After years of complaints and waiting, AT&T has finally improved coverage in the Damonte Ranch and Zolezzi Lane areas with a new cell site which is co-located on an existing tower behind the Wal-Mart on Damonte Ranch Parkway. CID 6296x.

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A new T-Mobile cell site is now active in NW Reno near Robb & Mae Anne Avenue. The new site should fill-in some coverage in the canyons in the area that the cell site at Robb & Sharlands doesn’t serve adequately. CID 1325x.

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As reported a few weeks ago, phones on the AT&T network in the Reno area are now showing 3G data coverage.

AT&T has now posted PDF maps showing 3G coverage in the Reno/Tahoe/Carson City areas.

Reno/Sparks map

Reno/Tahoe region map

Carson City/Carson Valley/Dayton map

3G coverage is now shown as an overlay on top of their regular coverage map.

Thanks to a website contributor for pointing out a new Sprint cell site at the Heavenly Ski Resort California Base Lodge.

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In the past few days we’ve had reports of AT&T 3G capable phones showing the “3G” icon, instead of the “E” (Edge) icon throughout the Reno area. AT&T advertises average data speeds of 400-700 Kbps on their 3G, HSDPA network.

When AT&T officially launches 3G wireless service in the Reno area, they will join Sprint, Verizon and Clearwire who already offer 3G wireless broadband speeds in the Reno area.

After many coverage complaints and delays, AT&T is finally set to improve coverage in the Damonte Ranch and Zolezzi Lane area. Antennas for an AT&T cell site were approved last week which are to be located on the existing 80-foot monopole behind Wal-Mart on Damonte Ranch Parkway.

The location currently has antennas for Cricket, Clearwire and Sprint PCS.

A new Nextel cell site located next to the power substation above Village Green Parkway and Pinebluff Trail was recently constructed and place in-service. The cell site provides improved coverage in the upper Caughlin Ranch Parkway area and northwest Reno.

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Thanks to 2 dogs who like to go for walks for the pictures.

“…Verizon Wireless customers in more Nevada locations can now get e-mail, real-time corporate data, access to the Internet and much more at faster speeds. As the company rolls out its high-speed broadband network today, coverage now extends to:

• Elko, Ely, Hawthorne, and Reno – including Interstate 80 and Highway 50 between Reno and Sacramento, as well as the area surrounding Lake Tahoe.

Based on CDMA 1x Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) Revision A (Rev. A) technology, the expanded wireless broadband network provides Verizon Wireless customers with data uplink speeds significantly faster than the company’s award-winning national EV-DO network, which the company first launched in northern Nevada in December, 2006…”

Read the full Verizon Wireless Press Release

A new Sprint/Nextel cell site in Virginia City was confirmed last weekend. The antennas are disguised in a gray monopole/flag pole on the south end of the city near Gold Hill.

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Original post 8/2/07 - Updated 9/3/07

I just noticed a recently installed Sprint cell site above McCarran & Skyline in west Reno. This cell site fills a previous dead zone along the busy McCarran Blvd. corridor between Cashill Blvd. and Manzanita Lane.

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Thanks to a contributor for the pictures.