Free Coverage Maps (on your own)

[coffee addict]

Yep.

{{{sigh}}}

Colorado, 285 between Denver metro western limits and Fairplay - north, the whole way. . .

It's a GSM dead zone out here.

(quiet smile)

But, living @ 9,200ft in the Rocky Mountains, miles off the paved road, just having any cell service from any carrier even close to my front door is good enough.

It makes Verizon tolerable - as long as all I want to do is send and receive calls.

Thanks for the map!

[8624689]

I started with T Mobile for Christmas. I have a Motorola v360. I've had extremely poor reception ever since I got my phone. I never had the problems when I had my Motorola flip phone with Verizon that I have with my current Motorola. It's just getting so much worse that I can't even dial out, get "Call Failed" all the time the last 24 hours. Just spent 52 min today on phone with T Mobile service, through 3 people that I had to tell my problem to 3 separate times. I got friendly apologetic service over the phone, but bottom line, they plan to put no new service in the area that the map says is already serviced, and the phone help says it is my SIMM card, (my kids' phones seem to work all right in the immediate area) and the person at the T Mobile store told me, " I don't know why they told you that. It's usually the phone that's bad." Right now I have to wait even longer, for a new? phone while I pay $60 a month for a family plan, and I can't even get service to a tower to call 911, let alone keep in contact with my kids, which is the whole purpose of the phone in the first place! They're all words, but no substance. I already tried troubleshooting by registering with new network through settings, but it makes no difference. There is a T Mobile tower not even 15-20 min from my home acc to store person. Need info how to find out where T Mobile towers are. Anyone know? I don't know how much it costs T Mobile to rent/share towers with other carriers, but it seems that there are plenty of T Mobile customers that would be much happier, if T Mobile would get their business practices out of the dark ages and put their money where their mouth is. By the way what ARE they doing with the money we customers are paying them? don't seem to be putting it into renting towers, that's for sure. Thanks.

[4mula1]

One day awhile ago I checked Compass for coverage in my town, and the whole map for the area was different. What I did see is dark green coverage by my parents' house, which is virtually nothing currently. The dark green was centered on a nearby cell site. The next day Compass was back to normal, so what I think I did was catch T-Mo playing with the maps for new sites. A couple of weeks ago I emailed CC about coverage in that area and two days later I got the SMS from T-Mo that a system enhancement is planned for my area. Cool. I've been keeping an eye on that particular tower as well as a couple of others nearby to see when there is some construction activity.

So far this year I've seen three new T-Mo sites in northern Indiana filling in the dead spot between US30 and the toll road. Looks like it's only going to get better.

[Nwahs]

Hasen't shown anything but perfect results for me. 3 bars at my house, thats what it says. Same for work, school, and anywhere I have vacationed. They did a pretty good job with it

[neh2007]

Hi! I am new here! I was wondering if I am in the 2 bar area, do you think the phone will work in my house?

[mikethaler]

Hi! I am new here! I was wondering if I am in the 2 bar area, do you think the phone will work in my house?

Best that you try it for yourself in the exact location(s) you need service. It will also help, in general, if you post your city in your info line so it shows up when ever you post. By posting your location, you'll get more useful responses.
(This is done in the "User CP".

...mike

[bellaitaliano]

Best that you try it for yourself in the exact location(s) you need service. It will also help, in general, if you post your city in your info line so it shows up when ever you post. By posting your location, you'll get more useful responses.
(This is done in the "User CP".

...mike

well, i just did the map and i'm in a complete "gray" zone, so i'd get no coverage at all!! that sux because i was considering switching from cingular to t-mobile. i guess i'll be switching to alltel instead. cingular sux!!

[ab0rt]

Just hit "no" at the first page.

then arent you forwarded to the personal coverage check you can get to from the reg tmo page?

[gregsmith59]

then arent you forwarded to the personal coverage check you can get to from the reg tmo page?

No, the page is a little different. You can:
get bigger drawings
see new towers
scroll horizontally and vertically in two clicks instead of three

[zephxiii]

Nice, i have been watching a new tower being built (rather nice looking) for the past few months in my area and thanks to this site, i now know whose it is (T-mobile).

[Extraordinary]

Yeah, I must agree, these maps that T-Mobile has are usually a great indicator of what will work where.

Their coverage check says I should get 3 bars at my house, and might not be able to make calls in buildings, but I usually get 3 bars in my house.

Of course if I am downstairs or covering the antenna it might be 1 bar, but usually have no problems.

& WIFI calling FTW

[Barciur]

Does anyone know what this brownish colour means?

[gregsmith59]

Brown means a park. That's why it has the park names there.

[fl00d_pr0z]

Is this map any different from the "coverage map" they link to on their site ?

[gregsmith59]

Is this map any different from the "coverage map" they link to on their site ?

Compass has the same underlying data as the Coverage Viewer, with the addition of an indicator for new cell sites.

Both sets of maps were degraded heavily a couple weeks ago, and you can read that discussion here: http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1509394