Hurricane Outages
I live in central Florida and we were hit pretty hard in my area by hurricane Francis. I just swapped out my StarTac for a VX 4500 on Saturday the day before the storm came through and I'm now having some trouble having no signal where I had signal before. I commute once or twice a month between two major cities in Florida and while my coverage is fine when I'm at one of my homes I just noticed today that I had several dead spots on the turnpike where I could have sworn I had signal before.
I'm trying to figure out if this is something with the phone or if it's due to towers being out because of the storm. (Lots of areas are still without power, I wasn't sure if cell towers had backups or anything.) I won't be commuting again before my ...
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I'm trying to figure out if this is something with the phone or if it's due to towers being out because of the storm. (Lots of areas are still without power, I wasn't sure if cell towers had backups or anything.) I won't be commuting again before my ...
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VZW should be able to tell you if towers are down that would be effecting any area. I would suggest trying to get an extension on your trial period if towers are down (in writing). If VZW suggest that no towers are down than I guess the coverage you now have is the coverage you will have.
Even if towers are not down the weather could be effecting the reception.
Even if towers are not down the weather could be effecting the reception.
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I know they trucked quite a few COWs & COLTs in, and I talked to a guy I sold a 3320 aircard to (moved to Tampa), and he says his service is working pretty well. He's got no power, no landline & no cable, but his cell service works.
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