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AT&T GSM network what a joke! Just plain poor with no hope of getting better.

AT&T TDMA / AMPS provides very good coverage in this area including up the Cottenwood canyons and the ski resorts. The canyon reach may be due to AT&T phones ability to use the AMPS analog network which has greater range than the digital nets. However, AT&T TDMA / AMPS is being discontinued by 2006 and may degrade between now and then as Cingular converts the AT&T TDMA and AMPS 800 MHz to GSM 800. So TDMA customers accustomed to excellent coverage have to switch to something with inferor coverage. From what I read and hear, Verizon offers the next best coverage and theoretically does provide AMPS for rural area coverage.

Rotten reception; none indoors. As soon as you turn off of 9000, you're dead. Too bad, because everywhere else is great reception.

I have lived at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon my entire life and started using Verizon first. Verizon never had service anywhere from little cottonwood to big cottonwood on wasatch blvd. I switched to Sprint about three years ago and usually have at least three bars no matter where I go.

Terrible service in this area. Most calls drop or are garbled to the point of not being able to understand one another. Previous residents said they had no problem with Verizon here.

I usually get good reception. My phone only dropped calls maybe two or three times in the almost 2 years I've had it. When it dropped calls it is usually while driving 700E and 10600 S. Gateway, Crossroads, Downtown area seems to be fine. I don't go up the canyons very often, so I could not tell about coverage in those areas.

No reception in store and school which are all in this area. Outside reception is below average.

I've tried Sprint in Salt Lake and service was okay, but nothing too special. A few dead spots I found with Sprint in the Salt Lake Valley: Union Middle School (no service in most part of the school), Hillcrest High School(very weak), Gateway Mall (all or nearly all stores are dead), the ZCMI Center has lots of dead spots for Sprint, drving on 7th East from Fort Union towards 6600 South calls drop nearly every time right before you cross I-215, Big Cottonwood Canyon is totally dead right after you enter the canyon (Verizon's digital service reaches much further into the canyon), also in Millcreek Canyon Sprint service is gone right away while Verizon reaches in very far (and so does AT&T TDMA) and there are many more. Sprint coverage in the Salt Lake Valley is all right, they have a lot of room for improvement though! I'd recomend Verizon for Utah, Cricket, though, is also quite strong here in the Salt Lake Valley. I never had a network busy message when using Cricket. Only thing to be carefull of is that they do not work at the ski areas and don't even provide continous service along I-80 to Park City.

I have had T-Mobile for 3 years, and am going to sign in again for another 2 year contract. In this area, and while driving around Utah and Idaho (As I work ALL OVER) T-Mobile rarley lets me down. There are a few spots and times when I can't get good reception (Like in Sandy Costco, 1300 W 10000 S, 6200 S 700 E)), but 99% of the time, I'm good. My friend had Sprint and it was always dropping calls in the area, but not that bad, but my cell phone always won :)

Great reception for both voice and data in my home in Sandy and same goes for my work downtown. I work in an office building and often take calls in a conference room in the middle of the building with no windows. Never have a problem dropping calls with the exeption of when I am passing the point of the mountain going to / from Utah county. Other than that, no complaints about service!