So I live in a town with about 8K people. Only around 15 T-Mobile costumer.. But they have 2 towers here. One is GPRS and one is 2G I live right between them. Is there a way I can make my phone connect to the 2G tower instead of the GPRS? OR some way I can make T-Mobile upgrade the tower?
When you say 2G is that EDGE? .. I thought GPRS and EDGE were both considered 2G.
Anyways, I'm in a similar situation with you, town of about 8K people as well... There's one tower to cover the entire small town and its EDGE.. Usually kinda slow 100-120kbps.. If you head south away from the town, there's a GPRS tower here where I live, drive further south and its an EDGE tower before it converts to HSPA... So im stuck with GPRS in between two EDGE towers.
I've messed with my phone's band selection and there is no way I am able to "force" the phone to connect to EDGE. It only happens on its own when I reach the area where EDGE signal is stronger than GPRS.
I'd like to know if anyone has had success with talking to someone and submitting some kind of request? that they'd maybe consider upgrading the tower in the future?
It depends probably on your location (I'm in Western NC)... and also who owns the tower in your area (SBA Inc.)
Hoping to hear more responses. Where are you located?
When you say 2G is that EDGE? .. I thought GPRS and EDGE were both considered 2G.
Anyways, I'm in a similar situation with you, town of about 8K people as well... There's one tower to cover the entire small town and its EDGE.. Usually kinda slow 100-120kbps.. If you head south away from the town, there's a GPRS tower here where I live, drive further south and its an EDGE tower before it converts to HSPA... So im stuck with GPRS in between two EDGE towers.
I've messed with my phone's band selection and there is no way I am able to "force" the phone to connect to EDGE. It only happens on its own when I reach the area where EDGE signal is stronger than GPRS.
I'd like to know if anyone has had success with talking to someone and submitting some kind of request? that they'd maybe consider upgrading the tower in the future?
It depends probably on your location (I'm in Western NC)... and also who owns the tower in your area (SBA Inc.)
Hoping to hear more responses. Where are you located?
Many of the newer phones label the network G (grps) 2g (edge) or on of these: H, 3G, 4G, or H+
Well i live less then a hour away from St Louis so... I dont know if that counts.. Too far away?
T-Mobile is going to detail some network plans soon (they estimated later this month but it could be next month). It will be focused on improving network quality and that means less EDGE/GPRS and more HSPA.
So with the announcement are you talking about the ATT Spectrum or just something T-Mobile is going to do? If so do you have a link? And you mean HPSA+ or HSPA?
Network enhancements that T-Mobile is doing. Likely they will mention plans for the new AT&T spectrum (capacity additions) but the quality enhancements will be focused on HSPA+
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