I have been here in Santa Fe 6 months. T-Mobile has great reception. It works in the town and on the interstate just fine. It loses reception in the mountains but thats to be expected. It also works well in the suburbs like Eldorado. T-Mobile also combines service with USA Connect

I find excellent service in and around Santa Fe, even up in Ski Santa Fe. Have used this phone for three years, including trips throughout New Mexico, and in every state in the West and Northwest. There are blank areas in really low populated sections of NM and elsewhere, but overall I have had great service with T-Mobile. In addition, nobody matches them for so many minutes for such low rates. Customer service has been responsive. I called them regarding a weak signal at my home near St. Michael's High School during a few days in early December. It was corrected within two days and the full bar display was back and functioning. If I ever were to change providers I would only consider Cingular since they also use the SIM memory card. I guess I've been lucky but I do feel someone should give T-Mobile a big hooray!

picks up good all around town. Alltel has 3 Towers in the santa fe area wile Verizon only has 1 locatel on the north end of santa fe. Alltel also has 1 at the north end of town but Alltel also has 1 downtown by the santa fe newmexican, The there biggest tower in at airport Rd and Cerillos Rd accross From the mall.

I have full bars in the city of Santa Fe ALL the time. I have had coverage in remote wooded / mountain areas like Bandelier and the Santa Fe Ski basin I have coverage in rural areas like Cerrillos, New Mexico, although maybe 2-3 bars in that situation. Everyone once in a blue moon I may lose a call but I feel that it because the parties I am calling are in the U.S. Virgin Islands and the problem is on their end, and not mine. I have no idea whether its the phone or the provider, but this is incredible service.

i have been to santa fe and in most places I get 4 to 5 bars I live 8 miles north of rowe. Alltel is one of the only cell providers that pick up in mora because I used to have Verizon and along the high ways it would cut off a lot and in mora it would not work at all. with Alltel it works in raton 4 to 5 bars and in alburqurque I get full service. I also get service in penia blanca and cochiti, las vegas, nm, espanola, taos, pecos, rowe,illfield, and more and in all of those I rarly get one bar

Calls are frequently dropped and often are treated as roaming even though I am close to I-40 / 98th. No choice but to find new provider. Change the cellular model from evo to photon is the best thing that has happened. 5 bars

I consistently get 4-5 bars in the city of Santa Fe and I get reliable 3G Sprint service.

As the commented below me also notes, right now (Monday Nov. 15 2010) I am receiving a 4 1 / 2 bar 3G signal at the intersection of St. mikes and pacheco St.

Verizon works in El Rancho and along the 285 corridor pretty well. I do occasionally have a dropped call at home or near the opera house, but over all, it is pretty good.

I get Verizon very well all over the Santa Fe to Los Alamos corridor, except for a couple holes in Pojaque and near the Opera.

I have never had a problem with my service. I travel around the state regularly. Good service.

I have been with Alltel for more then 2 years now and I have had great coverage in pecos, las vegas, santa fe, albuquerque etc. I havent really had any trouble with then, but I have noticed that pre paid service does not work very well so I stick to the monthly pay plan. DO NOT GET THE PRE PAID PLAN, it suck on coverage wise

After trying 3 other cell providers, Sprint was the only one that worked from our house. The signal disappears at certain known points along our home street and along the road to Los Alamos but works well between our home and Albuquerque. There has been a worrysome increase in the number of places where we previously got good Sprint reception that now only have service via the dreaded "Digital Roam". Most visitors with other providers do not get any service at our home. Nextel (a Sprint affiliate) seems to be the only other provider to work at our home.

AT&T held a town hall style gathering in Santa Fe last evening. The result is that we will not see 3G service until some time in early 2011 (meaning maybe by December 2011) and they will not commit to installing new transmitters to cover the huge gap in coverage until 2012.

AT&T is really awful. I am putting my iPhone on ebay cancelling contract and moving onto Sprint or Verizon. The data is as slow as an old fashioned dialup connection, and normally does not work at all during busy times of the day. I called AT&T and they have no plans to update Santa Fe to 3G per their rep today (2 / 7 / 2010). Voice quality is terrible around Cordova and Old SF Trail, a major intersection!. Verizon cut right to the heart of AT&T with their ads. Unfortunately they are evil twins birthed from the same parents so I am not sure VZ would be an improvement

Reception changes at different times of the day.

Generally we have good reception, however it can be weak and spotty. Nationwide there is few dead areas all the way from Santa Fe through the midwest. One big problem, Qwest sold out to Verizon which has very poor reception in the Santa Fe area including our home area just outside of the city limits. Also, we pay the same price for less minutes. Can you say price increase!

I've not experienced dropped calls anywhere in Santa Fe.

Years ago I switched from Verizon to T-Mobil because of all the dropped calls; delayed voicemails, and terrible customer service. My T-Mobil reception is generally good to fair in town, even in the neighborhood where I'm located, except for the street I'm on apparently, because even when I'm outside the house, I only get 2 bars. Inside, I get 1 bar; 2 if I'm lucky. Never had anything higher except when on analog yrs ago. I'm nervous about the upcoming possible / likely merger with AT and T since that company has such bad service here! I put 87507 as my zip (since it is), but this form says it's not valid, so I'm trying a different one..

I just called the AT&T office for (yet another) update on 3g implementation in Santa Fe. As before, they are saying within the next 6 months (before the end of the year) there will be "significant upgrades in the Santa Fe network coverage including 3g service." This is the story I heard when I bought my iPhone nearly 2 years ago and the same story when I called them about a year ago. I'm officially giving up on AT&T. As other users have mentioned, coverage in the area is spotty and the Edge network is painfully slow. This coupled with the fact that AT&T is metering data usage now (the tiered data plans), yet is charging $20 / month for tethering means I'll be ditching my beloved iPhone for a Droid. Oh well. Thanks for nothing AT&T.