[RTC List] Cell phone service and fiber cable

[Keri Raphael]

We haven't switched either.  I tested the new tech phone (loaner) on 299 and found that where I can usually call out with the old tech, the new tech had no signal.  Declined upgrading.  They tell me that the old tech will be discontinued in the nearish future, but till then I'll use my old clunker.
Keri
On dialup again - Hughes satellite out again

Michael Welch <mwelch at redwoodalliance.org> wrote:   Hi gang. Interesting discussion. Mine worked too, but because it went into roam, picking up non-Edge transceivers.

 A crow flies about a mile and a half from the tower on McKinley Mountain to my home. I usually pick up Edge there, and I assumed from that tower since it is within view, through some trees. But I noticed that my phone was roaming Sunday, and I had full bars. In the past, at other locations, sometimes I had been able to get off roam and onto Edge by rebooting my phone. That was the case this time, as well, but Edge only had one bar, and soon my phone switched back to roam, which was usable. But often with roam (anywhere), it is necessary to use an area code when dialing.

 Also, I am one of the few holdouts on Edge's old system, not having switched over to GSM. My sweetheart has switched, and I find less problems and more available cell sites than she.

 Rollin Richmond wrote at 12:33 PM 01/21/2007:
  
 Dave:  I have an Edge phone and it worked.  In fact, I used it to connect my laptop to the net with a Palm modem program I have on my Treo from my home in Bayside.  However, when I tried to use my phone in Eureka yesterday during the outage, I could receive email but not send it.  Not sure that helps except to complicate things.  Let us know if you figure it out.   Rollin

 On Jan 21, 2007, at 12:14 PM, David C. Thewlis wrote:

 I understand that the cellphone companies will backhaul their LD traffic from here via the fiber and therefore their long distance service would not work either.

 However:  where I live (Dow's Prairie near the Forest Service Nursery) the signal is never four bars, but acceptable.  But both times the fiber link was out (and for the duration of its being out) there was no signal whatsoever.  Nothing for the phone to detect or connect to.

 That's the mystery I would like to understand.  If as Tina and Matt say they did have Edge service where they were, then perhaps only the cell towers within line-of-sight from where I live had no service.  But why would the *towers* not be transmitting, especially if in other places they were?  Anybody from Edge Wireless on this list that would be able to comment?

 Dave

 Tina Nerat wrote: 
 
 We were driving back from SF yesterday. Gregg Foster had warned me in a voice mail about service issues, and sure enough, we saw ATT bucket trucks next to a burned building north of Willits. 
 
  
 
 Remember, most of the cell phone companies must use ATT to backhaul their traffic out of here to their switches and networks. I have Edge and found that it worked here locally only if I put in the area code – I got errors every time when dialing just the local 7 digit number. Tina
 
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