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Absolutely no coverage after entering Hwy46 / Golden Gate Canyon Rd. Service comes back to life at the end of 46 where it intersects with 119 but service ONLY works if you stop off of the pulloff at the top. Service is spotty at best. I have had success pulling 1 bar of analog roam service in the Dory Lakes area; running a check on the SID (carrier ID#) shows a very peculiarly named provider that I've never heard of. Does anyone know if there is service besides satphone that works up here, or a way to make it work?

Outside, I'm bouncing off towers like a ping pong ball. Calls love to "skip" and sometimes drop. Inside, I'm lucky to get enough signal for 10 seconds for a text message to go through. Colorado Mills mall sucks too -- unless you're in front of one of the Cingular stores. Bums put mini towers up above the stores so that they can sell their crap service. You go 50 yards down the corridor from the store and get nothing. Golden tower coverage has sucked for pretty much every provider for the past 10 years, Sprint and T-Mobile are finally pulling their heads out of the sand and putting up towers... for now.

Reception dies on the 2nd mile up Golden Gate Canyon Rd. and continues to 119 and past the Dory Lakes housing areas. Sprint / Nextel, Cingular, and TMobile all produce similar results.

Don't count on cell service in Gilpin County, Colorado. Cingular / ATT is removing a tower during 2007 that serves digital / analog phones and the current digital towers don't reach most of the area. Cingular says there will be no replacement tower now or in the future. If you had service with ATT before it merged with Cingular, you are being charged about $5.00 more a month to cover the cost of removal of the very tower which has been providing your ability to currently use your service. Don't look to Qwest / Sprint / Verizon for service, it isn't there and they are sharing towers.

Nextel / Sprint has no reception in this area. We recently moved up here and had to shut our two phones down, paying one early termination contract fee of $200. Then on top of that, they are making us pay the full cost of the prior month, since we checked our voice mail one time when we had service in Denver. So we are going to pay the $200 fee, then have to pay for the whole month of December (even though we only used the phone once to check messages early in the billing period), so we'll owe them $320 in January for phones we haven't used in two months to get shut down. We have been Nextel customers for 4 years and I've always had problems with their customer support when I call. Do not become a Nextel / Sprint customer. Ever since Sprint bought Nextel, service has been bad all around. And way too expensive!

I used to get 3 bars in town, for the last week or so, I can only get 1-2 bars. When I plug into a omni-directional car antenna, I only get 4, but phone will not make calls. I used to get 5 and have perfect reception. I think there is a tower out. I used to be the only one in the house who could get reception in the basement, now I get no reception.

Calls drop both east and westbound between mile marker 250 and 254 on I-70 Also at Morrison exit 259

Verizon has not worked up there, ever. Funny thing though... . when I turn on the phone it registers with the network, gives 2 or 3 bars, displays the time. But can't make or receive a call to save it's life. Dead. My phone gets all that fancy video stuff with good quality. (in town) If it can do that why does it have the suckiest phone audio quality on the market???! Phone conversations are muddy, broken, distorted, and gurgly most of the time. Been that way with 2 different phones on Verizon service now. An expert in the field told me that Verizon turns the data rate way down to they can crowd more conversations in to a given bandwidth. Low data rate equals awful phone quality. I'll probably not renew. I'll go with the first company that gets service up the canyon.

I live up on the south shoulder of Coal Creek Canyon on Nadm Dr. The ONLY cell phone is my old TDMA AT&T Panasonic phone. My roomate got hoodwinked in to switching to Cingular's GSM network. DEAD, no service. Friends visiting with Sprint, Cingular, (GSM) Verizon, and T-Mobile have ZERO service. Seems stupid to call it an "upgrade" when the new phones don't even work where the "old" service did. Guess I'll stick with my TDMA until Cingular shuts it off in about a year.

In most areas of west Genesee there is no reception.