Cell Phone Coverage

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mete

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Latest news - cell phone coverage now available from the top of Mt Everest !!!!

Coverage still not available for many places in the Catskill Mtns - including my house !!
 
Who's your carrier?
 
It doesn't matter .There are many areas where no one can get a signal. I live in a radio [HAM and other radios] and cell phone 'hole' - mountains and rural so there are few repeaters.
 
mete said:
It doesn't matter .There are many areas where no one can get a signal. I live in a radio [HAM and other radios] and cell phone 'hole' - mountains and rural so there are few repeaters.
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I went to South Dakota last year on vacation and it is pretty much a black hole for AT&T service. Since AT&T covers 97% of Americans, I guess the other 3% live in SD and parts of Wyoming.
 
I took a 5 day vacation on a guest ranch in CO a little over two years ago. No cell phone signal without a 15 min drive. It was pretty nice! ;) Especially since I was in a fight with my girlfriend at the time and I had left her at home. No Wifi signal either. :p It was just my family and I and the trout. :)
 
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Our town has decent cell phone service... until you drive out of the city limits, then there's nothing.

Working in the gasfield in SE Colorado are hundreds and hundreds of workers... and no cell phone service in most of the entire area. Best bet, drive up top one of the ridges with a clear view to Trinidad. Even then you'd better have a booster installed in your truck.
 
That's just great. I can't get reliable service in my own house in Kentucky with Sprint, but they can get service on top of Mt. Everest. :rolleyes:
 
I'm an Iphone owner and (naturally) I'm stuck with AT&T as they have the exclusive service deal with Apple. One day at work I see this hispanic dude (a customer) typing away on what was unmistakably an Iphone 4. Not knowing that he didn't speak English, I asked him how he liked the "4". Mine is a 3G and I've been thinking of upgrading. In perfect broken English he replied (without hesitation) "phone sucks, everything else very good". In the ensuing conversation I found out that he didn't speak the language. Upon reflection, I howled with laughter. All I could think was this dude knows very little English but knows how to fluently cuss AT&T's crappy service. Loved it! Can't wait until Apple dumps AT&T. Man, I'm counting down the days! Covers 97 percent of Americans my BUTT! If you rammed a cell tower up your rectum you'd only get three bars of signal. AT&T is also the king of dropped calls. I signed a two year contract with AT&T and drove TWO CITY BLOCKS to a grocery store on the way home. No service in that store. It was a bad sign of things to come, for sure. :mad:

All of my Verizon buddies have signal wherever they go. I swear, they can wrap their Droids in tinfoil and get three bars of 3G signal in the basement of a steel building. Ergh!! :mad:
 
iPhones are the reason that AT&T service sucks. You should read about how much data the average iPhone user consumes and how many (tens of?) billions of dollars AT&T has had to pour into the network to try to keep up with demand. Now that they are on the verge of losing that exclusivity, I am betting they will never make that money back.

Apple won't let them do it, but AT&T really should charge more for more data. It makes no sense that someone who messes around on the Internet every now and then should pay the same amount for data that someone who streams Hulu 24/7 does. The only company I ever seen truly profiting from the iPhone is Apple.

Anyway, back on topic. You can get cell service from the tops of most mountains. Now if they can just figure out how to make the signals penetrate my brick house with old wiring without making us glow. :)
 
CombatGrappler said:
I went to South Dakota last year on vacation and it is pretty much a black hole for AT&T service. Since AT&T covers 97% of Americans, I guess the other 3% live in SD and parts of Wyoming.
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:D

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storl said:
iPhones are the reason that AT&T service sucks. You should read about how much data the average iPhone user consumes and how many (tens of?) billions of dollars AT&T has had to pour into the network to try to keep up with demand. Now that they are on the verge of losing that exclusivity, I am betting they will never make that money back.

Apple won't let them do it, but AT&T really should charge more for more data. It makes no sense that someone who messes around on the Internet every now and then should pay the same amount for data that someone who streams Hulu 24/7 does. The only company I ever seen truly profiting from the iPhone is Apple.

Anyway, back on topic. You can get cell service from the tops of most mountains. Now if they can just figure out how to make the signals penetrate my brick house with old wiring without making us glow. :)
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Actually, they no longer sell "all you can consume" data plans now- they have 2 levels. In terms of updating service, the US is still behind most places in terms of internet. Finally, ATT doesn't honor privacy- so whatever to them. Note: I'm an att customer.

Zero
 
Zero_Time said:
Actually, they no longer sell "all you can consume" data plans now- they have 2 levels. In terms of updating service, the US is still behind most places in terms of internet. Finally, ATT doesn't honor privacy- so whatever to them. Note: I'm an att customer.

Zero
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Good, took them long enough. I'm not saying AT&T is great, but all of the blame gets laid on them and never on Apple.

I agree about the US being behind everyone on Internet. Our laws are kind of messed up regarding infrastructure and we are so much more spread out than everyone else that it is hard to keep up with Korea, Japan, etc.
 
storl said:
Good, took them long enough. I'm not saying AT&T is great, but all of the blame gets laid on them and never on Apple.

I agree about the US being behind everyone on Internet. Our laws are kind of messed up regarding infrastructure and we are so much more spread out than everyone else that it is hard to keep up with Korea, Japan, etc.
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And we're catching up with China by potentially having the government filter what we can and can't access on the Internet. Google COICA and I'm sure something will come up.
I'll glady take our "primitive" Internet over a censored Internet where our content is ran through big brother.
We may be behind but at least we have free reign with the Internet. It could be like Iran where you're only allowed to view a very select list of content and any controversial content is deprived of you to restrict any opposition by it's citizens.
 
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