Cell Phone No Service
KGSMITH
no service come up all the time so I started trying the different cellular phone
companies. These were my results:
At&t digital I had some service at my house in Mosier but generally
no service.
AT&T GSM No service all the time at my house. In Hood River it would
drop me some times. By far the worst...
US Cellular No service
Sprint Good service in Mosier and Hood River. By far the Best.
I hope this helps anyone looking for cell phone in Oregon's Mid Columbia Area.
John Navas
In <3f8cfadd.04081...@posting.google.com> on 16 Aug 2004 16:56:04
-0700, KGSMI...@YAHOO.COM (KGSMITH) wrote:
>I hope this helps anyone looking for cell phone in Oregon's Mid Columbia Area.
Next time please use a more meaningful subject so the rest of us don't waste
time reading it. Thanks.
--
Best regards,
John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/>
Halogen8
give me exact coverage details along with GPS coordinates. It was implied
that his service level was only for the places he visited.
While the information is not complete, it is still beneficial to someone who
lives there or thinking of traveling there. Heck, it might even help
improve coverage if ATTWS is reading this group.
"Joseph" <JoeOfS...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:15o2i0p33iav1p6gc...@4ax.com...
> Unless you have tried all these services all over Mosier and Hood
> River your findings won't mean much. Wireless reception is totally
> dependent on distance from base stations as well as topography and
> other conditions. You cannot make an absolute statement that service
> with X, Y or Z is bad or good. It may be good or bad for you in the
> locations you've tried it out, but it doesn't mean that it won't work
> for someone else in a different location with different circumstances.
>
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John Navas
In <TQfUc.9860$yh.6431@fed1read05> on Mon, 16 Aug 2004 21:29:53 -0700,
"Halogen8" <lag...@googles.email.service.com> wrote:
>While the information is not complete, it is still beneficial to someone who
>lives there or thinking of traveling there. Heck, it might even help
>improve coverage if ATTWS is reading this group.
I think that unlikely. :)
In general, carriers are quite knowledgeable about their own coverage
problems, not only from data gathered from their own towers (capacity
utilization, call signal strength, etc.), but also from periodic mobile
testing of signal strength (of all carriers), and also from subscriber
complaints (which, in the aggregate, do make a difference).
Often the limitation on providing better coverage in a given area is the
difficulty of siting towers, thanks to obstacles thrown up by local
governments (NIMBY).
Chuck
wrote:
>On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 21:29:53 -0700, "Halogen8"
><lag...@googles.email.service.com> wrote:
>
>>While the information is not complete, it is still beneficial to someone who
>>lives there or thinking of traveling there. Heck, it might even help
>>improve coverage if ATTWS is reading this group.
>
>If it only applies to areas he has gone to it only helps people if
>they are going to the exact same areas that he reported. Again his
>"study" is flawed if he makes a statement that the reception
>conditions which he recorded are representative of all areas in the
>towns he mentions. It also may make a difference if the towns are
>even officially served by a service. Marginal service may be received
>in a town, but that town may not even be served by that carrier.
>
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Well, at least his post provides some benefit. On the other hand
you're just flapping your gums.
Kevin Gray
Your information is quite appreciated. I live in the Portland area
and am also having problems with the AT&T GSM service. It seems if
you get off the I-5 corridor it drops signal real quick. What others
may not know is that the area you mention (Mosier, Hood River) are
towns in the Columbia River Gorge just off of I-84. In such areas
having reliable phone service is crucial. So once again thank you for
your information.
Tgger
John Navas
In <s6h7j0h3p66v7njq2...@4ax.com> on Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:29:24
-0700, Kevin Gray <kevin.gr...@verizon.netnospam> wrote:
>... (Mosier, Hood River) are
>towns in the Columbia River Gorge just off of I-84. In such areas
>having reliable phone service is crucial. ...
If it really is "crucial" then I suggest you look into satellite service
(e.g., Iridium), because all terrestrial mobile phone carriers have coverage
gaps, although satellite phones don't work indoors. So no matter what we
choose, we wind up muddling through. ;-)
Eric Rosenberry
"Kevin Gray" <kevin.gr...@verizon.netnospam> wrote in message
news:s6h7j0h3p66v7njq2...@4ax.com...
> On 16 Aug 2004 16:56:04 -0700, KGSMI...@YAHOO.COM (KGSMITH) wrote:
>
>>I work in Hood River, Oregon and live in Mosier,Oregon. I was tired of
>>having
>>no service come up all the time so I started trying the different cellular
>>phone
>>companies. These were my results:
Are you *SURE* USCellular does not have service there? I have Verizon
service and when I travel up the gorge from Portland I roam on USCellular's
system under Verizon's Extended Network agreemnt... Granted some of it is
analog coverage but most of it is digital.
In that area considering it is fairly rural and the terrain is challenging I
would guess one of the two 800mhz carriers would be the best. In this case
the 800mhz carriers are USCellular and ATT.
800mhz cellular license maps here:
http://people.ku.edu/~cinema/wireless/northwest.html
-Eric