New Panels up Today (Tmbl?) Paramus NJ ...

Kudos to Sprint or T-Mobile,
it's about time either one of them
Do something about this Dead Zone.

My Guess is it's T-Mobile.
Cingular is 1 Bar on Spring Valley & Midland though.

 

Sprint uses that 2 white panel confirguration out here as well. In fact most of their sites are down to only one panel per sector now due to advances in technology.

 

Nothing in that area showing up yet for TM but it looks like a great candidate....

 

It's probably T-Mobile. Sprint only seems to be concentrating on adding CDMA to existing Nextel sites. I haven't seen them putting up many brand new sites. But who knows.

 

Well, even by just adding CDMA to iDEN sites, they can improve their signal dramatically in most metro areas!

 

Wirelessly posted (LG-LX350 AU-MIC-LX350/2.0 MMP/2.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1)

Absolutely. Plus its quick, easy and cheap to do.

 

Do you know where the Bergen Mall T-Mobile site is? If I remember right, T-Mobile was looking to put a flagpole at BJ's or do a rooftop at the little strip mall just to the south on 17. Do you know what they ended up doing at the rt17 - rt 4 area?

 

Thanks! I'm glad they followed through on that.

I think they had an in-building site for the interior of the mall across the street too, but I never went in to look for it. Might be some good gallery material over there.

 

I passed by that Commerce Bank today and it was kinda dark so I couldn't see the panels. Are they mounted on top of the building? I could only see a set of dark brown panels that looked like Nextels. This was on the Forest Ave. intersection with Sprint Valley. My phone had full signal there but it was not coming from that building.

Is this the Commerce Bank that you are referring to? 275 Forest Avenue, Paramus, NJ?

 

When I passed I didn't have my Motorola with me which has the field test screens. If I had to take a guess, my service should've been around -80dBm to -85dBm at that intersection since sometimes my phone popped down to 3 of 4 bars but quickly went back to 4 which is full bars for my Nokia 6131. So I doubt it is Cingular since I had full bars (4/4) most of the time while around there which leads me to believe Cingular is not on that building. Most likely it would be T-Mobile.

Driving down towards Howland Ave (just before getting there), that's the only time when I saw the service decrease down to 2 bars, but still audio was fine. Other than that I had full bars pretty much all the time. So I could not find any dead spots in the area.

 

Those areas are fine for Cing.

It is the Midland Ave and Spring Valley Rd
that is the weak spot and a Dead spot for
3 carriers.
I don't know why they don't
put in on the KFC (kentucky Fried chicken) bldg
on forest & midland ave.

 

Hooray for T-Mobile,
these Panels are T-Mobile Not Sprint/Nextel.
T-mobile Finally fixed their DEAD ZONE.

Sprint/Nextel is Now the only Dead Zone here,
Since Cingular has full Bars standing in front of
this Area, though it's Not coming from this Location.

 

i'd Like to Know what Site Too
i was there 2 days ago.

 

It's Possible that Cingular is in that Building Too,
since it's Full Bars and calls are Solid.

 

Hey guys I often get full bars when 1/2 mile or more away from a cell site. Bars are meaningless when trying to determine cell site location. Instead I use debug mode to track them by looking at the RSSI number. Usually anything less than -60 dbs means you are very close to a site.

 

I'll pull out my old motorola and do a site survey around there. Gimme a couple of days.

 

Yep, Cingular is in that Building.
They probably where there
even before VZW.

 

I got a chance to see the panels and Cingular is definitely there in the building next to the bank. I got about -44dBm when taking this picture. By the looks of it, it seems that only one carrier is there, and I'm sure it's Cingular. The other time I went up there, they must have not been active as I was not getting that strong a signal as I did today. So it looks like it is not T-Mobile in those panels after all.



The other carrier above Commerce Bank with the dark brown panels, Meatchicken said it was Verizon. That cannot be seen from the angle of this picture.

Funny thing is Midland Ave is not that far and these panels barely make it there. I was getting -95dBm on the corner of Midland and Forest.

 

As i remember there were 2 Building w/ Panels/Antennas,
so T-Mobile could be in there since their Compass Map
now shows new Cell Site.
Does Sprint/Nextel roam on VZW,
They don't have any Cell Site in this area.

 

I forgot to check how T-Mobile strength is at that spot. I can do a trick to my Motorola to quickly check T-Mo's signal even though I can't register on it due to roaming being blocked. I'll check on it next week.

By the way, here are the coverage maps for that particular area. Notice how T-Mobile clearly appears to have a site at that spot next to the bank. Sprint doesn't appear to have anything around that area. Nextel is just a shameful big dead spot. Cingular's map is virtually useless as it just blankets the whole area in orange, but notice how some Cingular 3G shows at the lower right corner indicated by the blue shading.









I have to pay closer attention next time. Maybe T-Mobile has been there for a longer time than we imagine. By looking at the picture I took more closely, there appears to be a panel-looking thing below the Cingular panels that appears to be a stealth panel. This could be T-Mobile. Check it out:

 

T-Mobile can't be there for Long
as i can still see their New Tower symbol
a week ago.

I did'nt see that in the Picture
till you put an arrow.

Cing maps needs to be refined
in Midland ave & Forest as it's only 2 bars
at that intersection you mentioned.

 

You can include Lodi,NJ except Nextel
which has Colocated on T-Mobile Tower in Lodi.

 

Sprint has a coming soon site a little north of there in Emerson.