Which mountain has poor cellular coverage

[loafer89]

The Balsams has zero cell phone coverage

 

[billski]

Bump. Looking for an update and which areas/carriers are still having problems. Inquiring minds want to know....

check this out, if you can tolerate the ads:
http://www.cellreception.com/deadspots/vermont/page1.html

 

[andrec10]

Gore is still pretty bad even with Verizon. Belleayre is still the same with only service on parts of the upper mtn. Hunter used to be spotty before the 'TREE" sprouted near the top of the cliff, now its great!

 

[ski_resort_observer]

Not sure if it has been said, but my Verizon Wireless does not work at all at SB. :blink: Doesn't help for coordinating things or for people tracking me down. Truth be told sometimes I don't want to be tracked down :wink:

Not correct....the Bush had a COW(cell on wheels) put in by Verizon near the LP base last year. This was brokered by Win. So Verizon works just at the LP base area plus alittle ways down the access rd.

From a recent post by Win on skiMRV
"Let me chime in. In order to get Verizon here last winter we gave them a free site in our 22 acre lot to put up a temporary tower. Because of the location one can get good service in the Lincoln Peak area and parts of East Warren and East Waitsfield. I get very good bars at my house. Verizon is going to put in a permanent tower high up in Sugarbush Village, but they did not get this done this summer, so the same temporary tower is being used. I hope that when they get this tower in place, they will then put something up at Mt. Ellen. We are eager to help them. The best thing to do if you are a Verizon user is to call them and tell them you need service in the Valley or you are switching. We convinced them last year that the majority of our visitors use Verizon and are angered not to get service here and are thinking or switching to another service."

 

[Newpylong]

Oddly enough, AT&T works well in the Mad River Valley due to ex Unicell sites. They plan on bringing their 3G to a lot of Vermont towns by the end of the year (deadline is slipping away it would seem), how much that will help the ski areas away from population centers will have to be seen.

 

[Harvey]

Gore is still pretty bad even with Verizon

When my wife got pregnant we finally broke down and put in a landline. I was holding out for cell service. I hate the idea of a $50/month bill for 12 months, when we make very few calls and none in the summer.

On the mountain itself you can make a call (Verizon) from the warming hut on the summit. I also once accidentally left my phone on and "got a call" in the Tahawas glades. It surprised me as it's not an exposed area. Was very weird to hear a phone ring in there too.

One thing we learned...with one bar... you can't make a call, but you can get a send a txt.

 

[billski]

One thing we learned...with one bar... you can't make a call, but you can get a send a txt.

One thing I learned the hard way. If you're ever in an emergency (I hope not) and have zero bars/no service, dial 911 anyways. The phones move into super-power mode for 911 calls only. Often the calls get through.

 

[KingM]

What's surprising to me is just how bad US coverage is compared to other countries. I just got back from Peru and there were towns in the Andes and down in the Amazon where people had better cell phone coverage than in Vermont. This makes no sense to me.

 

[Paul]

What's surprising to me is just how bad US coverage is compared to other countries. I just got back from Peru and there were towns in the Andes and down in the Amazon where people had better cell phone coverage than in Vermont. This makes no sense to me.

NIMBYs are indigenous to the Northeastern United States. They are not typically found in South America.

 

[kcyanks1]

What's surprising to me is just how bad US coverage is compared to other countries. I just got back from Peru and there were towns in the Andes and down in the Amazon where people had better cell phone coverage than in Vermont. This makes no sense to me.

Not sure if this applies to where you were in Peru, but the general reason is that the US had much better coverage with landlines than other countries. So as cell phones become more popular, it was less important to get coverage in the US than in other places, where the cell phone may have become the only way to make a phone call. In the other places they were able to use cell phones as an alternative to laying lines everywhere. In the US, we already have the lines.

 

[drjeff]

Apparently per the Mount Snow passholders website, AT&T just went live with a new tower in the Mount Snow area and now has good 3G coverage in the general Mount Snow area.

Just waiting for the first gaper rescue to occur where they say that an app for the iPhone made them think they could find their way through the surrounding backcountry with just their pair of circa 1984 210cm K2 VO Slaloms and their Salomon Sx91 Equipe rear entry boots along with their CB coat and strecth pants :lol: