Montclair State U Coverage

If Nextel & Verizon have campus "Panels", then Why would T-Mobile Erect an actual "TOWER", on the top of a Grandstand no less ?? It must be a massive odd looking structure & an eyesore!!:biggrin:

 

Can you take a picture of those towers for us, jones?

 

Cingular has been weak in this area for a long time, I remember this came up when I was at a club up there & once inside there was no reception on my phone.
Maybe Cingular is going to do something up there soon, but your right they should update their maps to show true coverage gaps like this.

 

I wouldn't say they have been weak for a long time. I would say "always".

Basically, I recall back in the AT&T TDMA days Montclair was a mostly spotty area. I haven't been there in a long time and probably due to NIMBYs it has remained with little improvement.

 

Actually, what they need to do is to define the colors properly. After multiple tests in several areas, I've found that the deep orange areas apply to any area where you get about -98dBm or better. The next lighter orange level takes you into the -100's and the lightest orange is probably to the point where service is useless near the -110's. So again, we agree the maps are very misleading as they overstate the description of the colors.

IMO, the deep orange should be reserved only for areas where you get full bars outdoors. The mid orange to indicate you have about 3 of 5 bars (about -90dBm on most phones) and light orange when service is 1 bar (about -99dBm). That would give a much better representation of actual coverage.

 

This would be the best thing they could do for true coverage, and would make it closer to T-Mobiles maps.