1900 Mhz Office Penetration
I currently work for a large private university in Philadelphia. While I get great coverage through T-mobile almost everywhere, I can't seem to get anything while in my office. I've called up T-mobile and they said they'd look in to it. A few days later, I get a call back and they tell me that they tried to install a tower closer to my university (I guess I wans't the only one suffering if they were willing to put up another tower) but the university won't let them. ☹️ *sigh*.
Anyone have any suggestions? This is what I've come up with so far...
1) I could switch to Cingular because the 850 towers in Philly seem to get the signal through. Two co-workers (who have Cingular) get 3-4 out of 5 bars easily at work while I get none.
2) I...
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Anyone have any suggestions? This is what I've come up with so far...
1) I could switch to Cingular because the 850 towers in Philly seem to get the signal through. Two co-workers (who have Cingular) get 3-4 out of 5 bars easily at work while I get none.
2) I...
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If you've got tmobile, i will just let you know one thing - don't get a quad band phone with them counting on the ability to use cingular towers- the roaming agreement has come to an end ☹️ so you would be really out of luck. I'm not going to persuade you either way, but if your area will not allow tmo to put up any new towers, you may be better off in the end service wide in that location to be with cingular. As for a repeater...well i've heard good and bad- i've heard of some workign really well, i've also heard of ppl buying them and getting absolutely no improvement in signal.
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You could also forward you cell phone during the day to your office or petition the school to allow cell carriers to put up more towers.
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Well, a lot of our roaming agreements with cingular have ended, but we still have some, but cingular burned a lot of bridges with us when they bought at&t with yanking our roaming agreements with no warning we had with at&t, so while they still exist out there, they aren't as plentiful as they used to be. We have roaming agreements to my understanding with over 40 carriers (local, regional etc...), some that don't even sell phones, just lease spectrum both in 1900 and 850mhz.
It is also a very common misconception that if you have a GSM phone you can roam on any network that is there if your phone supports the frequency...this is only true if there is a roaming agreement already in place in order for you to be able to register on any othe...
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It is also a very common misconception that if you have a GSM phone you can roam on any network that is there if your phone supports the frequency...this is only true if there is a roaming agreement already in place in order for you to be able to register on any othe...
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Thanks for your indepth response, bizkitsngravy!
Just a few things..
"While cingular may have service in your office, it still might be 1900mhz, just have a better positioned tower...they use both 1900 and 850. (just a fyi)"
Well, I'm pretty sure it's an 850 tower of Cingular's that's providing the service. My friend who works with me has an unlocked phone that supports 850/1800/1900. With his cingular sim card, he gets 3-4 out of 5 bars. With my t-mobile sim card he gets 0. I've also checked with my current cell phone (also unlocked) that's 900/1800/1900. With my T-mobile sim card I get zero bars, and with his Cingular sim card I get zero bars. Seems to suggest that the 1900 band doesn't penetrate deep enough, but it's 850 does. I...
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Just a few things..
"While cingular may have service in your office, it still might be 1900mhz, just have a better positioned tower...they use both 1900 and 850. (just a fyi)"
Well, I'm pretty sure it's an 850 tower of Cingular's that's providing the service. My friend who works with me has an unlocked phone that supports 850/1800/1900. With his cingular sim card, he gets 3-4 out of 5 bars. With my t-mobile sim card he gets 0. I've also checked with my current cell phone (also unlocked) that's 900/1800/1900. With my T-mobile sim card I get zero bars, and with his Cingular sim card I get zero bars. Seems to suggest that the 1900 band doesn't penetrate deep enough, but it's 850 does. I...
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hey what t-mobile location do you work at? i was just wondering b/c you know an awful lot to not work there, lol.
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cool im a direct...count your self lucky that you dont have to deal w/ people in person, lol
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kumbhani said:...
I currently work for a large private university in Philadelphia. While I get great coverage through T-mobile almost everywhere, I can't seem to get anything while in my office. I've called up T-mobile and they said they'd look in to it. A few days later, I get a call back and they tell me that they tried to install a tower closer to my university (I guess I wans't the only one suffering if they were willing to put up another tower) but the university won't let them. ☹️ *sigh*.
Anyone have any suggestions? This is what I've come up with so far...
1) I could switch to Cingular because the 850 towers in Philly seem to get the signal through. Two co-workers (who have Cingular) get 3-4 out of 5 bars easil
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