Always see people talking on cells in elevator and parking garage but I have zip for receptions, as do all the T-Mobile users in our office.

The GSM service is weak. I lose service in buildings on a regular basis. Spotty service in the mountains and rarely any service while skiing. Digital service is strong. I never had any problems. Worked in buildings, skiing, everwhere.

by phone is pretty much unusable at my house in SW Denver. Reception is decent other places, like downtown. it even works in the mnts better than it does in SW Denver. I have tried many different Sprint phones in SW Denver and none of them work well.