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.

Verizon has recently tuned on a new cell site in Incline Village on Wilson Way – off Golfers Pass Road and Hwy 431. The monopine is located next to the Mountain Golf Course Club House.

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Thanks to Robert Rappaport, SierraTech, Incline Village, NV for the information and pictures.

It was recently confirmed that Edge Wireless, an AT&T affiliate, has co-located a cell-site near the intersection of Hwy 395 and Highway 70 north of Reno. This intersection is also referred to as Hallelujah Junction. Earlier this year antennas were co-located on an existing monopole that provides Verizon coverage in the area. This new Edge Wireless cell site provides AT&T customers roaming coverage in a previous dead zone around the area.

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The AT&T cell site across from the Grand Sierra Resort has been moved once again. Earlier this year the site was moved a few hundred yards west to make room for a new Wal-Mart that will be constructed on the site. In the past few days a new pole has been placed atop a billboard on the property next to Hwy395, and additional antennas have been installed vertically on the pole.

In the picture you can see the temporary and permanent antenna structures. The top of the temporary antennas are even with the bottom of the billboard, and just to the left of it – barely “seeing” above the freeway structure. The new, permanent pole extends above the top of the billboard. With the added height and additional antennas, this site should also increase coverage inside Renown Medical Center’s new expansion.

(Photo taken with Treo650).