[ale] Fading OT ... Re: Droid updates to a happy setup

John Mills johnmills at speakeasy.net
Wed Aug 25 09:19:18 EDT 2010


T-Mo's coverage map is (unfortunately for me) _very_ accurate regarding a 
dead zone off GA-5 between Blue Ridge and McKaysville -- there's a tower 
in view and AT&T is stronger down in the hollow than in my Atlanta 
kitchen. Maybe I could convince T-Mo to lease some bandwidth there, too ..

  - Mills

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Drifter wrote:

> I discovered earlier this year that T-Mo has no coverage along the Gulf
> Coast from the Ala.-Miss. border at least as far east as the outskirts of
> Pensacola, Fla.  We had coverage in the Mobile area, but it died about
> half way to the coast (Mobile is actually about 25 miles inland.)  East of
> Pensacola, again along the coast, is another T-Mo dead zone, this one
> south of Tallahassee.

> Sean

> On Wednesday, August 25, 2010 12:35:55 am Michael B. Trausch wrote:

>> I don't know of many places that T-Mo *actually* doesn't cover; I know
>> that some phones have better radio setups than others, though, so my
>> guess is that is also part of the problem.  That the radio is running
>> upgradeable firmware means that there are many metaphorical moving
>> parts that can break...

>> 	--- Mike


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