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Thank you , I needed to hear that.
Great response ..

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On May 24, 2010, at 11:00, "Bruce Carter" <rbrucecarter@yahoo.com>
wrote:

> I keep seeing comparisons of service - people not happy with ATT,
> not happy with Verizon, not happy with Sprint, not happy with T-
> Moble. After having three of them, I can tell you that all have dead
> spots, all drop calls, all are less than satisfactory somewhere.
>
> I've worked with a cell phone base station manufacturer. That is the
> other side of your cell phone, the radio towers that connect it to
> land lines and make it work. I can tell you this - for the most part
> - all providers co-locate on cell towers. Just look at one of those
> masts sometime. They are about a hundred feet tall, and the antennas
> are vertical rectangles. There is an array of those antennas on
> towers, hidden places like water towers, on power line towers, just
> about everywhere. The reason why there are so many is because more
> than one provider, sometimes all 4 are there. If not, they are
> sharing antennas / leasing from somebody else.
>
> Coverage from multiple antennas creates moire patterns, which is a
> fancy way of saying micro-nulls, which equal drop outs. So you may
> have a drop out if you wander a few feet, a drop out that won't be
> there with another provider. If you happen to make a lot of calls
> from a "bubble" six feet in diameter, and if that happens to be in a
> null from your provider, you are probably going to be dissatisfied
> with your carrier. The solution to the problem is to move the darn
> phone to where you have a node - a strong reception point - instead
> of a null. It is a little like twiddling with rabbit ears in earlier
> days of television.
>
> Cell phone users have done this to themselves. Somehow somebody
> decided antennas weren't cool looking on phones, so the
> manufacturers struggle to put a good enough antenna hidden inside
> the phone. And using fractal technology, they do a pretty good job.
> But a whip antenna would still make everybody's phone, regardless of
> carrier, drop less calls. So don't complain about ATT or other
> carriers, point the finger at the coolness police that force less
> than adequate antennas on the darn phones! Most users wouldn't have
> a clue about how to add an antenna to a phone, and it would void
> warranties if they did.
>
> I will also say - CDMA - a standard used by Verizon and Sprint -
> just doesn't work very well. It is asynchronous, using code division
> instead of time division to divide up multiple conversations. Talk
> long enough, download long enough, your phone will get further and
> further out of sync with the base station, your audio or data will
> get more and more garbled, and eventually you WILL drop. Period, end
> of story. TDMA, or GSM, is time division multiple access, and both
> your phone and the base station are sync'd with GPS satellite time,
> which is darn accurage. So your ATT and T-Mobile phones are also
> darn accurate clocks, you can set your clock by them and be close to
> atomic time. But accuracy isn't nearly as important as having both
> your phone and the base station tied to the same accurate time
> source, they will not get out of sync, and theoretically you call
> could last forever.
>
> I find Verizon audio quality awful, and it gets worse as I talk, and
> in a hurry. Duh - CDMA - why should I be surprised? I've never had
> Sprint, but since it is CDMA I expect it does the same thing. ATT
> and T-Mobile audio are both great, and don't deteriorate over time.
>
> Coverage - there are so many variables the subjective statements of
> ATT sucking or Verizon sucking or whoever sucking that these
> statements are useless. The service sucks for one user, under a
> peculiar set of reception conditions they have - that make one
> carrier a little better in their situation. Move ten feet, or move
> to another city, another highway, or whatever, they themselves will
> flip-flop and think another carrier is better. When in reality they
> are just facing real world limitations of cell service, coupled with
> absolutely horrendously small antennas in the phone.
>
> --- In apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com, Allan Aunkst <aaunkst@...> wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know if there's talk of better service,I know At&t
> says its
> > working on it but yesterday while doing some traveling through the
> state of
> > Ohio. My iPhone had the worst service ever..most places no service.
> >
> > My contract ends on June 17th and I would hate to give up the
> iPhone but for
> > security purposes I am seriously thinking about going to a new
> company just
> > so I can get some decent service.
> >
> > If there's talk of the new iPhone having better service I might
> think about
> > staying,
> > This is a very hard choice being a mac guy .
> >
> > Thanks
> > Allan
> >
>
>

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