Who's on this tower?

My guess is that either T-Mobile or Sprint are on that tower, but that is just a guess. The best way to find out is to go to the bottom of this tower where the equipment sits and see if there's a number/logo/name anywhere...usually there is and that will lead you to know who the providers are.

 

I agree with Andy. T-Mobile on the top and Sprint on the bottom.

 

We agree for once???

 

If you go Settings on your T-Mobile Phone,
then Manual Network Selection and see Cingular
Then it's Cing since you get a strong Signal w/ Cing.
You may Not even see T-Mob since they have No Signal.

 

Yep Global signal is very likely to be Sprint. So it's Sprint and some other 1900 Mhz carrier. Who else uses 1900 Mhz in that market?

 

http://wjz.com/businesswire/CrownCastle-GlobalSig_f_f_9----/resources_news_html
Crown Castle to buy rival cell-phone tower company Global Signal for $4B in cash and stock

 

Such a shame too since GS just finally finished resigning all the sites from the last time they had a merger

 

They'll always be Pinnacle to me.

 

Yeah, in your neck of the woods. Pinnacle didn't have much of a presence out here. Not near as many sites as ATC/SS.

 

Just curious are there any identification Guidelines to identify panels for carriers, I know that Sprint does one panel per sector, but there's gotta be more identifying marks that should distinguish the carrier.

 

They were very weak up here as well, but in a past life I did a lot of business with them...when they were still paying their bills

 

That's pretty hard to do as the antennas and configuration used will vary from market to market. This is especially true with Cingular and Verizon Wireless as their networks are comprised of many bought out networks and many of the antennas in use are the ones installed by the networks original owner. The best advice is to look through the gallery here and see the antennas used. Hopefully most of them are properly identified (I know mine are :biggrin and you can use the pictures as a learning guide.

 

Funny you mention that, one of my friends systems (located at a Pinnacle site) went off the air several years back, when he went up to investigate he found the power disconnected and a red disconnect tag from the power company.

 

If you can get close enough to the base of the tower, check out either the electrical meters or on the transmitter boxes to see what carrier is there. I know when I am not sure I will go to the base & from outside the fence I can ususally find out which carrier is there. I don't know if they do this in other states, but by me each carriers name is next to their electric meter.

 

I wouldn't, remember those panels are "sectorized" meaning they are aimed at a direction. if you get away from the tower about 100 feet you should have good signal, what you're catching is the bleed off of the panels.

 

Global signal is responsible for the actual physical tower, not the service coming from it. Call up TMobile as see what they say. Ask to open a ticket on the issue.

 

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Honestly, if you were getting a really good signal from a cell site standing at the base og the tower, it would cause for concern. It should not propogate/radiate straight down, therefore yoi are getting another site or lobe emissions which is what should be happening if the tilts are set properly on an average site.

 

Umm actually here in So. Cal I ALWAYS get a full signal from a tower when standing directly beneath it. There's more than enough signal bleeding that propogates downward to give about a -60 dbs rssi level on my phone. Most phones will show full signal strength at up to -75 dbs.

 

If you are only getting 1-2 bars that close then the tower is not functioning properly or for some reason is only powered at a low level. The only other possibilily I can think of is that it might be a repeater. A repeater will have a lower signal reading than a regular cell site.

 

I would be willing to bet when standing below a tower, your -60 is going to be from another site. That doesn't matter where in the world you are...it is simple physics of the propogation.