There are tower maps on the Internet. I looked up the towers for the carrier. Funny thing is I had similar dropouts from my former carrier in that park at about the same locations and they don't have an antenna there so maybe something else is interferring. The new carrier wanted to put a tower dressed as a pine tree almost behind my house but the neighbors fought it. From FCC records it appears the new tower down the road a mile and a half was approved on the 15th. I don't know how long it will take to be implemented. It too will be on a PG&E tower.

On 09/28/2012 12:56 PM, bob wrote:
Are you *100%* certain it was using the tower you were standing next to?

On Friday, September 28, 2012 2:05:55 PM UTC-5, jtoolsdev wrote:
I recently changed my mobile carrier to save some money.  The new
carrier's signal here at the house isn't so good for data so my apps
with LVL can fail when trying to link up with Play.  To me that answers
why some of my customers will get a failure (usually within the first
few days of installing since I don't check beyond that). I tell them it
may well be due to poor carrier signal and to try wifi if they can.  I
use wifi instead at the house though the carrier is putting up a new
tower down the road so that problem will go away.

What I noticed this morning on a walk at a park where that carrier has a
tower or antenna (it's on a PG&E high transmission tower) is that I got
dropouts listening to streaming radio.  Walking outdoors in this
neighborhood where that tower is over 2 miles away I don't get any drops
while listening.  So to the mobile wonks here why would I get dropouts
right at the tower?  The phone is an unlocked Galaxy Nexus and the
carrier is 4G or HSPA.  Signal was 3 or 4 bars right there at the
tower.  This could be useful to know if someone argues back that the
cell tower is right next door and not connecting.



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