radioguy wrote:

When shopping for a new cell phne, I looked at the coverage maps of
the phones, both the old analog and the new digital GSM phones.
In both cases, there was veither very sparse coverage in the
mountains, and out in the west period, whether flatland or mountains,
or no coverage
at all in the mountains or out west period whether flatland or in the
mountains.

The Interstates are covered everywhere I've been except between El Paso
and Junction on I-10; and between Gallup and Holbrook on I-40.

Most of the places out West that aren't covered apparently have no people.