Dropped Calls
Dropped calls may occur for several reasons... sometimes, there's no enough coverage or you are in an area where thre's coverage hole. or you are walking while on the phone, that causes switching from one tower to another. Calls dropped in all locations and at all times of the day/night are indication of a handset issue.
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actually dropped calls for the most part should not drop while walking a tower to tower handoff should not cause a dropped call on a reliable network such as verizon, this can hapeen many times while on a call for example in chicago there is a tower about ever 1/4 to 1/2 mile in all directions if I walk 10 blocks I may utiliize 5-10 towers. hence the reason we call this a mobile phone you do not have to be stationary to make or receive a phone call.
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Keep in mind your chatting in the Sprint forum, "seemless transfer" is Greek to them. 😉
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The person who posted this must've just got out of training class. Switching towers will only drop the call if you're going from analog -> digital or visa versa. Sprint to sprint tower handoffs will not result in a dropped call.
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sprint uses cdma like verizon and cdma will utilize more than one tower and it does soft-handoff so a dropped call should not occur because of tower switching, a cdma phone will utilize 2 or more towers if possible
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Okay, dropped calls on a CDMA network do not occur during handoff since the handoff is a soft handoff. Motion is not an issue, nor is speed.
Signal strength is the only reason a call is dropped on a CDMA network or a handset that takes itself off of the network periodically such as the early Nokias, the Audiovox 8600, the Samsung A-310, the Motorola V276, V265, T720, etc.
Funny, all are Verizon handsets.
Signal strength is the only reason a call is dropped on a CDMA network or a handset that takes itself off of the network periodically such as the early Nokias, the Audiovox 8600, the Samsung A-310, the Motorola V276, V265, T720, etc.
Funny, all are Verizon handsets.
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the biggest reason a call is dropped on a CDMA network is a result of software glitches. the towers them selves are not picking up the calls. irronically the soft hand off makes sw glitch more likely to occure while at the same time makeing a "hard drop" less likely. this is why when you have cdma you can drop a call when you have full signal and no error message like "signal faded"
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