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Where are the dead spots in your area?
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Posted by: rockon83

I think it would be informative to know from user experience where Cingular works good, and where they have no service...obviously you'll need to list whether you're referring to GSM or TDMA...

I'll start...Cingular works perfect everywhere in Worcester pretty much. The only dead spots I know of in the city, are at Tatnuck Sq. inside of Friendly's or Rocky's hardware. That little strip mall. Also in Showcase Cinemas North, in some of the theaters.

On the roads, there are some dead spots on I-395 goin down to foxwoods, and major dead spots on rt. 9 thru ware-belchertown.

(TDMA/Analog)

Posted by: kev_1669

Columbus, GA TDMA 1900Mhz.

None, really........

Inside TJMAX on Macon Rd....u kick over to Roam and get 3-4 BarsDigical

...........Inside, thick buildings(Hospital mainly) you will kick over to PSC Wireless's 800Mhz. system....and get good signal...........

Posted by: ChadS

In Philly on TDMA 800 there really aren't too many - basically Verizon and Cingular are head to head coverage wise.

With GSM, coverage was identical up until last week when they moved GSM from the cellular band to the PCS (1900) band for the time being. I can't even begin to list all the dead zones now, I am just hoping they move it back soon. Hopefully Cingular will see the

Posted by: drHo

los angeles area (near the beach) GSM (since 1998!)
only dead areas are: my night table, the restroom, some parts of Gardena, some parts of Carson. eveywere else is pretty damn good...i've taken it all the way to seattle, and down to tijuana and over to las vegas. good service..

Posted by: powertoburn

The dead spots for Cingular 1900Mhz GSM lately have vanished for me here in Pasadena, CA. The coverage ALL OF A SUDDEN got great prior to that it was plenty deadzones.

Posted by: cellone1234

Boston area.........The mens room at Legal Seafood In Chestnut Hill and he Mobile station in Duxbury.

Philly- The rest room at Jims Steaks 4th and south
532 right where the Famous Deli was in Bucks County
Furntiure Unlimited Quakertown
germantown and willow grove avenue in chestnut hill

Baltimore-Ft McHenery Tunnel.......Sterling...........McClean Virginia right near nextel headquarters........right by the Greenbelt Cingular offices and the White House(hmmmmmmmmm)

Florida...............it works everywhere

Posted by: jondon

GSM - Santa Clarita, CA - at the end of McBean Pkwy which meets with Copper Hill Dr, and going east along Copper Hill to Haskell Canyon...one big dead spot.

Posted by: gdaswani

Southern California - GSM - Cal State San Bernardino..

No signal at all in the middle of the campus, spotty at best..

Posted by: I have a phone

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Originally posted by cellone1234
Boston area.........The mens room at Legal Seafood In Chestnut Hill ........right by the Greenbelt Cingular offices and the White House(hmmmmmmmmm)

I'll give you the men's room in Chestnut Hill, I've eaten there and know the building layout, but the Greenbelt Office has a site right there. -85 or better in the building

Posted by: Caligula

part of route 27 in cedar grove, maryland, is analog STILL and worthless for call quality.

Posted by: notld66

Dead spots in the Metro Detroit Area:

Sorry to to high number of dead spots in our area, I thought it might be easier to list the areas that Cingular phones DO work well.

( )

ha - just kidding (or not)

Posted by: cellone1234

add the following areas where Cell Phones don't work

Rikers

Sing Sing

Greaterford

Alcatraz

Allanwood

Prisons........................................... ............................................

Posted by: AzN sPiKeS

I'm not sure if this is just me but there are times when I am getting like 3 bars or so on my Nokia 3390 but calls never get through to me. Phone says I got good signal, in reality, I am getting no signal at all.

"The dead spots for Cingular 1900Mhz GSM lately have vanished for me here in Pasadena, CA." This is also true for Whittier, CA. I think it was because of the millions of dollars Cingular invested for the new cell tower upgrades over Summer of 2002.

Only dead spot I still get is inside one of my friend's apartment in Whittier.

Posted by: AxInDaGhetto

My dead spot is my home sweet home

Posted by: schark

Auburn, CA going up Hw 49 towards Grass Valley - spotty as fsck
Meadow Vista, CA - next to nothing

Posted by: Darla

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Originally posted by I have a phone
I'll give you the men's room in Chestnut Hill, I've eaten there and know the building layout, but the Greenbelt Office has a site right there. -85 or better in the building

Please tell me the men's room is a restaurant!!!

Posted by: I have a phone

Quote:

Originally posted by Darla
Please tell me the men's room is a restaurant!!!

now now.... no evil thoughts

I was referring to the men's room at Legal Seafood in Chestnut Hill MA... from the previous post

Posted by: cryogenic

Well, in my area, we have a fair number of deadspots, though they've fixed one or two within the past 6-8 months. Hwy 61 in much of Union County (northeast of Knoxville) is pretty well dead... Hwy 25 between Powell and Lake City is ridden with dead spots as well.... Loudon County seems to be particularly weak, and oddly enough right at Loudon HS, there's a deadspot. Also there's an odd 1-2 mile deadspot on I-75 north around mile marker 114 or so... drops calls everytime I go through there. Same goes for a spot on I-40 just on the west side of Roane County. I really can't say I find it acceptable to drop calls on a major interstate near downtown in a city (OK, so Knoxville isn't REALLY a city... but whatever).. Any of you guys out there have issues with dead spots on interstates in urban areas?

