My daughter will be starting her freshman year at IU in August %26#39;09. During our recent visit she found that she had weak cell phone reception on campus. We have Cingular and she%26#39;s coming from California (if that makes any difference at all). Can anyone tell me what your experiences with cell phone reception are? We are locked into a contract for another year and don%26#39;t want to switch if we can avoid it, but we want to make sure she has reliable service. Thanks!
Cell phone service on IU campus?
I too have Cingular; actually AT%26amp;T now, wasn%26#39;t the merger, purchase or whatever nationwide, so I can speak from experience.
I%26#39;ve not noticed any problems on campus, but then I don%26#39;t spend tons of time there trying to use my phone.
A few comments/thoughts:
1) I can say from experience that different phones can have a MAJOR influence. My brother and I have the same carrier, but had different phones (I actually have a 3rd model now). There were many cases were his reception was terrible compared to mine (haven%26#39;t had the new one long enough to say for sure if there is any real difference, but I don%26#39;t notice any problems).
2) Were you (trying) to use 3G? Bloomington does not currently have 3G coverage by AT%26amp;T (formerly Cingular). It is (supposedly) scheduled to come on line this summer. Anyway if you were set to use 3G and weren%26#39;t able to, I suppose that might have caused some problems.
3) When exactly were you here and what were things like on campus (crowds etc)? I have noticed problems with my reception when I am at locations where I know the cell is being heavily used and/or overloaded. I can imagine this happening on campus if it was crowed with students, parents, visitors, etc. (which would not always be the case).
4) Are you talking campus wide weak coverage? The campus is very large and I can easily imagine having weak coverage in some portions, but not others. If you travelled the whole campus and noticed weak bars everywhere, I might be ';concerned'; (that%26#39;s really too strong a word, but . . .) On the other hand, if you only tried to use it in one or two (close proximity) locations . . . .
5) Not sure where in CA you%26#39;re from, but we do have hills, large building etc which can have a definite impact on coverage in terms of causing dead/weak coverage areas, quite often of a very limited nature. I literally have walked a block or two and seen some pretty dramatic changes in ';bars'; on my phone.
Anyway, that a few comments/things for you to think about/consider.
Be glad to answer other question regarding your daughter VISITING Bloomington (remember TA policy re: other concepts which might be more applicable to your daughter%26#39;s situation - see some of the other (closed) posts on this forum if you aren%26#39;t catching my drift).
HLO
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