No Verizon at Palm Springs Airport

**CellGeek** · 11-13-2023, 11:12 AM

Flying out of Palm Springs Airport this morning. No data at gate 18 although 1 to 2 bars of signal. People with T-Mobile are happily surfing the Internet. WTF!!!! WTF!!!!!!

This is an airport. What is wrong with Verizon? I am just about at the end of my rope with them and it has been a very long rope?

Can you all believe this? No usable data at the airport?

**hyelton** · 11-13-2023, 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by CellGeek

Flying out of Palm Springs Airport this morning. No data at gate 18 although 1 to 2 bars of signal. People with T-Mobile are happily surfing the Internet. WTF!!!! WTF!!!!!!

This is an airport. What is wrong with Verizon? I am just about at the end of my rope with them and it has been a very long rope?

Can you all believe this? No usable data at the airport?

Typical Verizon congestion. I’ve never really experienced Verizon data being completely dead. But I’ve experienced it being a few hundred kbps while T-Mobile zooming along at 500mbps. That’s the usual in my town on a Friday night.

I have experienced T-Mobile being completely dead data wise though. T-Mobile was like this in the CLT airport while waiting for security, switched over to Verizon was slow but it worked.

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**Serial Port** · 11-13-2023, 01:02 PM

Never forget that the FCC regulates cellular signals at airports nationwide. Coverage can be hit and miss. The carriers are strongly regulated and have limited access to place towers near airports. Some gates may get better coverage than others and it is something you have to accept, like it or not. I am not trying to apologize for it, just pointing out the reality of it all.

**october262** · 11-13-2023, 01:03 PM

Originally Posted by CellGeek

Flying out of Palm Springs Airport this morning. No data at gate 18 although 1 to 2 bars of signal. People with T-Mobile are happily surfing the Internet. WTF!!!! WTF!!!!!!

This is an airport. What is wrong with Verizon? I am just about at the end of my rope with them and it has been a very long rope?

Can you all believe this? No usable data at the airport?

does the airport not have free WIFI ??

**CellGeek** · 11-13-2023, 02:37 PM

Should not need free WiFi. I pay for cell service and expect it to work at airports.

**CellGeek** · 11-13-2023, 02:38 PM

Arrive in Denver a few minutes ago. No 5g here at DIA!! WTF!! Verizon you gotta be kidding me!! Is this a joke? DIA is a major airport!

**blkballoon925** · 11-13-2023, 02:41 PM

There’s no Verizon 5G inside DFW either. When I was there earlier this year, data was badly congested in our terminal. AT&T appeared to have mmWave inside.

A lot of Verizon DASes still seem to be LTE, but often are fully loaded with mid-band. One of my local mall’s Verizon DAS has B2, B48, and B66.

**CellGeek** · 11-13-2023, 03:16 PM

Originally Posted by blkballoon925

There’s no Verizon 5G inside DFW either. When I was there earlier this year, data was badly congested in our terminal. AT&T appeared to have mmWave inside.

A lot of Verizon DASes still seem to be LTE, but often are fully loaded with mid-band. One of my local mall’s Verizon DAS has B2, B48, and B66.

Slow depriotized data in here. I am being pushed toward AT&T. This stuff is unbelievable. I haven’t flew since before Covid and expected to see progress, but it’s the same old slow Shlt at the airports. Verizon is clueless 🕵️*♀️

**CellGeek** · 11-13-2023, 04:20 PM

Tell me about Airport DAS. Does the airport pay for the DAS, or does the cell phone company pay for it?

**CellGeek** · 11-13-2023, 04:55 PM

I am here at the Sheraton Downtown Denver. DAS in the building is all LTE. I wonder how long Verizon will milk LTE.

Does anyone know if AT&T is any better?

**PaulCrawhorne** · 11-13-2023, 05:21 PM

You need to lower your expectations on this specific topic.

As has been explained.

Use WiFi Calling when WiFi is available

**CellGeek** · 11-13-2023, 05:41 PM

Wi-Fi exposes your phone to hackers. Yes I know… I need to get a VPN which is another cost that I shouldn’t need to incur if Verizon provided reliable cell service in airports.

**Serial Port** · 11-13-2023, 05:51 PM

Please, just drop it as the carriers cannot build cellular towers close to the airport and DAS or WiFi is the alternative, albeit short range. If your cellular coverage at the airport is unavailable, life still goes on. The carriers cannot build out their networks as much as you want them to. Usually, there are only 1 or 2 carriers with coverage in such a structure. I would imagine that the airport limits which carriers can provide the signal, no different than in a subway environment.

**formercanuck** · 11-14-2023, 12:39 AM

Ive had similar issues on both At&t and TMobile at LAX in the mot too distant past. As far ad coverage goes, you'll find that TMobile has lots of complete service gaps in many more places than VZW... often complete communities

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**@Class** · 11-14-2023, 12:07 PM

Originally Posted by CellGeek

Can you all believe this? No usable data at the airport?

So I would probably jump carriers because of this... AT&T seems to be a happy medium between coverage and speed vs t-mobile.

It's not like Verizon doesn't have metrics to understand which areas are so over congested as to not even get a data registration flag. They do, and they just don't do anything about it... @sheytoon would know more about this, but I think the maximum active users in any given cell is around 2,500.

I would have expected more given all the bands and LTE aggregation (or in times of congestion desegregation) going on.