We frequent the area of Heron Lake State park in northern NM. For the past 3+ years we have had good coverage for our Verizon phones (both personal and business). We had good coverage still on the weekend of 21-23 June. When we returned over the Independence Day Holiday we had zilch, nada, nothing. Closer to Chama we could receive 1X coverage but at low signal strength that would not reliably support understandable voice conversations. Rumor on the street was that there was some tiff between AT&T and Verizon with a lease arrangement for a cell or cells (presumably more than just one given the extent of the area of coverage lost.) We were left in quite a lurch. In this day of "We have the best coverage" wars between cell phone companies, it is utterly surprising to me that Verizon would (if it is true) succumb to pressures that would effectively reduce their coverage area. I would like to know what the recovery plan and timeline is. Should there be none or it take too long, we (and all of our extended family) will likely resort to switching to AT&T. We have been with Verizon for nearly 20 years (since we got our first cell phone) and tend to be quite loyal, but loyalty must go both ways and I am not feeling it in return. By the way, seemingly when Verizon instituted 4G coverage in Albuquerque where we live, our coverage at our house went bad, too. Dropped calls, no connects, etc. have become the norm and to my knowledge Verizon never made one attempt to diagnose the fluctuating signal strength in our neighborhood. Perhaps AT&T would work better at our Albuquerque location as well!
