CELL PHONE COVERAGE AREA?
I am noticing I no longer get cell phone coverage in areas I use to when camping. Also I get emergency calls only notice when I have several bars. Last weekend I had great coverage on arrival and ne...
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The analog AMPS network, which covered very large areas with very few connections (thus many dropped calls) has been shut down, as of late 2008, in case you haven't been there since then.
The 2G network (TDMA, or more properly, D-AMPS) is now being shut down, so what was there not too long ago may not be there today.
This leaves us with 3G voice technologies (GSM and CDMA) for supplemented with a collection of fourth generation technologies for data. What they have in common is that they provide many more connection opportunities in a smaller geographic area. Face it, 90% of the mobile telephone and wireless data customers live in 20% of the geographic area of the U.S. When you stray from that, you are disconnected.
Since 90% of the customers do not stray, they will tell you XXXX works everywhere in the country. Living in the wide open spaces, I will tell you that you take what you can get, huge parts of the geography are covered by no wireless telephone service.
The 2G network (TDMA, or more properly, D-AMPS) is now being shut down, so what was there not too long ago may not be there today.
This leaves us with 3G voice technologies (GSM and CDMA) for supplemented with a collection of fourth generation technologies for data. What they have in common is that they provide many more connection opportunities in a smaller geographic area. Face it, 90% of the mobile telephone and wireless data customers live in 20% of the geographic area of the U.S. When you stray from that, you are disconnected.
Since 90% of the customers do not stray, they will tell you XXXX works everywhere in the country. Living in the wide open spaces, I will tell you that you take what you can get, huge parts of the geography are covered by no wireless telephone service.
