Coverage is more complete now, but if you're in the far north away from towns, or on the Newfoundland ferry or something like that, there are going to be gaps.

There are actually dead spots in many mid west and eastern states as well.

I live in Northwest Arkansas and work for a well known cell company. We have a lot of dead areas because,places where there are mountainous conditions can also impede cell signal or the placement of towers in certain areas.

Unfortunately we have not figured out how to make a cell signal bend.

And of course distance and wilderness conditions can also create large areas with no svc. such as Alaska and some of our western states.

Are you making a trip?? If you are I can probably advise you as to whether or not you might find signal.

A little off topic, but how are things in Northwest Arkansas? As a fellow NW Arkansan, your name particularly caught my attention, as it was the name of a popular drive-in in Rogers, as well as a motel across the street

Hell there are some in Pa and WV, I suspect Me and maybe NY as well.

Nobody is going to route power to a cell tower that will get no traffic.

the Catskills where no coverage is available. And I'm talking as recently as last month.

cell coverage, cable, or highspeed Internet access (unless she gets a special expensive satellite dish). It's kind of nice to turn off the world when I go up. On the other hand, for her it sucks ass.

It gets wild here pretty quick.

the coverage is basically only Fairbanks + Anchorage + the two freeways that connect them.
There are a few hot spots elsewhere...

GCI has coverage in western Alaska, or so they claim.

http://gci.cellmaps.com/viewer.html?iframe=true&width=951&height=580

When I was there back in about 2006.

try going through the Chattahoochee National Forest in Georgia sometime.

Because of the United States National Radio Quiet Zone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Quiet_Zone

Now I know why. Thanks.

We are North of Seattle and East of Vancouver. One can drive for tens of miles with no service.

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some media outlet that is just flat-out not true or profoundly absurd and nothing is done to challenge or correct such insanity, I ask myself the same question.

Indeed, I have little hope for the future of the United States of America. We are anything but united. We are so polarized by the raw hatred (after all, that's what it comes down to at its very base) of the very idea of America by the right-wing mindset in this country (while crowing about how patriotic) that I can't see how we ever resolve it.

Edited: And then something comes right along to prove my point:

Fox News' Megan Kelly: "Declaring Something An Act Of Terror Does Not Necessarily Mean You Are Declaring It A Terror Attack"

http://mediamatters.org/video/2012/10/18/foxs-kelly-declaring-something-an-act-of-terror/190741

There were 100 miles or so along the Cassiar Highway that lacked service and some isolated spots that lacked service, but it's remarkable that I was rarely without cell service.

It's funny that there are these 2 little towns (Stewart, BC and Hyder, AK) which don't have *any* cell phone service (and it's quite a haul to get to them since they are behind mountains). Apparently when approached by wireless companies the towns turned them down so they lack a cell phone tower and any service.

Kind of interesting to be in a town without phone service --and barely usable internet. But it is an interesting place (and they film lots of movies there, FWIW).

I took the ferry through various passages in Alaska (even ones off the main cruise ship routes) and had cell and data service nearly the entire time. Alaska is surprising in that it's remote areas have a ton of coverage, I'd say more coverage than remote areas of Nevada.

in Canada, certainly. There are vast, vast tracts of prairies in Canada that are extremely sparsely populated and i would highly doubt have coverage. Once you head north of Southern Ontario you're rolling the dice whether youre covered, north of Sudbury not a chance. And there is a LOT of Ontario north of Sudbury.

yet in my little village in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom.

My best friend just called me from the North Slope on his cell phone. I was really surprised they had cell coverage there. In Kodiak we would have coverage over here and 5 paces over there you were out of luck.

All Republicans self deport!

And that includes a few very small towns and villages.

The area was rural enough up there that I had no coverage. So it's not just completely isolated wilderness areas.