Does Anyone Elses CellPhone Not Work In Their House?

[Lee]

Well, not so much not work at all, but will only work in certain areas of the house?

Im not really a big cell phone user but the last few days ive noticed that if im sat in the office, it works fine but if i go in to the garden, it doesnt get a signal and we're only talking a short distance away.

Does anyone else have these sort of issues with their cell phone?

Regards,

Lee

[LiveTwinksCam]

It should work in the house. Who is your cell provider?

[SPACE GLIDER]

IT works in my house now, but I know i used to have to step outside when I lived in the apartment

[gaybucks_chip]

AJ's house that he just sold (in a pretentious gated community) had NO cell coverage. My house in the Berkeley hills also had no cell coverage. But both of us have coverage at our current residences.

I think most areas are covered unless you're in the hills, or in an out-of-the-way area, or in a militant place like Berkeley, where the hippies get up in arms at the thought of a new cell tower.

[LiveTwinksCam]

The 2 carriers with the largest coverage are AT&T (gsm network) and Verizon (cdma network). I would try one of those 2 companies out and you will have coverage in your house. I would use AT&T if you plan on using your phone out of the country, like if you plan on going back to your homeland or going on a cruise. Verizon, Sprint and Alltel will not work outside of north America because they are on the cdma network.

Let me know who your carrier is and I can help you out more.

[LiveTwinksCam]

Also if it did work at your home and now it doesn't, that could be your phone and it could be defective.

[abostonboy]

In my loft in Boston. It works on one side but not on the other. I am not sure why. All I can think of is the brick walls as it's all open space.

I have both Verizon and Cingular. Both don't work in the same spot.

[LiveTwinksCam]

Normally if you don't have coverage in a certain spot, if one doesn't got ya covered the other will. Also you can make a complaint to the cell company, they will come out and investigate the area and possibly do something about it.

I currently have this problem in my area. Verizon has full coverage here at the house, but at&t is a little low here, because it's pulling from the tower 4 miles away. Towers only cover about 5 sq miles.

I switched from verizon because I got tired of their poor selection of phones and like at&t selection better. Verizon has the faster network but all of their phones look dorky, mainly the blackberry selection. Also I want my phone to work when I travel outside of the country.

So I am waiting on at&t to do something in the area, which they will. I have like 2 bars in the house, sometimes just 1, 3-4 bars outside of the house. It's working though!