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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Cingular / September 2005signal strength
what phone in people's opinion pulls in the best signal? My wife has a razr and is not liking it too much, many places she goes into she loses signal or has very little where as before we always had signal there with our other carrier. Any suggestions? Capt. >what phone in people's opinion pulls in the best signal? My wife has a razr >and is not liking it too much, many places she goes into she loses signal or >has very little where as before we always had signal there with our other >carrier. Any suggestions? The RAZR is a very good phone -- a different phone won't help. Call Cingular Tech Support (not just Customer Care); find out which network the phone is "homed" on (blue or orange); and ask to be "homed" on the other network.  SignatureBest regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES: John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular> > [POSTED TO alt.cellular.cingular - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE] > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > other > network. I agree with this guy. It's probably not the phone. The RAZR is probably one of the best reception phones around. Also, where are you located? That could make a difference. In this case it is the carrier and not the phone. Changing phones will not do any good. Change back to the carrier that worked well for you. > what phone in people's opinion pulls in the best signal? My wife has a > razr and is not liking it too much, many places she goes into she loses > signal or has very little where as before we always had signal there with > our other carrier. Any suggestions? > > Capt. It could be the phone if it's Homed on the wrong network. >In this case it is the carrier and not the phone. Changing phones will not >do any good. Change back to the carrier that worked well for you. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >> >> Capt. SignatureBest regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES: John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular> > In this case it is the carrier and not the phone. Changing phones will not > do any good. I disagree. It's always worth a try to use a different phone, preferably a newer one. This is easy to do on Cingular considering that all one needs to do is swap SIMs. As cell phone designs evolve, so do the efficiencies seen in the RF section. As a result, an older phone will often perform less effificently than a newer model. Alternately, if the person doesn't have a 64k SIM, they might see a benefit if they switch to one. Change back to the carrier that worked well for you. >>what phone in people's opinion pulls in the best signal? My wife has a >>razr and is not liking it too much, many places she goes into she loses >>signal or has very little where as before we always had signal there with >>our other carrier. Any suggestions? >> >>Capt. SignatureE-mail fudged to thwart spammers. Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply. Hi Isiah, Technically you response if correct, however I have a little different take on this situation. Last January, I experienced a problem when I upgraded from a Motorola to an LG phone on Verizon. The Motorola worked great at my home because of its superior RF performance. With the LG phone I experienced dropped calls and the phone would flop back and forth on pn offsets. It was really bad news! Three of my friends have Verizon phones and they experienced the same problems at my home with different brands of phones. The only phone that worked well at my home is Motorola. I wanted to be able to use any phone and not have to worry about finding a phone with superior RF performance or being locked into Motorola phones forever. The problem was basically that the Verizon signal was inadequate so I decided to explore other services and found that Sprint had a cell site not to far from my home. I switched to Sprint and now I have good signal and can use any phone that Sprint sells. Therefore, my advice is to improve the quality of the signal so that you are not forever locked into purchasing phones that have superior RF performance. It can be a real pain in the ***! If the original poster is within a two week contract, he/she should return the phone and go back to the previous cell phone carrier that provided adequate signal. Regards, -mij >> In this case it is the carrier and not the phone. Changing phones will >> not do any good. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >>> >>>Capt. > Hi Isiah, > > Technically you response if correct, however I have a little different take > on this situation. Last January, I experienced a problem when I upgraded > from a Motorola to an LG phone on Verizon. First off, you're comparing Verizon, a CDMA network, to Cingular, a GSM network. While they share some things in common, the two signalling formats operate differently enough that they have significant differences in how they behave, INCLUDING how they behave in fringe areas. > The Motorola worked great at my > home because of its superior RF performance. With the LG phone I experienced > dropped calls and the phone would flop back and forth on pn offsets. It was > really bad news! The other problem is that you're comparing Motorola to LG. While Motorola has had its share of duds, most of its handsets perform excellently at best, and decently at worst. LG phones however, always seem to perform poorly, even in excellent signal areas. But there are always people who want a cheap phone, and so as long as there is a demand for poorly built cheap phones, LG will stay in the handset business. > Therefore, my advice is to improve the quality of the > signal so that you are not forever locked into purchasing phones that have > superior RF performance. Once again Mij, you are taking your situation and applying it to everyone else. Not everyone lives where you do, and not everyone is under the same network coverage and conditions. And you're oversimplifying the matter. Have you ever tried to get a zoning variance for a cell site in a residential neighborhood? It's not like you can just stick these things wherever you'd like them. SignatureE-mail fudged to thwart spammers. Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply. >... Have you ever tried to get a >zoning variance for a cell site in a residential neighborhood? It's not >like you can just stick these things wherever you'd like them. One side effect of this, according to what I've heard, is a source of revenue for churches, from leasing space in their steeples for cellular antennas. SignatureBest regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES: John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular> > [POSTED TO alt.cellular.cingular - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE] > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > One side effect of this, according to what I've heard, is a source of revenue > for churches, from leasing space in their steeples for cellular antennas. Yes, and then people start to litigate against the church: http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,68600,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5 Honestly, I think the moment anyone starts to holler against a cell phone tower being built near their area should be denied cell phone service. If you feel it's that much of a health hazard, then you shouldn't be allowed to use one. SignatureE-mail fudged to thwart spammers. Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Isaiah Beard <sacredpoet@sacredpoet.com> > Sent: 09/03/2005 4:21 PM -0400 > Subject: signal strength >> [POSTED TO alt.cellular.cingular - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE] >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> revenue >> for churches, from leasing space in their steeples for cellular antennas. I personally know of a church in Worcester, MA, with a cellular installation inside the high, prominently located steeple. It's completely invisible from the outside and nearly so from the inside (equipment installed at great expense and engineering effort to make it so). Copper louvered openings high in the tower were replaced by fiberglass look-alike replacements (originals in safekeeping for the future, thank you very much) behind which the antenna panels are mounted. Everything is internal to the tower structure, physically and visually. It was originally Omnipoint, T-Mobile now, I think, who are paying the church right at $30k per year. SignatureRJW |
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