Posted by: I have a phone

nope. We must have a great engineering department

Posted by: cryogenic

you must... and it seems that the DCS market is the ******* child of Cingular... they don't seem to give a squat about us and our insanely stupid roaming issues. If you're curious... read here :P

Posted by: schark

Quote:

Originally posted by Darla
Please tell me the men's room is a restaurant!!!

Posted by: roamer1

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Originally posted by cryogenic
Well, in my area, we have a fair number of deadspots, though they've fixed one or two within the past 6-8 months.

Chattanooga TDMA is still riddled with dead spots; GSM has got to be worse.

-SC

Posted by: WoeDee

Downtown Los Angeles / Wilshire District has several GPRS deadspots.

Posted by: cryogenic

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Originally posted by roamer1
Chattanooga TDMA is still riddled with dead spots; GSM has got to be worse.

-SC

I've not been down there since I got my GAIT phone, but I always had acceptable coverage in and around the city on Voicestream when I had my GSM T61z. I kinda wonder if my GAIT phone will drop off to TDMA in a timely manner given a GSM deadspot... or if it won't search quick enough to bounce between the two and close up some of the GSM holes.

Posted by: cyberdude

I'm glad to hear coverage is getting better in some areas but here where I live, in the Torrey Hills area of San Diego, I get zippo! You'd think that living just up the hill from one of the largest wireless communities in the country the signal would be a little better. My Cingular rep told me in August that by the end of Oct '02 there would be two towers coming on line here but I still have no signal at home unless I'm standing on my roof (don't ask). It's kinda like the old Green Acres re-runs wheere you have to climb a pole to make a phone call.

Posted by: elnino

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Originally posted by rockon83
I think it would be informative to know from user experience where Cingular works good, and where they have no service...obviously you'll need to list whether you're referring to GSM or TDMA...

Lets see..... my house 65% of the time is a dead area. I have to be on the top floor to even think about makign a call. And then anywhere on the north and south ends of the city I live in. Forget about reception in a lot of buildings...stupid 1900MHz GSM and TDMA! Reception got a little better switching to GSM, but not much.

Posted by: mastermind278

My Basement....

Cingular in Newark, NJ uses T-mobile's towers, and T-mobile has great coverage!

Posted by: Jax

I have encountered a few dead spots in the New England area.

Dead spot number one was entering the Hershey Highway when entering behind EMAGS Wife

Dead Spot Number 2 was between "Ihave A phone" wifes thighs.

I put my phone on vibrate and that seem to correct the problem!

Posted by: emag*rad

Quote:

Originally posted by Jax
I have encountered a few dead spots in the New England area.

Dead spot number one was entering the Hershey Highway when entering behind EMAGS Wife

Dead Spot Number 2 was between "Ihave A phone" wifes thighs.

I put my phone on vibrate and that seem to correct the problem!

Interesting.

I found another dead spot: between Jax's ears.

Posted by: I have a phone

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slow day in the mall at the kiosk eh Jaxoff? Get back to work, those teenage girls want you to sell them new faceplates

Posted by: adrianblack

There used to be a dead spot on my way home from work on Foutain in Hollywood/West Hollywood. But that cleared up several moths ago.

There was also a dead spot in Berverly wood near Pico/Robertson but that was also totally fixed a few months ago.

Recently, I went from my office (Hollywood and Vine) to home (near La Cienega/Santa Monica) with perfect reception. Then drove to LAX and was on the phone the whole time .. driving over the oil fields on La Cienega. A couple of momentary breakups but nothing dropped.

My friend works in Duarte and lives in Los Angeles on Robertson. All the time he drives hom from work -- about 30 miles and we talk the whole time without a dropped call. 210 -> 605 -> 10 -> Robertson exit.

Damn great! Service has improved 100% since T-Mobile came online with Cingular.

My apartment works fine with Cingular with 1-2 bars, but is a big dead spot for Verizon and Sprint ... ATT (non GSM) works marginally.

Basically, in my day to day life, I don't encouter any dead spots except in a few of the theaters at the Grove. (Farmer's market.)

Doesn't work in the elevator at work in a highrise in hollywood. (Nor do other phones.)

Posted by: indystorm

Dead spots? I've never heard of such a thing in cellular.... ha! on a serious note... the coverage is quite good in Eastern CT.... a little weak out towards scotland/canterbury, and then out by baltic/versailles area..... pretty solid otherwise though....

Jay.

Posted by: Jax

There are two dead spots in New England:

1) between the thighs of Emags Wife's Lips

2)Between the thighs of "I Have A Phone" wifes legs

Posted by: kev_1669

Quote:

Originally posted by Jax
There are two dead spots in New England:

1) between the thighs of Emags Wife's Lips

2)Between the thighs of "I Have A Phone" wifes legs

U said that already.......

Posted by: struff

http://www.deadcellzones.com/ lets u list or search for dead spots by carrier and by area.