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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.

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.

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.

Droid X doesn't allow outgoing calls because of only having one or two bars--making it totally useless in my house. My old Verizon Krazor gets decent reception at my house, although it drops on occasion. I've had two others phones through Verizon here and only one of them was dependable. Unless Verizon Wireless puts another cell phone tower in the East Sandy area, I'm probably going to end up leaving them. Sorry, Verizon... I've loved your service, but I really need to be able to make calls from my house.

Quality with Verizon is unreliable in and around my neighborhood.

Cingular works really well when I am traveling on business to Southern California but doesn't work well in my home or on highland drive. Every time I drive by the Pinnacle appartments on 7600 S. Highland Dr.I drop the call. Every time without fail!

Very poor reception at my house. Drops calls frequently. Better when driving around my home area, few dropped calls, but quality is only fair.

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.

Poor reception. Signal drops from full bars to zero bars during a call. Sometimes fluctuates from Verizon to extended area. On average dropping each call 2-3 times in this area. The rest of the valley is nearly perfect. This one area is beyond horrible.

I get no signal in my home. I have to go outside and hope the call dosen't drop.