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disappearing signal?
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| Would anyone know - don't try to ask Cingular!!!! - why, fairly suddenly,
the Cingular signal in a certain location would deteriorate? I would assume,
for one reason or the other, a nearby tower has "gone off line," but is
there anyway to ascertain this?
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| Chuck 2007-05-10, 12:33 pm |
| Yes, there may be a way.
IF your phone has a "field service" mode,
it can show what cells (number) are active, and signal strength
My old nokia will show which one you are connected to.
Hopefully someone familiar with your phone make/model can tell you haoe to
access and use this type of feature.
"DP" <ussr@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Would anyone know - don't try to ask Cingular!!!! - why, fairly suddenly,
> the Cingular signal in a certain location would deteriorate? I would
assume,
> for one reason or the other, a nearby tower has "gone off line," but is
> there anyway to ascertain this?
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| DP wrote:
> Would anyone know - don't try to ask Cingular!!!! - why, fairly suddenly,
> the Cingular signal in a certain location would deteriorate? I would assume,
> for one reason or the other, a nearby tower has "gone off line," but is
> there anyway to ascertain this?
Carriers sometimes change the orientation of their antennas to improve
the signal for one area served by the tower, at the expense of another.
I have some friends near Chabot college in Hayward where they had great
Verizon coverage, five bars, until Verizon made some changes, and now
they have two bars inside the house. Verizon admitted what they did, but
they did it to serve the most possible users.
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| Interesting, thanks. I doubt I'd ever find anyone at Cingular who would
know, much less confirm this.
"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
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> DP wrote:
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> Carriers sometimes change the orientation of their antennas to improve the
> signal for one area served by the tower, at the expense of another. I have
> some friends near Chabot college in Hayward where they had great Verizon
> coverage, five bars, until Verizon made some changes, and now they have
> two bars inside the house. Verizon admitted what they did, but they did it
> to serve the most possible users.
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