Is there anywhere i can put in a tower request?

Well I know you can go to sprint.com and look to see if there is by chance going to be a tower there. Also I am not aware of any phone number or email that you can call. One suggestion though you can force your sprint phone to roam so let it do that and you could probably go off verizon. What phone do you have an what area are you in?

 

Both Litchfield and Watertown have new CDMA sites on the horizon.

 

Near Black Rock State park.

 

Well sorry that it is a pain in the ___. But yeah it seems like your only option right now. Even if you could put in a tower request it could take years before anything would be done most likely.

 

The M610 might not be helping your situation. I have noticed my M610 to have worse reception than other Sprint phones I have used. I love the phone but it doesn't hold up as well in fringe areas as some of the other phones, especially Sanyo's.

Requesting a cell site.... I have managed to get in contact with some people at Sprint that are higher up than the folks you talk to normally. Through e-mails and phone conversations I have informed them of areas that are in desperate need of coverage. The response I got was very polite and appreciative of my concern.

I asked if there was any chance that they could come out and build a tower in the next couple years and I got a bunch of information about how there is a long precess for deciding upon a new site and so on. Sadly that is true and sadly your or my asking is probably not going to get anywhere. They need a lot of complaints before they even consider taking a request seriously. I even said I could find land for them and most of the areas I had in mind have easy access to utilities. One major area is well covered by Unicel but only Unicel. I asked about getting CDMA panels on the Unicel towers and they said yes it's possible and I was told a crew would be sent out at some point to evaluate my area. (This was way before the Verizon deal with Unicel/Rural Cellular and Unicel is GSM up here)

Yes it is possible to request a tower. You have to be persistent and talk to the right people. Even then you will not have any success. Go ahead and try it but I don't think Sprint even bothered to send a crew out for me. Why would they bother just because one customer is complaining? In 5 years Sprint will have filled most of the holes so just wait till then.

In the meantime I would suggest getting a small antenna for your vehicle since you seem to have problems when you are on the road. They look kinda dorky but you will have better service in most cases. Good luck and try talking to Sprint. I don't think you will get very far unfortunately.

 

CT/WMA - New Sprint & Nextel Sites;

SPRINT
Southbury - July
Weston - August
Agawam MA - August
Bristol/Forestville - August
Sherman - August
New Fairfield - August

NEXTEL
Stamford - July
Bridgeport (3 sites) - July & August
Woodbridge - August
Norwalk - August

 

i've heard people simply submit coverage trouble tickets but if you know anyone else with Sprint then have them call in too cuz the more they hear about the area the more they might want to put a tower out

 

I have an in with an empolyee

 

All carriers have plans on where they want to improve coverage, and are usually put in some kind of order, at times the sites get pushed up or down for various reasons, lease/landlord issues, zoning, funding gets pulled for one site in favor of another, etc. for example site A has been on the planning table for years and then property B opens up, this site gets put to the top of the list, gets the go ahead, funding is moved around and it gets built in a couple of months, while pushing the other sites down the list.

 

i can understand that.......putting a tower up isnt just a matter of going out and constructing something............there are politics and paperwork involved.......

btw.............Nextel used to run a site where you could submit coverage complaints...........of course the page has been shut down but it would be neat if they were to start something like that back up again