"Upgrades to AT&T towers could improve service on football Saturdays"
All I can say is: Thank you Michigan football gods..:
Hope this actually helps on Saturdays!
April 27th, 2012 at 10:39 AM ^
Key word there.
But LTE is supposed to use spectrum more efficiently, which should help.
April 27th, 2012 at 10:54 AM ^
GSM/ AT&t tower channels don't hold the call and user capacity that Verizon and Sprint ( CDMA) do on their towers for Voice so don't expect a huge improvement in trying to make a phone call.
April 27th, 2012 at 11:03 AM ^
you're a friggin' idiot.
April 27th, 2012 at 11:04 AM ^
So service could be upgraded from terrible to suck?
April 27th, 2012 at 11:12 AM ^
If you really want to improve your service on football saturdays all you have to do is switch to Verizon.
April 27th, 2012 at 11:18 AM ^
I've had a lot of trouble with 3g from verizon on game days. My buddy's android with 4g does okay (tweets, score checks, etc.), but I think 3g does get overloaded.
April 27th, 2012 at 11:13 AM ^
They tried putting a tower in my neighbors yard..middle of a quiet residential neighborhood...mfers..
April 27th, 2012 at 11:22 AM ^
Verizon 3G goes completely dead in the stadium on gamedays, I can't even text or call out
This is also my experience. I couldn't help but think of the stadium scene in "Sum of All Fears".
April 27th, 2012 at 11:39 AM ^
Switched to AT&T this year, had Verizon in the past. Couldn't make any calls and my phone died every gameday due to constant searching for a signal. Hoping this works , anything would be an improvement.
April 27th, 2012 at 11:44 AM ^
Maybe it is 4g vs. 3g my thunderbolt which is using a 4g phone never has any problem a getting signal on Verizon.
April 27th, 2012 at 12:22 PM ^
a DAS system installed in the stadium. Even with improved coverage from the towers, gamedays will still overload them. The problem with DAS is they need to hide the antennas installed in the stadium.
April 27th, 2012 at 12:22 PM ^
Why are you punk kids on your phone at the game? Watch the game and stop sexting each other.
Get off my lawn!
April 27th, 2012 at 12:43 PM ^
I have Sprint and struggle to get a signal when the stadium is full. Halftime and immediately after game I don't even try any more.
April 27th, 2012 at 12:56 PM ^
Put the phone away, watch the game, and make plans in advance for after the game. It's really not that hard.
The world we live in now looks like this.
So not true! Not one of those people are texting!
That picture is like.....SO 2003!!!
Dear AT&T...
How about getting some semblance of a signal on North Campus? Yeah, that'd be great.
Sincerely,
Everyone on North Campus
My phone rings, I look at caller ID, see it is my husband.
Me: Hi honey.
Him: Silence.
Me: Hello?
Him: Silence.
Me: HELLO?
Him: Silence.
Me: Let me guess, you're calling me from North Campus again. Call back when you get onto Fuller Road. CLICK.
I have no idea how they are still in bussiness. If you live in LA and have AT&T your calls will be dropped all the damn time.
I've been with Verizon forever and I can't even talk to my friends who have AT&T.
Time will tell...my AT&T iPhone simply adds weight to my pocket during many games at the Big House as it is unusable. It might be a bit unreasonable to build your system for 21 hours a year, assuming that the rest of the year works fine - big assumption.
Insert snort of derisive disbelief here
...that I actually have a few orders here for upgrades to the electrical services to these same towers (not kidding, actually). I suppose I could start assigning them to my group, eh?
If nothing else, I hope it does make service at least somewhat better. Granted, it takes someone calling persistently to drag me away from my seat at the game, but I wouldn't mind an increase in the chances of being able to get information if necessary.
Oh nevermind, Verizon customers rarely experience dropped calls because their network far supercedes that of AT&T.
Un-war AT&T.
Kicks ass at the stadium!
f a tee n tee that is all
April 27th, 2012 at 11:23 PM ^
f ess eee see while you're at it.
April 27th, 2012 at 11:22 PM ^
The article appears to be a bad, nontechnical explanation on adding a new chunk of spectrum to the system. If that is the case, then more capacity is being added. However, that could be a drop in the bucket given the needs of over 100k people with cell phones. Verizon adds a COW (cell on wheels) over by Pioneer high school for football games and that isn't near enough capacity to serve demand. Having spent over 20 years in the wireless telecom industry, stadiums are a huge challenge and expensive to serve for 6-8 days out of 365. New small cell technology will help, but that's in the future. In the meantime, I complain to people I know at Verizon wireless.
April 28th, 2012 at 11:01 AM ^
Since you keep feeding the monster, it serves you well.
ETF that ____ and live the good life with Verizon.