Cell Phone Coverage

[MarkP]

I have t-mobile and it is hit or miss in Eden Roc. Sometimes I am able to tether the computer through the phone and get on the internet but it is slow. Other times not even phone calls.

[Kapohocat]

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Originally posted by cwaters

We have jitterbug, the basic old floks cell phone, but it gives the best coverage in this area, and we have tryed all the others.

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I was wondering how that one would work.

Verizon is the worst in my neighborhood - it drops out about Nanawale - no coverage in Kapoho at all.

I have AT&T but Sprint & Nextel work sporadically here too I think. I lose AT&T every time on the corner of Puainako and Kanoelehua in Hilo.

[DanielP]

http://www.wilsonelectronics.com/

Not cheap, but very effective anywhere that there is the faintest of signals.

Dan

[808blogger]

If you have Sprint you get free unlimited roaming on verizon
its like 2 networks for 1 (and no i dont work or have anything to do with them other than they are a customer)

[hotinhawaii]

Jay, the Verizon tower doesn't show up on antennasearch.com which is usually pretty accurate for existing and approved towers and antennas.

[robguz]

I think most would actually agree that AT&T has the best coverage, and Sprint the worst. Sprint doesn't work below Pahoa. Verizon is similar to AT&T but in real world usage their data network is half the speed of AT&T on an iPhone. I don't have allegiance to any of them, and think they're all pretty awful in terms of service and coverage. But for now, I can't see any advantage to switching from AT&T. That's pretty good though if Sprint can really use Verizon with no extra charge.

[Jay Bondesen]

I understand that the tower in Leilani just went through planning for the final time a week ago. It was contested at the meeting a couple of months back but in the last meeting it received the final approval. Now they are in for building permits so construction will depend on that. At our board of directors meeting last night the guess was that it would be up by February. It is going up on the community rec area kind of in the middle of Leilani.

Jay

[KeaauRich]

In my experience as a former telecom exec, once a tower is approved, it gets put up ASAP before anyone changes their minds. A few years ago in DC, protesters who showed up to block the construction of a fully approved (after *years* of review) tower discovered that it had been completed and turned on the day before.

[MarkP]

Could only intermittently get on the internet last night while tethering to my T-Mobile Blackberry. It is much better this morning. Last night it was rainy. This morning there is a brilliant blue sky.

[MarkP]

I'm in Eden Roc.