One of the problems with Cell service is that it is hostage to
environmental conditions and topography.
Go into a hilly area and you have dropouts of cell service. Hills,
and stuff cut signal. Cities also have problems with buildings
causing drop offs. Many cell companies have to increase their
antennas in cities to get good coverage. But then you can place them
atop buildings and get better coverage.
In my are it is military posts that limit some signal coverage. Not
only are we dealing with federal land, but also extensive flying are
that must have permission to put anything that sticks up into the air.
Until we get over some of those limitations it will be difficult.
When Katrina hit New Orleans, we had problems communicating with our
people in the NO area by voice. However SMS worked amazingly
well. Takes up a lot less bandwidth. (And is a cash cow for cell companies.)
Stewart
At 09:40 AM 2/11/2010, you wrote:
Getting a cell signal in parts of Great Falls in Virginia, near
McLean and close to the CIA and DC can be difficult, and that is a
fairly well populated section of the Virginia suburbs, and even a
so-called high rent district.
Thank goodness I have an old timey, and some believe obsolete, wired
telephone at home here in Fauquier County, VA. During the recent
storm electricity was out, cell signals were iffy at best as is usual,
complicated even more by snow and blowing wind, and cell phone
batteries died, but that old telephone technology just kept on
cranking without fail. I even distributed two of those old "obsolete"
phones to neighbors who only had cordless phones that do not work
without electric service, and that was down for nearly five days.
Steve
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[email protected]
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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